Establish general information:
The “Trend radar” page offers you an overview of all your company’s Trend radars. You can create a new Trend radar via the New button and thereby initiate a trend evaluation. Optionally, you can give colleagues in the Manager role admin rights to the Trend radar. These people can also edit the Trend radar and track the evaluation progress. What’s more, your company admin automatically gets admin rights for all Trend radars.
Make a trend selection:
In the next step, select the trends to be evaluated for your Trend radar. Select all the mega-trends, including all the related macro-trends, or select the individual macro-trends that are of interest to you.
Evaluation management:
In step three, select the participants you want to invite to evaluate the trends. The participants are informed of the invitation by e-mail. You can also write an individual message if you wish to give the participants some additional information.
As soon as the participants have taken part in the survey, you will receive a preview of the Trend radar. You will also see the status of evaluated trends in a progress bar and the number of people who have provided a completed evaluation.
You can use the “Message to participants” feature to send a message to the participants in the evaluation. Choose if you wish to notify all the participants, all the participants with completed evaluations or all the participants who have not yet completed the evaluation. This also allows you to thank the evaluators or send them a reminder for the trend evaluation.
When you declare the evaluation phase to be finished, we recommend you to close the survey because participants can still make changes to their evaluations if the status is open.
Finalisation:
In the fourth step of the Trend radar process, you can take another look at the average evaluation of the trends by the participants. To do so, simply choose a trend.
At this point, you can make an assessment of the trends and the criteria for each trend in your radar. In this way, you will ensure greater transparency and increase the understanding of the trend evaluations. You are also able to adjust the evaluation of the trend again, if necessary.
In the list view for the trends, you can see from the slider symbol to the left of the trend if a trend evaluation has been adjusted retrospectively. You can also see if an assessment of the trend is available from the tick to the right of the trend. To publish the Trend radar, set the slider to “publish” in the Trend radar status.