Most competency authors have therefore been left with an impossible choice:
• Accept the major limitations of publishing them as PDFs, to be printed at each organisation, at which point they are out of your control – no way to update them, no data or reporting coming back, and no way to ensure the paper forms are used correctly
• Face the unfeasible cost of developing a bespoke system to oversee the process digitally (which even then will be seen as yet another stand-alone system for each organisation that needs to use it)
So despite all these efforts, much of that hard work goes to waste, and the original vision and intent of the competency authors never fully gets translated into the skills of the professionals on the ground.