Behavioural Evaluation is Evolving. Is Your Procurement Process Keeping Up?
Most behavioural evaluation assesses one half of the future delivery relationship. Why the client, the system around award and the period after it matter just as much.
Insights
Perspectives from the ODAPTIC team on alliance culture, collaborative delivery and what actually makes integrated project teams perform.
Corporate Strategic Partnerships: The Missing Capability
Why partnerships deserve their own discipline: swift trust, earned trust, mechanics and dynamics, the stages partnerships move through, and what a collaboration coach does.
The Active Client: The Missing Link in Collaborative Project Delivery
Collaborative contracts do not create collaboration on their own. What an Active Client does, and why major projects need a Client Team Development Plan.
The Industry Matured. The Team Coach Role Didn't.
Alliancing created the team coach role twenty years ago. Team coaching has since become a profession with its own standards, and the way we procure coaches has not caught up.
The Charter Trap
Most project charters are completed and never used again. Why that happens, and how to design culture into the way a project is governed.
What is Great Project Leadership in an Alliance or Collaborative Context?
The six factors that qualify someone for the role, the eight disciplines that define greatness in it, and the one element most competency models miss.
Stop Measuring Engagement. Start Measuring Performance.
Engagement surveys tell you how people feel, not why projects succeed. What performance measurement needs to do instead.
Alliance Culture Lessons: Ten Things We Still Get Wrong (And Have No Excuse For)
We've been around long enough. Here are the things our industry needs to stop pretending are working.