Maximum benefits are realized where the form of contract is compatible with the Partnering / Team approach, limiting the potential for conflict, particularly over "compensation events" or claims where money is involved.

Minimum losses are realized through effective communication between all members of the team, the development of trust, and a focus on common objectives, both for all members of the team and for the project as a whole. This applies also to businesses and to programs of work.

It is very much up to the team itself to make Partnering work, and to do this, it is beneficial for it to focus on Key Performance Indicators or similar to review at regular intervals, establishing trends in the team's performance, and enabling the team to evaluate how well it is actually performing. Weaknesses can be identified, analyzed and corrected. Benchmarking against others, either using national standards or against other specific teams, can be undertaken.

"Project proving", towards the end of a project, is important to enable the Project Team to pass the finished product on to the client organization or end user so that project objectives are met in a timely manner. 

The concepts of Integrated Project Teams (sometimes called Virtual Companies or Virtual Organizations) and Integrated Supply Chains are starting to be promoted in the United Kingdom through the Strategic Forum for Construction "Integration Toolkit". The TEAM FOCUS Group supports this approach as a means to developing more effective ways of achieving optimum benefit from the Partnering approach. Roll-out events are planned - see our Integration Toolkit page.