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Agent procurement readiness test

Before you compare products, find out whether your organisation has defined enough of the job, evidence and authority to buy responsibly.

6Practical checks
3 minTo complete
4Readiness postures
0Vendor recommendations

Use this before drafting a brief or comparing vendors. Answer for the organisation as it operates today, not the controls you plan to add. Choose the statement nearest to your present position. A lower score is not a failure; it shows which work should happen before a sales process makes the decision harder to control.

1. How clearly is the decision or outcome defined?

2. What evidence would show that the agent improved the job?

3. Are its authority and stop conditions explicit?

4. Have data, access and supplier dependencies been mapped?

5. Could you reconstruct why a consequential action occurred?

6. Who owns performance, failure and revocation after purchase?