Partnering is a long-term commitment between SSI, the client and contractors needed for the purpose of achieving specific business objectives. The desired outcome is maximization of the effectiveness of each participant's resources. It is often used in construction projects. Partnering assists you in aligning the efforts of many companies and individuals, often with dissimilar objectives, toward working together to successfully complete your project.

The partnering process design provides the framework for the key individuals working on the project to create a plan to successfully manage the "human structure" of this project and to determine the most effective systems, decision-making processes and procedures they should use. Participants in the partnering sessions are asked in various ways what they, as a diverse group of companies and individuals with varying goals and objectives, need to collectively focus on to meet the project's budget and schedule and their own key objectives.

The Three Phases of the SSI Partnering Process

Partnering Process Design

The design of the partnering sessions ensures that the partnering process addresses the specific needs of the project and its teams and concludes with an audit of the partnering effort. The partnering process design produces a series of partnering meetings, both small and large, that focus the partnering efforts to help ensure the success of your project.

Partnering Sessions

We understand that every project has different needs and thus we adjust our design accordingly. However, every project has several components that we typically explore, define and incorporate into the partnering sessions.

The results of the Partnering sessions are:

• Thorough and complete "buy-in" to the partnering concept
• Identification of the barriers to success
• Identification of potential actions
• Projects completed on time, within budget

The Final Push

One of the most common barriers to success is the management of the final push on final completion activities. To the extent that the core team can agree on the process and how it will be managed, the final push can be successfully completed. Action plans are created in this phase that when implemented address the specific final push barriers that must be resolved for the project to be completed on time.

The outcome of this approach is large projects completed on time and within budget.

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