118. What is the context?
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119. Are audit criteria, scope, frequency and methods defined?
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120. How does the Internal improvement manager ensure against scope creep?
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121. Is Internal improvement linked to key stakeholder goals and objectives?
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122. What information should you gather?
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123. How are consistent Internal improvement definitions important?
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124. What are (control) requirements for Internal improvement Information?
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125. How do you hand over Internal improvement context?
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126. Do the problem and goal statements meet the SMART criteria (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound)?
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127. Why are you doing Internal improvement and what is the scope?
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128. Who defines (or who defined) the rules and roles?
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129. Has anyone else (internal or external to the group) attempted to solve this problem or a similar one before? If so, what knowledge can be leveraged from these previous efforts?
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130. Who approved the Internal improvement scope?
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131. What gets examined?
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132. What Internal improvement requirements should be gathered?
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133. What baselines are required to be defined and managed?
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134. What defines best in class?
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135. Have specific policy objectives been defined?
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136. How do you gather Internal improvement requirements?
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Add up total points for this section: _____ = Total points for this section
Divided by: ______ (number of statements answered) = ______ Average score for this section
Transfer your score to the Internal improvement Index at the beginning of the Self-Assessment.
CRITERION #3: MEASURE:
INTENT: Gather the correct data. Measure the current performance and evolution of the situation.
In my belief, the answer to this question is clearly defined:
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3 Neutral
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1. How do you prevent mis-estimating cost?
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2. What are allowable costs?
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3. What are the uncertainties surrounding estimates of impact?
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4. What are the costs of delaying Internal improvement action?
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5. Are the Internal improvement benefits worth its costs?
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6. How will success or failure be measured?
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7. Are actual costs in line with budgeted costs?
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8. Are you able to realize any cost savings?
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9. What tests verify requirements?
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10. How do you verify and develop ideas and innovations?
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11. What are your customers expectations and measures?
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12. How do you verify the Internal improvement requirements quality?
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13. What is the total fixed cost?
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14. What are the current costs of the Internal improvement process?
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15. What is the root cause(s) of the problem?
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16. What are the costs and benefits?
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17. What is an unallowable cost?
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18. Who is involved in verifying compliance?
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19. Who should receive measurement reports?
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20. Are the measurements objective?
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21. What harm might be caused?
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22. Are indirect costs charged to the Internal improvement program?
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23. How will you measure success?
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24. What are the Internal improvement investment costs?
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25. Have you made assumptions about the shape of the future, particularly its impact on your customers and competitors?
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26. Where is the cost?
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27. What are you verifying?
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28. Which costs should be taken into account?
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29. What are the costs?
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30. How frequently do you verify your Internal improvement strategy?
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31. How do you verify if Internal improvement is built right?
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32. How sensitive must the Internal improvement strategy be to cost?
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33. How do you verify and validate the Internal improvement data?
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34. What are the estimated costs of proposed changes?
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35. How do you verify performance?
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36. What are the Internal improvement key cost drivers?
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