Establish selection criteria for research initiatives

Trigger: The strategic planning cycle begins or organizational goals shift, prompting a need to standardize how potential IT research projects are evaluated.

1. Review organizational strategy and current IT objectives
2. Identify necessary technical, financial, and strategic alignment parameters
3. Draft specific evaluation criteria and scoring scales
4. Assign weightings to each criterion based on strategic priorities
5. Review and refine criteria with IT leadership and business stakeholders
6. Finalize and publish the selection framework

Outcome: A standardized set of weighted evaluation criteria is approved and published for scoring proposed IT research initiatives.