What quality is my initiative at?

Often I get asked "why is my initiative not on", or "why is my initiative giving the wrong level of quality?"

Lets use the following model to consider why that would be.

 

Why is my initiative not on? 

If we set this model to none, intermediate and optimal in the optimise window we will get no outcome performance.

This may seem odd, but the reason is that in Realisor you don't force Initiative performance, but request it.  When you set an initiative to a quality it asks the capability linked to that quality to turn on.  As such, any quality is considered active whenever the capabilities behind it are turned on.

As such if we change the model to

We get the expected

Why is my quality / outcome at the wrong value?

The next mistake people make is chaining capabilities.  As discussed before we ask capabilities behind the quality to turn on, and the highest quality with it's capabilities fulfilled is the working quality.  Lets see an example.

 

This seems right?

But then doesn't...

 

Why is this?

Setting I1 to optimal sets the chain behind it to on.  This activates cap 5 as it is chained behind Cap-1, which in turn means that although the intermediate quality of I-2 was requested there is sufficient capability to activate the optimal quality of I-2, so you get 100% quality from I-2.

Why don't we fix this bug?

It isn't a bug.  What this does is allow you to model shared wins.  If we consider

This tells us that if we set our top initiative to optimal we automatically get the intermediate quality on the bottom Initiative (or intermediate on the bottom automatically gives us optimal on the top).  There is no extra cost to this, and could show a shared facility etc.

However there is a danger, and that is chaining capabilities where one sits behind another.  This must not happen, otherwise the calculations are strange, so always avoid