Financial Intelligence A Complete Guide - 2020 Edition. Gerardus Blokdyk

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      9. How do you keep key subject matter experts in the loop?

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      10. What are the Financial intelligence use cases?

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      11. 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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      12. Do the problem and goal statements meet the SMART criteria (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound)?

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      13. Who is gathering information?

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      14. Has/have the customer(s) been identified?

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      15. What are the rough order estimates on cost savings/opportunities that Financial intelligence brings?

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      16. Are approval levels defined for contracts and supplements to contracts?

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      17. Why are you doing Financial intelligence and what is the scope?

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      18. What customer feedback methods were used to solicit their input?

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      19. Who are the Financial intelligence improvement team members, including Management Leads and Coaches?

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      20. What baselines are required to be defined and managed?

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      21. What is the definition of success?

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      22. What is out of scope?

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      23. Who is gathering Financial intelligence information?

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      24. Are there any constraints known that bear on the ability to perform Financial intelligence work? How is the team addressing them?

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      25. What sort of initial information to gather?

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      26. Are customer(s) identified and segmented according to their different needs and requirements?

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      27. How will variation in the actual durations of each activity be dealt with to ensure that the expected Financial intelligence results are met?

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      28. What are the Roles and Responsibilities for each team member and its leadership? Where is this documented?

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      29. Has the improvement team collected the ‘voice of the customer’ (obtained feedback – qualitative and quantitative)?

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      30. Are accountability and ownership for Financial intelligence clearly defined?

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      31. Is the improvement team aware of the different versions of a process: what they think it is vs. what it actually is vs. what it should be vs. what it could be?

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      32. Do you all define Financial intelligence in the same way?

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      33. Have all of the relationships been defined properly?

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      34. What would be the goal or target for a Financial intelligence’s improvement team?

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      35. Is the work to date meeting requirements?

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      36. Has the Financial intelligence work been fairly and/or equitably divided and delegated among team members who are qualified and capable to perform the work? Has everyone contributed?

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      37. What system do you use for gathering Financial intelligence information?

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      38. What scope do you want your strategy to cover?

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      39. Are different versions of process maps needed to account for the different types of inputs?

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      40. What specifically is the problem? Where does it occur? When does it occur? What is its extent?

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      41. Has a team charter been developed and communicated?

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      42. What are (control) requirements for Financial intelligence Information?

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      43. How would you define Financial intelligence leadership?

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      44. Is there a clear Financial intelligence case definition?

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      45. Will team members perform Financial intelligence work when assigned and in a timely fashion?

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      46. Is there a Financial intelligence management charter, including stakeholder case, problem and goal statements, scope, milestones, roles and responsibilities, communication plan?

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      47. How do you gather Financial intelligence requirements?

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      48. Is there a completed, verified, and validated high-level ‘as is’ (not ‘should be’ or ‘could be’) stakeholder process map?

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      49. Is there regularly 100% attendance at the team meetings? If not, have appointed substitutes attended to preserve cross-functionality and full representation?

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      50. How do you catch Financial intelligence definition inconsistencies?

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      51. Has a project plan, Gantt chart, or similar been developed/completed?

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      52. What are the boundaries of the scope? What is in bounds and what is not? What is the start point? What is the stop point?

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      53. Is special Financial intelligence user knowledge required?

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      54. Are all requirements met?

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      55. What knowledge or experience is required?

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      56. Is it clearly defined in and to your organization what you do?

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      57. What is the worst case scenario?

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      58. What is the scope of the Financial intelligence effort?

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      59. How often are the team meetings?

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      60. Are audit criteria, scope, frequency and methods defined?

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