Proposal Writing – Choosing Your Proposal Team – Gordon or Winston?

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Listening to ‘The Brown Years’ recently, about ex-British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, on BBC Radio  – with its catalogue of ‘who didn’t get on with who, who was incompetent, and who didn’t suffer fools gladly’ etc, I was reminded of how often the success of a major undertaking depends on the careful selection of the [...]

Opportunity Qualification: 5 ways to ensure an opportunity is worth chasing

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For business development managers the problem is not that there are no opportunities but that there are too many potential opportunities to chase with only a limited amount of finance and resource available to prosecute them successfully.  A key tactic for successful business capture is to only fight the battles you believe you are going [...]

Business Development 12-Module Online Course Launch

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I’ve been very pleased with the level of interest shown in the online course.  More people are subscribing to the mail list every day, which is gratifying.  I’m now in a position to set the launch date: 18th May at 1400 BST. Membership is restricted  for this first launch to ensure that a quality of service [...]

Proposal Costing – How to hit a win price

Start with a WBS, then be innovative and creative to remove cost

All proposal cost is bad, but some is very useful.  At least if you, as a bid and capture manager, don’t want to lose your job! During a relatively recent bid support job, at a blue-chip company, I became aware of concerns within the team about cost, risk, double dipping  etc.  I had not been [...]

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