Map Elements

Map elements represent the strategy and accountability elements such as goals, critical success factors, and departments that you create and organize to form maps. The hierarchy of these elements displays in the appropriate map folder. For example, the Eden Company accountability map below is comprised of accountability elements representing departments such as Research & Development, IT and Human Resources.

Figure 6.  Map Elements

The image SampleMapElements.gif shows the hierarchy of departments that form a sample accountability map.

To change the name of element types and the default order in which they appear on maps, see Defining Element Types at the Framework Level.

Attach scorecards to elements to monitor their progress. Two performance indicators and a scoring bar display on each element to represent performance levels. The first indicator to the left represents current performance as evaluated by a scorecard. The second indicator, below the first, represents the status of the lowest performing element associated with the element. The scoring bar at the bottom expresses the element performance level as a percent.