Patent ID: 7716571

Claim:
A method to be executed at least in part in a computing device for organizing a scorecard matrix, the method comprising: determining a selection of elements to be included in the scorecard matrix; determining a categorization for the selected elements; determining a set of header components for the categorized elements; determining score values associated with each header component of the set of header components, wherein determining the score values associated with each header component of the set of header component comprises determining one actual score value for each element of the categorized elements and at least one target value for each element of the categorized elements; providing an option to switch the set of header components with a set of row components; validating the selection of the elements, wherein validating the selection of the elements comprises: ensuring data for the scorecard matrix can be efficiently retrieved, and dropping any header components from the set of header components that are not applicable to the scorecard matrix; and generating the scorecard matrix based on the categorized elements using the set of header components to designate categories.