the scenario:
As lead on the conceptual design effort, you have the responsibility to develop a winning proposal. Unfortunately, your client has a history of changing the rules at the last minute, and...

Your team put together a great design package. At the pre-submittal review you learned that your client was under pressure to change the emphasis on the project. You could easily enough generate a new concept based on that emphasis but how were you to decide which concept top submit for the proposal. You mentioned the problem to a consultant you had brought on board and they mentioned Consensus.

what could consensus do:
Help by implement a process to preemptively consider the effects of "rule changes" on the design concepts.

This would probably involve an Intervention scenario due to time constraints and the need for direct involvement in the process by Consensus. The first step would be to institute the Consensus Technology Method™ as the preferred approach to concept evaluation. Then, we would define a dual set of criteria. The first would deal with the design concepts themselves. The second would focus on the client's potential groundrule changes. We would lead the team through the initial concept selection work. then we would assist in assessing the effect of the changing groundrules on the relative merits of the concepts. The goal would be to determine that concept which was least sensitive to the changing groundrules, and yet, met the basic requirements for the project.

a potential outcome:
Your entry wins the competition even though at the last minute the emphasis changed from cost driven to community issue driven.

You showed the client not only the preferred concept but the way that potential future changes would affect the selection… all of which could be accommodated in the concept you submitted thanks to the involvement of Consensus. Not only did you win the proposal but the client awarded you their highest quality award.

* Based on actual experience using the Consensus Technology approach to define the appropriate direction for a major research project where the emphasis shifted from potential cost reduction to maximizing the innovative process content of the effort