Start, Stop, Continue - Act on Results

Review the Summary tab

• Use the 2x2 Idea grid to quickly review the most important/most popular Ideas identified by the collaboration.
• Click on the top right quadrant of the grid. Ideas will be listed in order of Importance.
  • Ideas in the top right quadrant reflect greatest areas of alignment in the responses and require the highest degree of attention.
  • Ideas in the bottom right quadrant are popular, meaning they were important to a number of people, but they were not consistently ranked as the most important.
  • Ideas in the top left quadrant were important to a smaller group of participants. As such, they may be niche ideas or ideas newly emerging among the team. 
  • Ideas in the bottom left quadrant are those that did not particularly resonate with the audience. They were not ranked as important by a large percentage of the participants.
• Each prompt generates it's own 2x2 grid plus there is a grid that reflects the responses for all the prompts. Use the drop down menu on the right to click through the responses for All, Start, Stop, and Continue.
• The grid for "All" prompts reflects all the ideas submitted for all three prompts, listed in order of importance, enabling a comparison of importance and popularity across Start, Stop, and Continue prompts.

Act on responses - Start and Stop

• Start - Address the concepts in the most important/most popular quadrant of the grid. These are ideas for projects, policies, and practices your organization should start to achieve success within the context set by the collaboration.
  • if this is a strategic effort associated with annual planning, several of the initiatives suggested may be quite large and may require further analysis to understand their full scope before agreeing to implementation.
  • Even in a strategic effort, some low-hanging fruit might be identified that could be implemented immediately.
  • Obviously, any ideas that violate cultural, ethical, compliance, or legal requirements should not be adopted
• Stop - Address the concepts in the most important/most popular quadrant of the grid. These are ideas for projects, policies, and practices your team should stop to achieve success within the context set by the collaboration.
  • If the response is low-hanging fruit, consider how to adopt the suggestion quickly
  • While popular, some ideas may not be feasible due to compliance, on-going commitments, or other requirements
  • Some of the ideas may require impact analysis to assess the feasibility of if/when to stop the activity.
• Consider addressing responses in the top left and bottom right quadrant of the grid. While not at the top of the list, they warrant some consideration. 
• Remember, ideas that were not ‘voted up’ do not represent the majority view of your audience. While you can review that feedback for interesting points, we do not suggest excessive action on those comments.

Act on responses - Continue 

• Continue - The activities that are most important/most popular have a high chance of being required efforts that can't be easily eliminated and likely must continue.
  • This is the only prompt for which the bottom left quadrant may be the most interesting. Efforts that were identified but not 'ranked up' by participants may be candidates for Stop.
  • Consider adding some of the lower-ranked Continue ideas to the Stop list as you research the feasibility of Stop Ideas.

Communicate Results

• Follow up with communication to all invitees to provide feedback on the results, to address topics raised in the collaboration, and to thank participants.