SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION IN AN ENTERPRISE

• US 20100251205A1
• Filed: 03/26/2009
• Published: 09/30/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Kramer, Joseph David, Antoun, Samuel, Terrizzano, Ignacio Gabriel, Lyman, Kelly Anne, Sanz, Jorge L. C., Harishankar, Raman, Giesen, Edward H B, Leung, Ying Tat, Ghosh, Shuvanker, Channabasavaiah, Kishore, Holley, Kerrie Lamont, Guinan, Thomas Franklin, Bate, Graham Paul
• Granted Patent: US 8,214,792 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/102
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/04 Forecasting or optimisation specially adapted for administrative or management purposes, e.g. linear programming or "cutting stock problem" market predictions or forecasting for commercial activities G06Q30/0202
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

A business enterprise is assessed by a consultant using a computer implemented tool for practicing component business modeling techniques. The tool builds a map of components, filters the map to form a heat map and identifies collaborations. Key performance indicators are evaluated.

Claims

1. A computer implemented tool for business transformation, comprising:

a computer processor;

a software development kit adapted for integrating and running plug-ins, said software development kit when launched on said computer processor presenting a user with an integrated development environment having a set of available plug-ins comprising;

an activities view for editing activities associated with a component;

a custom attributes view for editing customer attributes on a component or competency;

a connections view for viewing collaboration in a CBM map;

a heat map view for displaying host maps on a CBM map;

a metrics view for editing KPIs, key performance indicator, on a component or a CBM map;

a plug-in containing a core metamodel; and

a plug-in for creating and specifying enterprise process scenarios.

2. The tool of claim 1, further comprising a plug-in for creating associations to components.

3. The tool of claim 1, wherein said heat map view is adapted to compute a composite component score for a component, Ci, according to the formula

4. The tool of claim 1, wherein said metrics view is adapted for comparing a KPI value to an industry median value for that KPI.

5. The tool of claim 1, wherein said metrics view is adapted to accept a comparison criteria from a consultant and present a view in response thereto.

6. The tool of claim 1, wherein said core metamodel comprises a data model and a view model.