Prioritize strategic initiatives together

Several credible initiatives, but capacity for only one? Use Rezon to collect independent rankings at your strategic planning workshop and choose what comes first under rules agreed in advance.

Try the strategy demo

One business, different perspectives

Imagine a coffee roaster with three cafés and spare production capacity. It can lead one growth initiative over the next 12 months. Five pilots have passed the same budget-limit and feasibility checks, but the leadership team brings different concerns to the choice:

Sales. How will we reach customers and turn interest into repeat orders?
Marketing. How will we attract customers and build lasting relationships?
Production. Can we maintain quality and reliable supply as orders grow?
Retail operations. What will the initiative require from staff and day-to-day service?
Finance. What commitments and cash-flow risks come with the pilot?

These are perspectives, not predetermined votes. In this fictional meeting, the five leaders agree on equal vote weights: 1 each.

Run a focused strategic prioritization vote

Prepare comparable initiatives.
Set a shared goal, time horizon and resource limit. Give each initiative the same level of detail: proposed work, expected benefit, evidence and main trade-off. Participants can suggest additions or removals for your review; approved changes enter a new round.
Agree on the rules, then rank independently.
Before voting, agree on participants, weights, counting method, tie-breaks and how the result will be used. Configure access, deadlines and result visibility for the actual meeting. Each person reviews the proposals and submits their own ranking; private notes and temporary ratings can help with the comparison.
Apply the agreed decision rule.
In this example, the highest-ranked eligible pilot is pursued first. Rezon combines the submitted rankings using the configured method and weights. Where you collect role or team information, segment views can show differences in preference; they do not replace the overall result or change anyone’s weight.

Try the growth strategy vote

Compare five ways to grow the coffee business. Each proposal describes a pilot, an opportunity and a trade-off. The same budget limit does not mean identical costs or returns.

Rank the initiatives, submit your ballot, then explore Observe and Results. This is a public fictional demo, not the leadership meeting above: visitors have equal vote weight, and votes and their history are public. The optional perspective question records a role you choose to try, not a verified job title. Results are recalculated daily.

Before you start

Does ranked voting replace a business case or an impact–effort matrix?

No. Use your research and financial analysis to check feasibility and prepare the proposals. The poll combines informed preferences; it does not calculate return on investment, allocate a portfolio budget or prove customer demand. Vote weights apply to whole ballots, not to individual business criteria.

Can teams in different countries participate?

Yes. Add the languages your participants need to the same poll. Translated initiatives remain the same options and contribute to one result. An optional team, role or region question lets you compare preferences; its answers do not automatically assign weights.

Must everyone rank all five initiatives?

The public demo allows partial rankings. An unranked initiative counts below every ranked initiative, not as a neutral “not assessed”. For a real strategy meeting, agree on the ranking requirement beforehand and provide enough information for participants to compare the eligible proposals.