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Criteria-based voting

Streamline the selection process by analysing the proposals from different angles

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Aim

Criteria-based voting is a convergence and ranking tool that you can use following a collective intelligence task that resulted in several solutions being generated.

Instructions

Time needed: 30 minutes

Materials :

Create a table with one row per idea in the left column and then as many extra columns as there are voting criteria. The furthest column on the right can be used to display the total number of points per line.

The NUF table presented below is one example of criteria-based voting, based on three dimensions: New, Useful, Feasible.

Key steps

  1. Before you do anything else, explain the criteria:
  1. Each participant must then evaluate all the ideas proposed and give each one a score from 0 to 10 for each criterion (0 = criterion not fulfilled at all, 10 = criterion completely fulfilled).).
Download the illustration and NUF table
  1. The group then shares their individual scores and totals them up in order to rank the proposals. During this part of the task, try to refocus the group if they digress and prevent any debates from starting up.
  2. Debriefing: once the totals have been counted, some ideas will come out on top, and you can see how varied the spread of criteria is.
    You can ask the participants to share their feelings and impressions and to explain the distribution of their scores. This time can help the group to finalise their choice and prevent any future frustrations or disagreements.
    E.g.: an idea may have received a lot of votes, yet isn’t feasible. In this case, the group may look further into the feasibility of the solution or decide to abandon it, despite it seeming like a great idea to start with.

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