180 Selection Process Automation

180 Selection Process Automation

We have been doing selection projects for 20 years and have fine-tuned the methodology over the years to be as efficient and effective as possible. But that was before Claude. We have now changed how we do it, not what we do. Improvements include:

  • Maintain a requirements library across multiple industries. In the past, when working in Excel for a specific client, we did not concern ourselves whether another RFP contained a similar or the same requirement. Now, we need to merge these requirements and group them logically or the requirements library will become too big and cumbersome to find requirements.
  • Link RFPs to the requirements library when they contain identical requirements.
  • Update the requirements library from business process reviews and previous RFPs identifying identical requirements, new requirements, and wording changes allowing us to grow the requirements library with each new project.
  • Generate RFPs.
  • Vendors respond to RFPs online (not spreadsheets) and the system defaults to their previous response for identical questions or requirements from previous responses to RFP. For example

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  • Generate analysis of vendor responses to RFPs
  • Automated evaluation of the demonstration based on the script and what was demonstrated.

I, Michael Burns, was a software developer in a past life, but hung up my developer skates years ago. I am skating again and mostly loving it. We can’t wait to show you our new tools.

Michael Burns

Written by Michael Burns

Michael Burns is both founder and president of 180 Systems. Michael has provided consulting services to a wide variety of industries including manufacturing, construction, financial, distribution, retail, third-party logistics, professional services, real estate and not-for-profit organizations. Michael is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) and is certified as a PMP (Project Manager Professional) and as a Certified Information Technology Professional (CITP).

Michael has written extensively for a number of professional magazines and spoken at IT conferences. He was also a part-time professor at University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson). Michael’s experience also includes software development, project management and accounting.