Pain is Inevitable

Managing a serious selection & evaluation project is always demanding:

• Understand your own organization - collating and prioritizing requirement from stakeholders
• Understanding the industry - knowing what questions to ask vendors
• Interpreting vendors's proposals

Suffering is a Choice

Then there are the administrative challenges:

• Pulling together questions from previous projects
• Keeping stakeholders informed about the process
• Communicating with respondents - especially in regulated environments
• Fighting with spreadsheets and emails to collate and score responses
• Demonstrating impartiality and maintaining a transparent audit trail