CGOV.15:4.3 - Construct and compare the relevant alternatives

Keep the adequate parts of the existing method. Locate the missing operation and identify ways to supply it. Current corporate practice, another company’s method or a newly constructed combination can provide an alternative; establish why its operations answer this difficulty.

Compare the alternatives in the receiving situation. Ask what information reaches deliberation, which participants can contribute, what conditions are preserved, what result becomes obtainable, and what effort or delay follows. Use CGOV.4–CGOV.10 for the particular contribution, oversight, conflict, information, control or assurance work that an alternative needs.

A method used in another company can supply a construction without supplying authority to perform it here. Recover differences in ownership and control, protected interests, applicable rules and available contributors when they change the operation. Use ME.6, Compare Method-Architecture Alternatives and Simultaneous Enactment Conflicts, when alternatives connect these contributions differently or move material burden between participants.

Where several alternatives make different worthwhile trade-offs, retain more than one with distinct uses. A short method for an ordinary delegated matter and a more demanding method for an interested transaction can both remain useful.