Commissioning – time to find a new word and/or new behaviours
The public sector is obsessed with jargon, and one particular term which is over-used and abused is ‘commissioning’. I have rarely encountered any two organisations which share a common definition, but most commonly, and incorrectly, it is used interchangeably as a term for procurement – perhaps with a softer hue, politically more acceptable or simply more sophisticated-sounding.
For those few...