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The weighted scorecard

A scorecard is the structured form a reviewer fills in to score an idea. Every criterion in the idea's category appears once, with its weight visible, and you score each one on a 1 to 5 scale.

What a scorecard contains

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For an idea in Process Improvement, a scorecard might list six criteria across four groups:

| Group | Criterion | Weight | |---|---|---:| | Impact | Efficiency Gain | 0.250 | | Feasibility | Implementation Effort | 0.150 | | Strategic Fit | Alignment | 0.200 | | Impact | Affected Scope | 0.150 | | Feasibility | Resource Availability | 0.150 | | Stakeholder Value | Employee Benefit | 0.100 |

You enter a score for each, with an optional comment. The system computes the weighted total automatically; you don't add anything up by hand.

Why weights matter

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A weight controls how much a criterion contributes to the total.

  • A 5 on a criterion weighted 0.250 adds 1.250 to the total.
  • A 5 on a criterion weighted 0.100 adds 0.500 to the total.

Two perfect scores don't contribute the same amount. The criterion with the heavier weight drives more of the decision. This is the point: weights let your workspace say what matters most for a given category.

For the full math, see How scoring math works.

Active criteria sum to 1.000

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Inside a category, the active criteria's weights sum to 1.000, with a 0.001 tolerance for rounding. This is enforced when admins save changes.

A weighted total therefore lands between 1.0 and 5.0, displayed to one decimal in the UI.

You don't change weights as a reviewer

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Reviewers score; admins set up criteria and weights. If you think a weight is wrong, raise it with whoever runs the workspace. Don't try to compensate by under-scoring or over-scoring; that distorts the signal for everyone.

The snapshot

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When an idea is submitted, the criteria for its category are snapshotted onto the idea. Two effects:

  • The set of criteria you see on a scorecard is the set that was active at submission. Adding a criterion later doesn't add it to existing ideas.
  • The weight on each criterion is also frozen on the score row. Tuning weights later doesn't rewrite past scores.

So when you come back to a year-old idea, the scorecard reflects the rubric the workspace was using a year ago, not the rubric today.

What's next

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