About Us
Organizations across North America work with ProGrid Evaluation Solutions to establish and optimize their R&D, grants and contributions, and technology transfer/commercialization programs. With ProGrid consulting and software solutions, individuals and organizations can make the right decision with improved efficiency, transparency, and confidence.
Since 1996, ProGrid consultants have helped a wide variety of clients including corporations, government agencies, universities, hospitals, and non-profit foundations. Our clients must make complex decisions based on expert knowledge, working within limited time frames and budgets, and guided by organizational goals and values. They must make difficult choices, such as which technologies and products to invest in, which proposals to fund, and how to make sound evaluations based on intangible factors.
ProGrid consultants work with all the key stakeholders to clearly define the task at hand, articulate the relevant criteria, develop applications and ranking systems, and implement the processes to gather, compile, compare, and present the results. The results can be seen in better funding applications, reduced time demands on expert evaluators, and a transparent and comprehensive record of exactly how and why each decision is made.
ProGrid software has been developed to support these decision processes. With ProGrid software, organizations can work with the criteria and ratings systems they have developed with our professional consulting, or they can define their own criteria.
Overview of the ProGrid Methodology
Why is 'A' at the bottom of the ladder?
Articles on ProGrid:
- Using Explicit Rubrics to Pick your Grant Partners
- Improving AHFMR's Award Selection Process
- Evaluating Intellectual Capital
- Performance Management - The Forestry Chronicle
- Business Plan Evaluations by University Students
- Automating Vendor Selection - Summit Magazine
- Automated Services Procurement - FMI Journal
- Improving Vendor Selection - Summit Magazine
- Measuring the Performance of Charitable Foundations
- Using Explicit Rubrics for Opportunity Assessment
Letters of Appreciation:
Related sites:
- ProGrid.com – tools for facilitating evaluation & decision making
- www.ClemBowman.info – ProGrid’s founder, Dr. Clement W. Bowman
- Visionaries - a screencast of the visionaries of the Oil Sands.