I decided to go over lessons learned from my experience with several RFP projects over the last few years. I learned a lot from an excellent mentor and have added my own touches to create a process and documents that have been highly effective in a broad range of situations. This provides a form of RFP tutorial that is highly recommended for anyone going through one for the first time.
You can find it here: https://youtu.be/dx8vlSoUXs0
Whether you are an employee, entrepreneur, contractor, or other, there comes the point where you need to scale your abilities. We can only do so much on our own. Thus, the need for extending effectiveness arises as soon as we try to do anything of substance. The trick is in finding ways to train others to produce a quality that is close enough to ours. A Specialist Problem It goes without saying that this problem is one faced by specialists …
Sooner or later we all need to solicit proposals that provide solutions to a problem. This might be a request for an application, a service, or products. It should come as no surprise that an effective RFP process accurately defines the problem. However, there is more detail that makes up an effective RFP. What is a Well Defined Problem? The challenge of a technical RFP is often the language required to create one. The technical staff provide input (or possibly the entire …
