Business Acumen A Complete Guide - 2019 Edition
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Business Acumen A Complete Guide - 2019 Edition - Gerardus Blokdyk
Business Acumen
Complete Self-Assessment Guide
The guidance in this Self-Assessment is based on Business Acumen best practices and standards in business process architecture, design and quality management. The guidance is also based on the professional judgment of the individual collaborators listed in the Acknowledgments.
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Unless you’re talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions.
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Acknowledgments
This checklist was developed under the auspices of The Art of Service, chaired by Gerardus Blokdyk.
Representatives from several client companies participated in the preparation of this Self-Assessment.
In addition, we are thankful for the design and printing services provided.
Included Resources - how to access
Included with your purchase of the book is the Business Acumen Self-Assessment Spreadsheet Dashboard which contains all questions and Self-Assessment areas and auto-generates insights, graphs, and project RACI planning - all with examples to get you started right away.
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You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria:
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•The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard, and...
•Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation
•In-depth specific Checklists covering the topic
•Project management checklists and templates to assist with implementation
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Purpose of this Self-Assessment
This Self-Assessment has been developed to improve understanding of the requirements and elements of Business Acumen, based on best practices and standards in business process architecture, design and quality management.
It is designed to allow for a rapid Self-Assessment to determine how closely existing management practices and procedures correspond to the elements of the Self-Assessment.
The criteria of requirements and elements of Business Acumen have been rephrased in the format of a Self-Assessment questionnaire, with a seven-criterion scoring system, as explained in this document.
In this format, even with limited background knowledge of Business Acumen, a manager can quickly review existing operations to determine how they measure up to the standards. This in turn can serve as the starting point of a ‘gap analysis’ to identify management tools or system elements that might usefully be implemented in the organization to help improve overall performance.
How to use the Self-Assessment
On the following pages are a series of questions to identify to what extent your Business Acumen initiative is complete in comparison to the requirements set in standards.
To facilitate answering the questions, there is a space in front of each question to enter a score on a scale of ‘1’ to ‘5’.
1 Strongly Disagree
2 Disagree
3 Neutral
4 Agree
5 Strongly Agree
Read the question and rate it with the following in front of mind:
‘In my belief,
the answer to this question is clearly defined’.
There are two ways in which you can choose to interpret this statement;
1.how aware are you that the answer to the question is clearly defined
2.for more in-depth analysis you can choose to gather evidence and confirm the answer to the question. This obviously will take more time, most Self-Assessment users opt for the first way to interpret the question and dig deeper later on based on the outcome of the overall Self-Assessment.
A score of ‘1’ would mean that the answer is not clear at all, where a ‘5’ would mean the answer is crystal clear and defined. Leave emtpy when the question is not applicable or you don’t want to answer it, you can skip it without affecting your score. Write your score in the space provided.
After you have responded to all the appropriate statements in each section, compute your average score for that section, using the formula provided, and round to the nearest tenth. Then transfer to the corresponding spoke in the Business Acumen Scorecard on the second next page of the Self-Assessment.
Your completed Business Acumen Scorecard will give you a clear presentation of which Business Acumen areas need attention.
Business Acumen
Scorecard Example
Example of how the finalized Scorecard can look like:
Business Acumen
Scorecard
Your Scores:
BEGINNING OF THE
SELF-ASSESSMENT:
Table of Contents
About The Art of Service7
Acknowledgments8
Included Resources - how to access9
Your feedback is invaluable to us11
Purpose of this Self-Assessment11
How to use the Self-Assessment12
Business Acumen
Scorecard Example14
Business Acumen
Scorecard15
BEGINNING OF THE
SELF-ASSESSMENT:16
CRITERION #1: RECOGNIZE17
CRITERION #2: DEFINE:28
CRITERION #3: MEASURE:42
CRITERION #4: ANALYZE:56
CRITERION #5: IMPROVE:67
CRITERION #6: CONTROL:80
CRITERION #7: SUSTAIN:93
Business Acumen and Managing Projects, Criteria for Project Managers:136
1.0 Initiating Process Group: Business Acumen137
1.1 Project Charter: Business Acumen139
1.2 Stakeholder Register: Business Acumen141
1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: Business Acumen142
2.0 Planning Process Group: Business Acumen144
2.1 Project Management Plan: Business Acumen146
2.2 Scope Management Plan: Business Acumen148
2.3 Requirements Management Plan: Business Acumen150
2.4 Requirements Documentation: Business Acumen152
2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix: Business Acumen154
2.6 Project Scope Statement: Business Acumen156
2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log: Business Acumen158
2.8 Work Breakdown Structure: Business Acumen160
2.9 WBS Dictionary: Business Acumen162
2.10 Schedule Management Plan: Business Acumen164
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