For the Risk or Reward regime to create outstanding outcomes, considerable time needs to be devoted in the alliance development processes to defining what an objective performance of this standard looks like. For example, there may need to be a systematic way of measuring whether this obligation has been met, with a financial consequence for an alliance Participant who achieves or fails to achieve the requisite standard of performance built into the Risk or Reward regime. Also, care must be taken to define outstanding outcomes for each project and not just replicate those from previous projects. This is essential for ensuring that continuous improvement or year-on-year improvement is recognised and is not inappropriately rewarded as an outstanding outcome.