The methods we use for the development of selection criteria may be able to save you months of preparation, ensure maximum stakeholder buy-in and protect you form legal challenges.
Using the collaborative environment of a workshop, we engage all key stakeholders in the process. By involving all participants in the decision-making, later dissent is eliminated, speeding the process of your procurement through the most stringent approvals regime.
Our facilitation is based on a very robust framework and uses techniques drawn from a wide range of disciplines to develop consensus at a detailed level. Where this proves difficult, proven conflict resolution tools are employed to ensure that differences are resolved, avoiding the need for compromise or majority voting. Because our methods have been developed over a thirty-year process, the atmosphere we manage to create is most conducive to high-performance decision-making. In the past delegates have used terms such as ‘Fun – in a serious sort of way’; ‘High-energy’; ‘Intense – but not stressful’.
By the end of a workshop – typically spanning several days – your team might expect to have formed a robust consensus on the most important criteria for selection of a supplier/solution combination, identified all significant stakeholders and listed the most important performance and behavioural constraints. Of course we don’t use gobbledygook like that in the workshop – we want to make sure that everybody understands what is going on…
After the workshop, we will both complete the evaluation criteria document and steer it round the review and approvals process, or work with your staff to do so – so that knowledge is transferred.
Further workshops may be helpful to gain full consensus on the weighting of criteria.
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