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Organize Your Strategy - Add and Manage Initiatives (Projects)

This article will walk through how to manage initiatives or Projects in ClearPoint.

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Written by Fernando Montenegro
Updated over a week ago

This article will review how you can manage initiatives (often called “projects”) from the ‘Manage Initiatives’ section. Once you create an Initiative, you can edit its detail page.


Manage Initiatives

Editing an Initiative in the ‘Manage Initiatives’ section

  • Select Scorecards & Elements from the Control Panel

  • Choose Manage Elements

  • Click on Initiatives

  • Locate the Initiative you are going to be working with, in this example, ‘Add New Website’

  • Click the Edit Pencil icon

  • Navigate to the Update Fields tab

    • Examples of information that can be updated are Status, Percent Complete, Analysis, and Recommendations.

  • Navigate to the Edit Fields tab

    • Examples of information that can be edited are Name, Owner, Reporting Frequency, and Dependencies.

  • Navigate to the Milestones tab

    • Milestones can be added, edited, or deleted. Find out more about Milestones in this article.

  • Navigate to the Links tab

    • Initiatives can be linked to other Elements in ClearPoint. Find out more about Linking Elements in this article.

  • Navigate to the Notifications tab

    • Update your Notifications preferences accordingly, you can choose to receive notifications for Any Change, Any Edit or Any Update.


Editing an Initiative on a Detail Page

  • Select Scorecards & Elements from the Control Panel

  • Choose Manage Elements

  • Click on Initiatives

    • Locate the Initiative you are going to be working with, in this example, ‘Redesign Employee Satisfaction Survey’

  • Click the Edit Pencil icon

  • From here you can access Update Fields, Edit Fields, Milestones, Links and Notifications, please see above for more in-depth information.


Bulk editing initiatives

  • Select Scorecards & Elements from the Control Panel

  • Choose Manage Elements

  • Click on Initiatives

    • Mark the checkbox next to the Initiatives you are going to be working with

  • Select Edit Multiple from the dropdown menu

  • Initiatives To Update shows all of the Initiatives you will be making changes to

  • Navigate to the Update Fields, changes can be made for the reporting period you are currently viewing.

  • Navigate to the Edit Fields, changes can be made to the Initiatives that will be the same no matter what period the user is logged into.

  • Select the fields you want to change from the Select Fields menu

  • Choose the value you want to apply to each field

  • Once you are done, click Save

Please note that these changes, once saved, will be reflected on all of the Initiatives that were selected.

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