Three years ago, I wrote a LinkedIn post asking the question, Can Procurement Collaborate Outside of a Crisis? in which I cited Kate Vitasek’s famous Minnesota I35-W bridge collapse rebuild story – https://bit.ly/3DEbO46 (see image below).
Then, in 2022, I wrote another post about Ottawa’s struggling LRT project titled – “Doors you couldn’t touch, switches that melted and wheels that turned square” ā Why do PPPs usually fail? – https://bit.ly/43zAne3Brigitte Pellerin š³ļøāš
To Sarah Cotgreave FCIPS’ point, these are just two of the many case references to government construction projects that raise two interesting questions: why does it take a crisis for a project to succeed, and why can’t we replicate and scale these successes?
A post earlier today by Bilawal Shahbaz Khan, Empowering Supply Chains: The Personal Journey of Knowledge Sharing, provides a good starting point. However, no matter what approach you take, if you do not operate using an “open-book framework in which risks and benefits are equally shared,” government projects will continue to struggle.
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What is the collaboration disconnect, and what can we do about it?
Posted on October 22, 2023
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Three years ago, I wrote a LinkedIn post asking the question, Can Procurement Collaborate Outside of a Crisis? in which I cited Kate Vitasek’s famous Minnesota I35-W bridge collapse rebuild story – https://bit.ly/3DEbO46 (see image below).
Then, in 2022, I wrote another post about Ottawa’s struggling LRT project titled – “Doors you couldn’t touch, switches that melted and wheels that turned square” ā Why do PPPs usually fail? – https://bit.ly/43zAne3Brigitte Pellerin š³ļøāš
To Sarah Cotgreave FCIPS’ point, these are just two of the many case references to government construction projects that raise two interesting questions: why does it take a crisis for a project to succeed, and why can’t we replicate and scale these successes?
A post earlier today by Bilawal Shahbaz Khan, Empowering Supply Chains: The Personal Journey of Knowledge Sharing, provides a good starting point. However, no matter what approach you take, if you do not operate using an “open-book framework in which risks and benefits are equally shared,” government projects will continue to struggle.
What are your thoughts?
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