Detailed method of and system for modeling and analyzing business improvement programs
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Abstract
An automated system (100) and method for evaluating the probable impact of user-specified or system generated changes in business value drivers on the components of value, revenue, expense and capital change, of a commercial enterprise. Value drivers are identified using predictive models that define the value drivers associated with each element of the enterprise. After the causal value drivers are identified using causal models, the system completes a detailed valuation of the firm using predictive models to determine the relative impact of each causal value driver on the overall valuation. The detailed valuation results are then used to define a probabilistic financial simulation model such as a Markov Chain Monte Carlo model. The financial simulation model then analyzes the impact of user specified changes in value drivers on the components of value performance and optionally generates a list of recommended changes to value drivers that achieve a user specified financial goal.
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227 Claims
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145. A program storage device readable by a computer, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by at least one computer to perform method the steps in an element impact summary method, comprising:
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preparing a plurality of historical and forecast enterprise transaction data from a plurality of enterprise related systems for use in processing, creating a plurality of performance indicators for each of a plurality of elements of value of an enterprise using at least a portion of the data, identifying a plurality of value driver candidates for each element of value by training a plurality of network models using at least a portion of said performance indicators for each of a plurality of aspects of financial performance, and analyzing said value driver candidates with an induction algorithm in order to identify at least one value driver and create an element impact summary for each element of value. - View Dependent Claims (146, 147, 148)
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207. A current operation modeling method, comprising:
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integrating transaction data for a commercial enterprise in accordance with a common data dictionary; using a neural network model to identify one or more value driver candidates for each of one or more elements of value from said data, using an induction model to identify one or more value drivers from said candidates and define a contribution summary for each element of value for each of one or more aspects of a current operation financial performance using said value drivers, and creating a plurality of network models that connect the elements of value to aspects of current operation financial performance using said contribution summaries where the elements of value are selected from the group consisting of brands customers, employees, intellectual capital, partners, vendors, vendor relationships and combinations thereof, where the induction models are selected from the group consisting of lagrange, path analysis and entropy minimization, where data associated with one or more real options are removed before models are created for one or more aspects of current operation financial performance, and where the aspects of current operation financial performance are selected from the group consisting of revenue, expense, capital change, cash flow and combinations thereof. - View Dependent Claims (208, 209, 210, 211)
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213. A program storage device readable by a computer, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by at least one computer to perform method the steps in a current operation method, comprising:
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converting and integrating transaction data for a commercial enterprise in accordance with a common data dictionary; using a sequence of analytical time series models to create a causal contribution summary for each of one or more elements of value for each of one or more aspects of current operation financial performance creating a plurality of network models that connect the elements of value to a value of each of one or more aspects of current operation financial performance over a historical time period, a forecast time period and combinations thereof using said contribution summaries, completing analyses of one or more of the plurality of network models wherein the analyses are selected from the group consisting of identifying one or more changes to elements of value that will optimize one or more aspects of current operation financial performance, identifying a current operation value contribution of each element of value identifying an impact of element of value changes on one or more aspects of current operation financial performance, creating one or more usable forecasts without the use of a reconciliation system, identifying one or more transaction changes that will optimize one or more aspects of financial performance and combinations thereof, and displaying the results of the analyses where the elements of value are selected from the group consisting of brands customers, customer relationships, employees, employee relationships, intellectual capital, partners, vendors, vendor relationships and combinations thereof, where data associated with one or more real options are removed before models are created for one or more aspects of current operation financial performance, and where the aspects of current operation financial performance are selected from the group consisting of revenue, expense, capital change, cash flow, raw material expense, manufacturing expense, service delivery expense, sales expense, support expense, other expense, change in cash, change in non-cash financial assets and combinations thereof. - View Dependent Claims (214, 215, 217, 218)
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219. An optimization apparatus, comprising:
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a plurality of enterprise transaction systems, means for integrating and converting data from said systems in accordance with a common data dictionary, means for analyzing at least a portion of said data to create a plurality of network models that identify a contribution for each of one or more elements of value to one or more aspects of current operation financial performance over a historical time period, a forecast time period and combinations thereof using said data, means for using said models to identify one or more changes by element of value that will optimize one or more aspects of current operation financial performance, and means for displaying the identified changes where the aspects of financial performance are historical, forecast and combinations thereof aspects of financial performance selected from the group consisting of revenue expense, capital change, cash flow and combinations thereof, where data associated with one or more real options are removed before models are created for one or more aspects of current operation financial performance, and where the elements of value are selected from the group consisting of brands customers, employees, intellectual capital, partners, vendors, vendor relationships and combinations thereof. - View Dependent Claims (220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225)
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226. A business event network model, comprising
a network model that connects one or more elements of value to a value of an aspect of current operation financial performance for a commercial enterprise over a period of time where each of one or more inputs nodes to said model are specific to an element of value and an input node value for each time period is derived from actual and forecast business event data, where an aspect of current operation financial performance is modeled only after removing data associated with all enterprise growth options, where an aspect of current operation financial performance is selected from the group consisting of revenue, expense, capital change, cash flow, raw material expense, manufacturing expense, service delivery expense, sales expense, support expense, other expense, change in cash, change in non-cash financial assets and combinations thereof, and where the elements of value are selected from the group consisting of brands customers, customer relationships, employees, employee relationships, intellectual capital, partners, vendors, vendor relationships and combinations thereof.
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227. The model of claim 227 that enables one or more activities selected from the group consisting of an identification of business event changes that will optimize one or more aspects of enterprise financial performance, a production of usable forecasts without the need for a separate reconciliation system, a valuation of element contribution to current operation value, a quantification of element impact on aspects of financial performance, an optimization of future current operation value and combinations thereof.
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