Cause and Effect Implementation

Use

You can create a Cause and Effect diagram that shows the cause and effect relationships between objectives. A cause objective is one that impacts the current objective. An effect objective is one that is impacted by the current objective.

Use Context Management  Manage Strategies  Cause and Effect to specify the objectives that impact an objective and the objectives that are impacted by the objective.

Prerequisites

• The strategy management administrator or scorecard administrator has added perspectives and objectives to the context and defined them within the context. For more information, see Scorecard Development.

• You are a strategy management administrator or the strategy administrator (a user assigned to a role with permission to create the strategy. If Context Management  Manage Strategies is unavailable to you, it means you do not have the correct permissions.

• You have selected the Display Cause and Effect option in Context Management  Manage Strategies  Strategy Defaults. For more information, see Strategy Defaults.

• To review the Cause and Effect diagram, you are assigned to a role with permission to see the Strategy tab in the strategy management application.

Features

You can do the following to implement a Cause and Effect diagram for the Strategy tab:

• Select a context from the Context list to work with.

• Select an objective from the Objective list and set up the cause and effect relationships for an objective using the Edit links.

  The Objective list shows all the objectives added to this context.

• Add, remove, or change the cause relationships and effect relationships for the selected objective using the Edit link.

• Review the causes and effects assigned to an objective by selecting the objective. The Causes list shows you the objectives that impact the selected objective. The Effects list shows the objectives that are impacted by the selected objective. If the Causes or Effects box is empty, it means you have not defined any relationships.

Activities

• To set up a Cause and Effect diagram, choose Context Management  Manage Strategies  Cause and Effect.

• To specify the objectives that impact an objective (the causes), select the objective, and click Edit next to the Causes list.

• To specify the objectives that are impacted by the selected objective, click Edit next to the Effects list.

• To remove the Cause and Effect diagram from the Strategy tab, select the Do Not Display option in Context Management  Manage Strategies  Strategy Defaults.