Scorecard 2.0: Apply weightings by group

Would love this addition as well. It would also making training and changes to the score card much more manageable and consistent. Right now, if you add a new measure for support each measure of the entire scorecard needs to be adjusted in order to keep the overall support health as 20% of the overall score. This would allow you to focus on the changes only within the support group. 

Hey Jeff,

One way to get this to work today is to set the weights as follows (top to bottom in your screenshot):

25
25
25
25
25
25
25
25 (first 8 dimensions each at 25 points for 200 points total for support)
100
100 (both PARS dimensions each at 100 points for 200 points total for PARS)
100 (invoice aging)
100 (post implementation survey)
40
40
40
40
40 (5 product use dimensions for 40 points each totaling 200 for product)
200 (CSM assessment)

This will give you a points total of 1000 and doesn't need decimals. You'll note that no matter how many points you have total in the left column, the weights will prorate each dimension so that the total points will equal 100%. 

Ok but it would be so much easier to be able to say Support = 20%, Adopti20%. We should be going towards ease of use.

But thank you for the interim workaround!

I think this still has a lot of complexity if a new measure is added or if a customer does not have a value for one of the measures within a group. Say you have 8 support measures and add another but want to keep the impact that the support group has on the overall score to 20%. The first thought would be to adjust all the support measures to 22.2 to get to 200. However, decimals are not an option requiring you to review all measures and adjust accordingly. 

The other kicker is how the overall score is impacted if one of the measures is null or N/A. Say two of the support measures in the example above are null for whatever reason. All of a sudden, all your weights are thrown off and support is no longer 20% of the overall score. 

Agree!

Hey Samantha, you're correct that if a new measure is added, there needs to be some thought into the weights within that group. 

In the case where you had 8 support measures and add another but still want to keep the overall contribution of support to 20%, you'd have to subtract points from the other 8 measures to have enough points to distribute to the new measure. 

If you want to retain the group weights even if one of the measures goes to N/A, make sure you have Enable Overall Rollup checked:

Select Enable overall rollup if you want to roll-up the scores from measures to the relationship/account level based on the weight applied to the measures in the scorecard. See: https://support.gainsight.com/Product_Documentation/Scorecards_(1.0_and_2.0)/Admin_Configuration/Con...

If that's checked and in your example one of the 8 support measures goes to N/A, the support group will still be 20% of the overall and the points belonging to the dimensions that went to N/A status will be redistributed in that group and not overall. It's a pretty cool feature! 🙂

Hey Jeff - Agreed that the definition of group weights could be a bit clearer. And since the decimal support right now isn't great, the capabilities to allow the score points to equal higher than 100 (I've tested up past 10,000 points!) let you do a lot of creative things. 🙂

I think you’re missing the point though - if the weights could apply at the group level no one has to worry about working out the math. Its a big pain.

I agree with you. 🙂 And I also know that for many admins who have use cases for grouped scorecards, they can't wait until a future release, hence some shorter term solutioning is also needed. 🙂

Haha ok glad to hear it.

Dan - just wanted to close the loop on this.  I know we talked recently about the workaround you proposed above (and thank you for talking with our TA on how to apply that to our particular use case) but as I indicated I definitely don't feel this is user friendly and hope to see Gainsight take the burden off of the customer to do these sorts of calculations.   Do you know if this will be on the near term roadmap?  

Hi Jeff, I had a chance to share that feedback and usage specifics with our Scorecards product owner and the team will give some thought to reworking the UI to be more intuitive and user friendly.