SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STRUCTURED COLLABORATION USING REUSABLE BUSINESS COMPONENTS AND CONTROL STRUCTURES IN AN ASSET BASED COMPONENT BUSINESS MODEL ARCHITECTURE

• US 20100138249A1
• Filed: 12/01/2008
• Published: 06/03/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Rackham, Guy Jonathan James
• Application Number:
  US12/325,285
• Publication Number:
  US 20100138249A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/067 Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/80 Management or planning

Abstract

A method and system for using an asset based business architecture having components to operate a business, implementing collaborative interactions between the components by using control structures granular to the level of the corresponding asset based components. To respond to a business opportunity components are assembled into a collaborative network, and the assembled components are configured to the business opportunity. Additional or modified control structures are employed in the collaborative network as needed. Preferably, the collaborative network operates in a business control domain. The components may be adapted from a component business model (CBM) map developed for an industry within which the business competes.

Claims

1. A method for using an asset based business architecture to operate a business, comprising:

establishing an asset based business architecture having components; and

operating the business by collaborative interactions between the components using control structures granular to the level of corresponding asset based components.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein each control structure is a mechanism for commercializing an asset allocated to a corresponding component.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

responding to a business opportunity by assembling one or more components into a collaborative network; and

configuring the assembled components to the business opportunity.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein operating the business further comprises:

employing an additional or modified control structure in the collaborative network.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the collaborative network operates in a business control domain.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the components are adapted from a component business model (CBM) map developed for an industry within which the business competes.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the components on the CBM map were developed by decomposition to a threshold level.

8. A system for using an asset based business architecture to operate a business, comprising:

means for establishing an asset based business architecture having components; and

means for operating the business by collaborative interactions between the components using control structures granular to the level of corresponding asset based components.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein each control structure is a mechanism for commercializing an asset allocated to a corresponding component.

10. The system of claim 8, further comprising:

means for responding to a business opportunity by assembling one or more components into a collaborative network; and

means for configuring the assembled components to the business opportunity.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein operating the business further comprises:

means for employing an additional or modified control structure in the collaborative network.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the collaborative network operates in a business control domain.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the components are adapted from a component business model (CBM) map developed for an industry within which the business competes.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the components on the CBM map were developed by decomposition to a threshold level.

15. A computer implemented system for using an asset based business architecture to operate a business, comprising:

first computer code for establishing an asset based business architecture having components; and

second computer code for operating the business by collaborative interactions between the components using control structures granular to the level of corresponding asset based components.

16. The computer implemented system of claim 15, wherein each control structure is a mechanism for commercializing an asset allocated to a corresponding component.

17. The computer implemented system of claim 15, further comprising:

third computer code for responding to a business opportunity by assembling one or more components into a collaborative network; and

fourth computer code for configuring the assembled components to the business opportunity.

18. The computer implemented system of claim 17, wherein operating the business further comprises:

fifth computer code for employing an additional or modified control structure in the collaborative network.

19. The computer implemented system of claim 17, wherein the collaborative network operates in a business control domain.

20. The computer implemented system of claim 15, wherein the components are adapted from a component business model (CBM) map developed for an industry within which the business competes.