Cost and excellence, rather than brand and prestige, should be paramount when choosing cross-functional teams. Opting for accredited “excellence” that encompasses coordination and project management standards may be a trend in the future. In large turnkey projects, the size of the brand and project, not the size of the sponsor or project manager, are critical.
In complex litigation, in sophisticated transactions, in industrial operations – mining, environmentally contentious industries – do not improvise or choose from simplistic criteria (the well-worn world panels).
It is better to go deeper and get it right with the coordinators and executors, with the coordinator being in charge of integrating the deficiencies (generally of a purely accidental nature, e.g. “coexistence skills”) of a local specialist with attributes of excellence, experience and probity.
