This year has already been a busy one for the Quantumrun Foresight Platform. In January 2021, we launched the Platform, and focused on its different content types in February 2021. In March 2021, we introduced Lists and in April 2021, we discussed the basics of the Scenario Composer.
This month, we will focus on the different features of the Strategy Planner project interface. As we now know, the Strategy Planner project interface is designed to help an organization quickly understand what trends it should focus on today, in two to five years, five to 10 years, and which trends to ignore outright. Let’s now assess the Strategy Planner’s different features.
Project page elements in detail
This support page details the various features present in the Strategy Planner project interface that your organization can take advantage of for your planning objectives.
Left sidebar
Posts: The primary content in this left sidebar will be a scrollable list of all the content your team tagged/bookmarked to the List this project page was created with and/or all the content your team custom created using the publishing tools found on this page.
Each row of content will display its: Micro title field (top-left corner); Content type (top-right); Full title (Larger text in the middle of the row); Status (bottom-left: states include ‘Rated’ or ‘Pending’)
“+PROJECT CONTENT” button: During the process of creating a new project page (view instructions here), you have the option of pre-populating your project with bookmarked content from a list or starting a clean project that you can populate with your own content. In either case, your team can publish your own internal or externally sourced website links/URLs or articles/reports by clicking on the “+PROJECT CONTENT” button on the top left corner of the project page’s left sidebar. This dropdown button will open a popup form that will allow you to publish your own content to this project. Read details here.
“PROJECT FORUM” button: Located beside the “+PROJECT CONTENT” button, this button will open a Project-specific forum where team members collaborating on this project can share notes, opinions, comments, etc.
‘Filter by’ dropdown: Clicking on this dropdown will open up a popup over the project graph that will display the various options available to filter the left sidebar content list and in so doing, filter the content displayed in the visualization graph on the right portion of the page.
‘Order by’ dropdown: Selecting an option from this dropdown will reorder the content list in the left sidebar using a variety of criteria.
Project page visualization
The right portion of the project page features the Strategy Planner visualization. By default, it will (based on the votes collected/applied to each post) automatically position and display the posts inside one of four quadrants that reveal which of these posts need to be acted upon in:
- Zero (today) to two years: Act Now quadrant
- Two to five years: Informs Strategy quadrant
- Five to 10 years: Keep Vigilant quadrant
- 10+ years or ignore: Revisit Later quadrant
Higher ‘impact’ scores will determine which quadrant the post will appear in, with higher scores pushing the post to quadrants that advocate for nearer-term action. Meanwhile, the year range makes up the Y-axis and the probability score makes up the X-axis.
On the top-left corner of the graph:
You will see an option to change the format from displaying the left sidebar posts as circles (showing their numbers) or as bars (showing their micro titles).
Meanwhile, on the top-right corner of the graph:
You will see a variety of tools to download a screenshot of your visualization, to zoom in and out, or zoom in on a specific section of the graph, and to reset the graph to its original dimensions. More tools may be added based on user feedback.
Project page menu
Above the project page elements described above:
You will see the project page’s title, as well as three buttons.
The “SELECT QUANDRANT” button will let you update the visualization from a four-quadrant graph to a single quadrant graph of your choosing.
That will do it for our discussion regarding the Strategy Planner project interface’s different features. Next month, we will focus on the different features of the Scenario Composer project interface.
If you want to know more about signing up to the Quantumrun Foresight Platform and its different pricing plans, speak to us at contact@quantumrun.com. One of our Foresight consultants will contact you to find out how best the Quantumrun Foresight Platform can serve the needs of your business.
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