Parties involved with consultancy work

I was trying to get my head round the motivations on the various parties involved, so sketched what I see as the pressures on the four main parties involved:

• ministers,
• officials,
• consultants
• suppliers

It's the media that start the pressure, through demanding accountability when a newsworthy story arises when something goes wrong (no news is good news) and there's fault of blame to be assigned.

In such a situation of blame, the responsible minister has to stand up in Parliament and explain his decisions. I need to edit the diagram to show that pressure on him/her.

The motivation on the consultancy and supplier firms might be to improve project outcomes so that the company stays in business and preferably improves business. The diagram doesn’t show that either.

What about the client? Government clients are officials, civil servants, bureaucrats, who may work in hierarchies though the culture varies with government department. That hierarchy brings its own forces and accountabilities, but the top accountability comes from the pressure from ministers, who must not be embarrassed, who don’t want to have to stand up in Parliament, so the official must choose a strategy that reduces the chances of embarrassing accountability. I don’t think the diagram shows that either.