Metrics Management supports creating multiple initiatives for a measure and location pair. Initiatives in a hierarchical initiative tree show relationships between initiatives. The initiative that appears at the highest level in an initiative tree is a root initiative. The root initiative for an initiative tree is always a group measure. A root initiative containing no subinitiatives is a data initiative.

Creating a subinitiative converts the parent initiative to a group initiative. A data initiative converted to a group initiative no longer contains initiative data.