Initiatives are tasks that can be prioritized, and that must be completed within a certain period of time. You can assign initiatives to measures, scorecards, strategy elements, and accountability elements. Initiatives can act as project milestones because they reflect performance toward a specific outcome. Create initiatives to gather the elements and tasks together to achieve a particular goal, project or objective. By drawing together the measures, scorecards, and objectives into a single view, you have a master perspective of the progress of all elements towards the initiative's goal. This makes it easier to identify potential issue and obtain a more comprehensive understanding of the initiative because you can examine all involved factors.
Each initiative must have a reporting period, during which annotations can be associated with the initiative. Initiatives must also be grouped by category for logical display. As initiatives progress, update their status (such as partially complete or planned due date) to reflect the performance and position of the factors involved. Administrators can specify the tasks users can perform with initiatives, such as creating, updating, and deleting.