Assessing Ideas

Specifiying the Criteria

Before proposing projects to fully flesh-out an idea or group of ideas, innovation facilitators would like experts to do a high-level vetting of the ideas against a configurable and weighted set of criteria.

To specify these criteria, do the following:

1. Click on Manage Idea Criteria under See All Members.



Click Manage Idea Criteria

2. A panel is opened, where the idea assessment criteria can be specified. Click on Add new criterion.



Click Add new criterion

3. Enter details on the fields. Each criteria has a name, a type and a weight. Initially there are two criteria types: rating and number. The sum of the criteria (times the weight) comprises the score of the idea.



Enter criteria details

Assessing the Ideas

Once the criteria (at least one) are defined, sort options display in the Related Ideas area. There is one sort link for each criteria and one for overall points. A points box appears on each related idea as well as an Evaluate link.

Click Evaluate

1. Click on Evaluate. In the displayed area, input the assessment data.



Input the assessment data

2. Click on the appropriate star for the rating-based criteria and enter a number of the value for the number-based criteria.
3. Click Save.



Enter the rating and save

Once the data is entered the points are calculated. This idea is worth 1910 points which comes from:

• 1000 points for carbon footprint reduction: 100 tons carbon foot print saving times a weight of 10
• -100 points for Savings: -10,000 savings (this is a cost, obviously) times a weight of 10
• 10 points for Revenue: $1K revenue increase times a weight of 10
• 1000 points for Feasibility: full five stars (10 points per half star) times a weight of 100

Idea rated

Multiple expert assessments

In the 4.5.2 version, we introduced the ability for one or more experts to evaluate each Idea in the Related Ideas list. If more than one expert evaluates an Idea, the total points for the individual criteria as well as the total overall points for the Idea is averaged by the total number of evaluations.

Initiating multiple assessment

Once an expert creates their own evaluation, the individual evaluations of the other experts are visible.

The evaluation of other experts are visible

Reviewing the assessments

To review the evaluations by overall points and the various criteria, click on the appropriate filter.

By Footprint:

Review by Footprint

By Points:

Review by Points