Return on Evidence (ROE) scores evidence activities, assets, and portfolios on one scale, so leaders can fund what creates value, redirect what does not, and defend evidence decisions with a clear rationale.
Evidence generation is often funded by argument, seniority, precedent, and urgency, not by a shared measure of value. That makes spend hard to defend internally and harder to optimize across a portfolio.
ROE is not a spreadsheet exercise. It is computed inside EvidenceSync from the same governed evidence record your teams already work in. Plans, claims, gaps, actions, activities, data sources, stakeholders, and dissemination outputs are connected before value is scored. In the canonical workflow, ROE is stage 06, Prioritize, and it only carries weight because stages 01 to 05 happened first.
ROE weighs the value an evidence activity creates against what it truly costs to realize. Because every input is defined the same way, any two things can be compared on the same scale.
Once EvidenceSync identifies a gap and defines a recommended action, ROE helps teams decide whether that action deserves funding, review, deferral, escalation, or retirement. The score makes prioritization explicit instead of political.
A plain-language walkthrough of how inputs are scored is available to evaluation teams. The full weighting methodology, including coefficients, is shared under the walkthrough rather than published here.
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