Thinking Positive About a Negative Score

Organizations need to pick winners and losers.  For example, a government must decide to whether to fund project X, Y or Z; a corporation only has the capital to build asset A, B or C. 

Most organizations have developed a portfolio selection and management methodology.  There are typically 2 parts to such a process: a set of criterion and a scoring scheme to rank the criteria.  In this blog, I want to focus on the second challenge, the scoring. 

Balancing scoring Model is composed of two right-angled triangles sloping a center vanishing point which represents the value of zero.  At the left, the triangle dips below a black line 2 units into the negative.  At the right the triangle rises out of the line 3 units.  -1, 0, 1 and 2 value points are between these two extremes.
The +/- Scoring Metric
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A Valid Validation Map

How does a ‘requester’ know that a ‘submitter’ has provide a correct, complete, accurate and relevant ‘submission’? A framework to evaluate the planning, receipt, and evaluation of submissions.

A blue triangle, with its apex on
Submission Validation/Decision model of the NOW-Event.
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