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Define Idea Alignment and Tracking Factors
The Demand Center is a dashboard for reviewing and analyzing your business ideas. This dashboard provides views and metrics such as cost and ETC on which you can prioritize your ideas. Use this dashboard for the following:
The Demand Center dashboard includes the following tabs:
To view information about the Demand Center dashboard, complete the following:
Note: See the Demand Management User Guide for more information.
Note: See the Resource Management User Guide for more information.
Use the Submit Ideas to:
The ideas created from the page are referenced in portlets on the Demand Center dashboard.
This tab includes the following portlets:
As an idea requestor, use the Ideas page to create new ideas and submit them for approval. You can also approve, reject, or mark existing ideas for deletion from this portlet.
See the Demand Management User Guide for more information.
Follow these steps:
The overview page appears.
The submit ideas page appears.
The create page appears.
The Ideas Categorized By Type portlet displays the percentage of ideas for the following idea types in a pie chart format:
If no type is selected for an idea, it is displayed as Undefined. Each pie slice in the pie chart represents an idea type. You can filter on idea status to see how many ideas are approved or not approved for each idea type.
Each business alignment and tracking value that you define for an idea is associated with a number. All the numbers together are used to determine an average which is then considered the Business Alignment score for the idea.
Follow these steps:
The ideas page appears.
The properties page appears.
The alignment and tracking properties page appears.
See the Demand Management User Guide for more information.
Displays the amount of business value (high, medium, low) associated with the idea. Click the drop-down menu to select an option. After you save, the stoplight color changes as follows:
Displays the amount of sponsorship (high, medium, low) available for the idea. Click the drop-down menu to select an option. After you save, the stoplight color changes as follows:
Displays the technology compliance status of the idea. Click the drop-down menu to select an option. After you save, the stoplight color changes as follows:
Use the Demand Ranking page to view your ideas ranked by their business alignment rating. The page includes the Demand Ranking portlet that lists the highest rated ideas first.
To display information in the Demand Ranking page:
The Demand Ranking portlet lists ideas ranked by their business alignment values.
Use the Budget and Resource filter fields to highlight ideas matching the specified budget and ETC amounts. The Running Total columns continue adding up the budget and resource ETC amounts for each row in the portlet.
This portlet provides the following details about the listed ideas:
Indicates that the idea must be included on the list display when you filter ideas.
Displays the name of the idea. Click the idea link to open the idea properties page and edit the idea.
Displays the name of the person who requested the idea. Click the requestor link to open the resource properties page and edit the requestor information.
Displays the planned cost or budgeted amount for the idea. Click the budget link to open the budget page of ideas properties page and edit the budget properties for the idea.
Displays the running total of the budget amount including the amount from the previous rows. For example, if the portlet lists three ideas with the following budget amounts: 1,000, 2,000, and 3,000, the running total on each row is as follows:
Displays the ETC amount for the idea team.
Displays the running total of the ETC hours including the amount from previous rows.
Displays a stoplight indicating the business alignment value for the idea. The stoplight is based on the Business Alignment stoplight on the properties page of alignment and tracking.
Stoplights:
Use Demand Analysis to analyze the business ideas by comparing the cost with the return on investment (ROI) for each idea. The page includes the Demand Analysis portlet.
To display information in the Demand Analysis page, define the following information for the ideas:
The Demand Analysis portlet displays cost, ROI, and business alignment information for ideas in a bubble chart format.
Each bubble on the bubble chart represents an idea. The size of the bubble represents the cost and the color represents the return on investment for that idea. The larger the bubble, the greater the cost for that idea.
The bubble colors indicate the following:
The X-axis of the chart displays the start dates of the ideas. The Y-axis displays the business alignment ranking for the ideas using the following background colors:
Mouse-over a bubble to view the following information for an idea:
Click a bubble to open the budget page of idea properties to edit the planned cost and benefit information for the idea.
Use Demand Worksheet to get the latest status on your ideas in terms of their approval status, schedule, cost, ETC, and business compliance. You can also get a summarized view of total idea costs grouped by categories.
This page includes the following portlets:
The Demand Summary portlet provides a summary of the total idea costs. This portlet includes the following fields:
Displays the following rows of information:
Displays the total planned cost for a specific group of ideas.
Displays the total resource ETC for a specific group of ideas.
The Incoming Demand portlet lists all the ideas in the pipeline.
The portlet provides the following information about the listed ideas:
Displays the idea status as follows:
Displays the name of the idea. Click the idea link to open the ideas properties page and edit the idea.
Displays the date of starting with the idea.
Displays the planned cost amount for the idea.
Displays the total ETC hours based on the resources added to the idea team.
Displays a stoplight based on the value of the Business Alignment stoplight that displays on the alignment and tracking page of ideas properties.
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