Workflow management system

• US 20090240553A1
• Filed: 03/17/2009
• Published: 09/24/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Sato, Hideo
• Application Number:
  US12/382,468
• Publication Number:
  US 20090240553A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/9
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0633 Workflow analysis

Abstract

A workflow management system for dynamically structuring a workflow model when executing a workflow is disclosed. Task information including at least a task name and detailed information is acquired from a working task when a search request of a human resource or a task is made, skill profile information including at least a skill name is input when the search request is made, a similar existing task is searched for based on the task information, related person information of a searched task is acquired, a consistency is checked with the skill profile information with respect to the searched related person information, the human resource having the skill indicated in the skill profile information is searched for, ranking points for each human resource or each task are calculated based on outputs of the check part and the skill search part, and the ranking points prioritized by higher points are presented.

Claims

1. A workflow management system for dynamically structuring a workflow model when executing a workflow, comprising:

a task information acquisition part configured to acquire task information including at least a task name and detailed information from a working task when a search request of a human resource or a task is made;

a skill profile information input part configured to input skill profile information including at least a skill name when the search request is made;

a similar task search part configured to search for a similar existing task based on the task information;

a related person acquisition part configured to acquire related person information of a task searched by the similar task search part;

a check part configured to check a consistency with the skill profile information with respect to the related person information searched by the related person acquisition part;

a skill search part configured to search for the human resource having the skill indicated in the skill profile information; and

an integration part configured to calculate ranking points for each human resource or each task based on outputs of the check part and the skill search part, and to present the ranking point prioritized by higher points.

2. A workflow management method conducted in a workflow management system for dynamically structuring a workflow model when executing a workflow, said method comprising the steps of:

acquiring task information including at least a task name and detailed information from a working task when a search request of a human resource or a task is made;

inputting skill profile information including at least a skill name when the search request is made;

searching for a similar existing task based on the task information;

acquiring related person information of a task searched in searching for the similar existing task;

checking a consistency with the skill profile information with respect to the related person information searched in acquiring the related person information;

searching for the human resource having the skill indicated in the skill profile information; and

calculating ranking points for each human resource or each task based on outputs of checking the consistency and searching for the human resource having the skill, and to present the ranking points prioritized by higher points.

3. A program product for causing a computer to function as a workflow management system for dynamically structuring a workflow model when executing a workflow, comprising the codes for:

acquiring task information including at least a task name and detailed information from a working task when a search request of a human resource or a task is made;

inputting skill profile information including at least a skill name when the search request is made;

searching for a similar existing task based on the task information;

acquiring related person information of a task searched in searching for the similar existing task;

checking a consistency with the skill profile information with respect to the related person information searched in acquiring the related person information;

searching for the human resource having the skill indicated in the skill profile information; and

calculating ranking points for each human resource or each task based on outputs of checking the consistency and searching for the human resource having the skill, and to present the ranking points prioritized with higher points.