VA/VE Best Practice: Using Tags

Key Activity: Capturing & Discussing VA/VE Ideas

To conveniently group themes of ideas, Tags can be used.

To add a tag to an Idea, click the Add Tags button and select from the dropdown list.

Why Use Tags?

VA/VE teams use tags to uncover big opportunity areas. 

You can identify which Tag has the most ideas or most savings, and it may be worthwhile to look at those areas across different product lines to see if you can capture easy savings elsewhere. 

This information can be found in Insights and be used to drive continuous improvement within a review.

Furthermore, filtering by tag in track and calculating total savings of just ideas with specific tags will allow you to compare the opportunity value per tag.