Value, Perception & Insight
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Francis Murphy
Best Value Officer
Southend-on-Sea Borough Council
Checklists
Checklists can be incredibly valuable; for example read The Six Most Important Things I Must Do Tomorrow to see just how valuable. For example you can use checklists to help analyse supply markets, write tender documents or analyse spend data. They are, and should be, used at all levels. I have seen high-profile fund managers use checklists to help them decide whether or not to invest hundreds of millions and you always see them being used by people shopping.
I use checklists constantly, some are unique for a specific event or activity and others are more generic, they help me cope with my human inadequacies so I can:
- Prevent avoidable failures
- Cope with the volume and complexity of what I know and what I need to know
- Improve my clients' performance, even if I did get out of bed on the wrong side
- Enable clients to operate at a consistently high quality
- Refine the methods I use for specific activities as I learn more, for example Analysing Spend Data
Checklists provide immediate and practical support. The brevity of a checklist does mean that you need a reasonable grasp of the topic, activity or process to get the best from it.