Stack Rank

What is the Stack Rank tool for?

• The Stack Rank step in the Brightidea's New Platform provides the Pipeline Managers / Administrators with the ability to quickly find the best ideas using an order based system.
• Determine order of ideas best to worst
• Send Stack Rank action items to list of people who put ideas in a stack rank.
• When a Stack Rank action item is triggered, the evaluator / screener will be able to place the assigned ideas in their desired order from best to worst.

Configure the Stack Rank Tool:

• To get started with Stack Rank, navigate to Step Ellipsis Menu --> Configure Stack Rank:

• In the Stack Rank configuration section, the Pipeline Manager will need to set the following parameters:
• Evaluators: Select the users who will review / stack the ideas.
• Due Date:The manager can set the due date dynamically from date assigned or manually select a date if needed.
• Idea Editing: Assignees who are not already administrators will be able to edit some idea attributes such as idea title, description and category.
• Action Items: Cancel open action items when submission moves out of Step.
• Send Email Alert: Allows the manager to enable or disable the email alert on assignment.

• Recurring Reminders: Send email reminders to assignees after X days of inactivity.
• Action Item Escalation: Notify certain recipients when an action item hasn’t been completed in X days.

• Select Activate to complete the configuration.

Assignee's experience:

• After the action item is triggered in Brightidea, the assignee will receive an email / notification notifying them of their open Stack Rank action item to complete.
• The selected evaluators will complete their Stack Rank action items by placing ideas in the desired order (by dragging and dropping) and selecting Complete

Important things to note:

• When viewing an Export Report Overall Stack Rank is calculated by:

• For each idea, averages the ranks given across all evaluators.
• Orders the ideas by average value and determines the overall rank value.

• Stack Rank is not recommended for continuous Initiatives. Instead this tool should only be used for time-boxed Initiatives.