Create Measures and Measure Groups (2.0)

Overview

This article is the second item in a series of Scorecard 2.0 configuration articles. Gainsight recommends you to refer the initial articles of the series and then start with this article.

This article introduces you to Measures and Measure Groups in Scorecards.You can also learn the process of creating and configuring Measures and Measure Groups in this article.

Measures are the building blocks of Scorecards. A measure is basically a metric, associated with a customer, which you wish to track. A Measure can be any key aspect related to a customer like Product Usage, Support tickets, NPS® score, and so on. Every Measure has a Health Score, which represents the customer’s health for that particular Measure.

Important notes on Measure functionality:

• You can create a Measure for an Account or a Relationship.
• An Account Measure can only be used in Account Scorecard and Relationship Measure can only be used in Relationship Scorecard.
• The Health Score for a Measure can be set manually, or automatically through the Rules Engine.
• An individual Measure can be used in multiple Scorecards.
• You can use Measure Scores to create reports.

MPORTANT: With the 6.15 release, admins can enable an updated method for handling how measures and measure groups contribute to overall group score. This method handles NA scores differently, and is designed to be more intuitive. For more information on enabling this framework and its impact on scorecards, refer to the Configure Scorecard 2.0 Measure Weights article.

Create Measures

To create a Measure:

1. Navigate to Administration > Scorecards 2.0. The Scorecard Configuration window is displayed.
2. Select either Company or Relationship from the entity drop-down field depending on the type of measure you want to create.
3. Select the Measures tab and click Create. 

4. Perform the following tasks:
   1. Enter a name in the Measure name field.
   2. (Optional) Enter a description in the Measure description field.
   3. Select Manual or Automated option in the Measure type field. Automated is selected by default. Automated measures can only be set by the Rules Engine. Manual measures can be set either by the Rules Engine, as well as manually by end users.
   4. Click SAVE.

In the above example, a Measure called Admin Sentiment is created for an Account entity. This Measure’s score is set automatically.

Note: The edit icon corresponding to the Measure on the Measures screen allows Admin to modify the Measure Type from Manual to Automated and vice versa after creating the Measure.

Create Measure Groups

A Measure Group is a collection of Measures. You can use a Measure Group to combine related Measures. Measure Groups also have a Score. This score is automatically calculated based on the score of each measures (Group level scores are calculated only if Enable group scores check box is enabled on the Scorecard setup page).

For instance, Measures like Product Risk, Bug risk, Support risk, can be added to a measure group called Risk.

Important notes on Measures Group functionality:

• You can create a Measure Group for an Account or Relationship.
• An Account Measure Group can only be used in Account Scorecard and Relationship Measure Group can only be used in Relationship Scorecard.
• A Measure Group and a Measure can have the same name.
• An individual Measure group can be used in multiple Scorecards.
• You can use a Measure Group’s Score to create reports.

To create a Measure Group:

1. Navigate to Administration > Scorecards 2.0. The Scorecard Configuration window is displayed.
2. Select either Company or Relationship from the entity drop-down field depending on the type of measure you want to create.
3. Select the Measure Groups tab and click Create. 

4. Perform the following tasks:
   1. Enter a name in the Group name field.
   2. (Optional) Enter a description in the Group description field.
   3. Click Add Measure, the Add Measures screen appears. 

4. Select the measures you want to include in the group across all scorecards. When you add the Measure Group to a specific scorecard, you can choose the measures from the group to include for that card. You can click the Measure Name or Created On column headers to sort the measure list based on those fields.

5. Click Add.
6. Click Save.

In the above example, a Measure Group called Support Tickets is created for an Account. You can create measures like JIRA tickets, Community tickets, etc., and add all of those measures to this Measure Group.

After Measures are added to a group, you can reorder them by clicking on the drag icon and moving the measure to a new position.

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