This book offers a method, called FOCUS, for the structured assessment of new business opportunities. Using FOCUS enables managers to increase the effectiveness of opportunity assessment resulting in a higher rate of opportunities won. The quality of new projects will improve and sales channel conflicts, wasted resources and financial risk will be minimised. Based on the Simple Multi-Attribute Rating Technique (SMART), FOCUS provides a straightforward decision analysis process that enables all members of the bid team to fully understand the requirements of the opportunity and the...