The Idea Assessment Canvas is a tool used to evaluate and prioritize ideas for addressing challenges. It has three business categories - People, Technology, and Infrastructure - and three columns to assess an idea's contribution - Fundamental, Substantial, and Incremental. Ideas are plotted based on their estimated impact and feasibility, with high impact/high feasibility ideas in the top right as most promising solutions. The canvas helps sort ideas and focus on those with the greatest potential to meaningfully address the identified challenge.
2. What is IAC?
• This canvas help you to evaluate ideas and prioritize solutions for
responding to the challenge.
• It has 3 Business categories and 3 columns of idea contribution. At
the intersection of business line and idea contribution you will find a
classical feasibility / impact matrix.
4. Business Categories
• For each idea you will need to select between 3 business lines.
• Place your idea within the appropriate row. People, Technology or
Infrastructure.
• An idea could be split between several categories, in this case pick the
most prominent category for the particular idea.
• This is not a final categorization as ideas will merge. You may not
border about accountability at this stage.
5. Idea Contribution
• Some ideas would have a fundamental impact towards challenge
resolution other would be incremental.
• The 3 vertical columns help in sorting ideas’ contribution to the
challenge.
• Place fundamental ideas on the right.
• Incremental ideas on the left, those you are not sure on the central
column are substantial ideas.
6. Impact & Feasibility
• Ideas are sorted with respect to Impact and Feasibility.
• Move the idea towards High Impact if you believe that this idea would
have an high impact towards challenge resolution.
• Move the idea towards High Feasibility if you believe that the idea is
easily feasible.
• Ideas that have Low Impact and Low Feasibility are likely to be
discarded.