I have been browsing through several of the proposals that some of my RDA to LEP LinkedIn Group members have been kindly collecting and posting on their web sites. There are over 50 submissions so I just checked out a few. Even so one aspect of this process hit me from the word go.
Perhaps my quality management background is too much to the fore, but surely to goodness wasn’t this the time to have a standard document for the LEP teams to complete. There are all sorts of designs and presentations in the mix so the process of assessing them is naturally going to be subject to some considerable variation because of all the different input formats. This naturally begs the question as to how consistent the outputs will be. Is it asking too much that when we are attempting to reduce waste that the very vehicle that is offered up as the alternative at least takes this on board in its own processes and help sets the benchmark.
Now I know there are advantages is allowing individual flair and style to be permitted in presentations. However, with the tight timescale in place in my humble opinion it should have been a priority to facilitate a standard appraisal system for everyone’s benefit . . . . . or is it just me?
