Recommendation Reports

Time to Tell a Story

The time arrives with many improvement projects when you need to make recommendations.

These recommendations need to clearly address the root causes you have identified. Recommendations which are half-baked or proclaim magical solutions are worthless, if not dangerous.

Beyond a simple list of recommendations, your project team needs to tell the story of your project. This story needs to come to life in a well written recommendation report.

One effective approach for crafting a recommendation report includes the following six part format:

1. Executive Summary
2. Project Overview
3. Description of Options
4. Evaluation of Options
5. Recommendation
6. Appendix

Let’s look closer at each section.

Read the rest of the article, by Mike Loughrin, at: Recommendation Reports.