Weighting Objectives Across a Strategy

How to:

A scorecard, which represents a strategy, is composed of multiple perspectives, each of which is composed of multiple objectives. Objective weighting controls the percentage that each objective represents as part of the overall strategy. You can adjust the individual weights for any of the objectives, or you can let PMF automatically balance the weights to give each objective an equal share of the overall strategy.

The weighting percentage can have no decimal places (integral weighting) or 1 or 2 decimal places of precision. The number of significant decimal places on the weighting panel is set by an administrator. For more information, see Performance Management Framework Administrator.


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Procedure: How to Weight Objectives Across a Strategy

To set the priority of objectives across a strategy, perform the following steps.

  1. In the Author tab, click Scorecards.
  2. Select a scorecard, for example, CenturyCorp Card.
  3. In the Edit Scorecard panel, click the Adjust Objective Weights button.

    The Objective Weights panel opens.

    Objective Weights form

  4. Click and drag the sliders to re-assign the weights, or type the weighting percentage in the input field.

    Tip: Typed percentages are recognized when you move the mouse off the input field and click it.

    Note that the weights are automatically balanced across all the objectives.

    The Total Weighting Percentage is displayed at the bottom of the weights column as a guideline when you make percentage adjustments.

    Click Re-balance weights to assign an equal percentage to all objectives.

    Note: If you do not want to re-balance a particular objective as you drag the sliders or type percentages, click the Lock button to the left of the objective to lock the weight of that objective.

  5. Click Save to save your changes.

    If you try to save weights that do not add up to 100%, PMF automatically adjusts the total weighting and displays the following message.

    Error message

  6. Click the Scorecard button to return to the Edit Scorecard panel.

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