How We Work
We work with people, not around them – our approach is participatory and inclusive, bringing together diverse perspectives to shape practical solutions that reflect real needs. We are open and honest in how we engage, creating space for constructive challenge, shared learning and informed decision-making.
We move iteratively and incrementally, testing ideas, learning quickly and adapting as we go. We build collaborative relationships based on trust, clarity and mutual accountability. Above all, we focus on outcomes and impact: what changes, for whom, and why it matters.
Our work is pragmatic and balanced, helping organisations respond to today’s pressures while building the capability, confidence and conditions to anticipate longer-term transformation.
Agile Procurement
and Contracting
Adaptive buying for flexible, outcome-focused delivery
Applying agile approaches to procurement and contracting fundamentally transforms the profession, shifting it from rigid, linear steps to a flexible, incremental, and innovation-enhancing mindset. Agile Procurement moves away from traditional, paper-heavy cycles toward Minimum Viable Procurement (MVP), where solutions are co-created and tested in short, manageable phases with user and delivery communities.
By prioritising multidisciplinary and cross-functional collaboration and Minimum Viable Governance, Agile Procurement empowers organisations to adapt to changing needs in real-time, reducing financial risk and ensuring that complex systems and contracts deliver genuine value for both current and future generations. This Agile Procurement Framework reduces risk, enhances transparency and ensures world-class public sector procurement, meeting evolving user needs through collaboration and market engagement.
AI Procurement Standards
Smart AI governance for maximising
socially-impactful procurement outcomes
Posterity Global's AI Procurement Standards prioritise intelligent and proactive risk management through radical transparency, anticipatory and participatory approaches, and human-centric oversight. These standards champion digital sovereignty and sustainability, promoting independent audits and generational impact assessments, and living governance models to monitor real-time performance.
By focusing on open standards, interoperability and exit-readiness, our framework ensures AI procurement and contracting remains ethical, resilient and accountable, delivering long-term value for both people and planet.
Digital Commercial Lifecycle®
Posterity Global’s Digital Commercial Lifecycle®
and Guiding Principles
Posterity Global's Digital Commercial Lifecycle® places public value and well-being impact at the core of all activities.
It’s this focus on purpose that drives the practices, procedures and processes to achieve impactful outcomes for communities, helping Posterity Global’s clients modernise their commercial and procurement capabilities to be fit for the digital era.
Each stage of the Digital Commercial Lifecycle® has an associated set of Guiding Principles to help Posterity Global’s clients to practically implement modern,
digital-era commercial and procurement practices, procedures and processes to achieve impactful outcomes of public value and positive well-being impact.
Posterity Global’s Lifecycle®
Stages and Guiding Principles
| Lifecycle Stage | Guiding Principles |
| Plan and Prepare | 1. Understand stakeholders’ needs and their inter-generational users’ needs |
| 2. Learn from the past and present, while systematically thinking about and acting on all areas of public governance, in inclusive, long-term and anticipatory ways |
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| 3. Engage genuinely, honestly, openly, constructively and iteratively with the supply ecosystem | |
| Procure and Contract | 4. Reuse, buy and/or build what’s needed to meet stakeholders’ and their inter-generational users’ needs |
| 5. Focus on inclusive and long-term social value for money, and agility through public contracts | |
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6. Invest public funds through contracts that: a. are adaptable by design and accommodate innovation |
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| Mobilise, deliver, learn and exit |
7. Set up new relationships for success from the first day |
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8. Manage and maintain constructive and collaborative relationships throughout the life of contracts, which jointly focus on: a. successful service delivery |
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| 9. Proactively enact smooth and managed exits on completion of service delivery when contracts end | |
| 10. Full post-delivery assessment of the economic, environmental, social and cultural impacts and realisation of well-being benefits |
Digital Commercial Principles
Shifting from process-driven compliance
to Impactful Outcome-Led Delivery
| Principle 1 Be open |
• Don’t wait to be engaged, engage early and discuss the undiscussable • Show and tell people about procurement |
| Principle 2 Get involved |
• Be part of a multi-disciplinary team and don’t be afraid to ask for help • Communicate the 'done', 'doing', 'to do' |
| Principle 3 Know the need |
• Immerse yourself in what is required • Understand the options to fulfil the need |
| Principle 4 Communicate |
• Do more face-to-face (simple language) talking – discussion is healthy • Continuously celebrate success and promote the stuff you are doing |
| Principle 5 Simplify |
• Reduce the number of things you do – the minimum can be acceptable • Challenge the sequence of events, make things easy to read/useable |
| Principle 6 Change |
• Accept things change – embrace new ideas and learn • Be adaptable (don’t just say no) |
| Principle 7 Market |
• Continuously engage with the market – listen and learn • Embrace innovation and new ideas |