DISCOVERY AND REALIZATION OF BUSINESS MEASUREMENT CONCEPTS

• US 20130246129A1
• Filed: 03/19/2012
• Published: 09/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Chandrasekaran, Swaminathan, Krishnamurthy, Lakshminarayanan, Walk, Christopher L.
• Granted Patent: US 10,546,252 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7.36
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0637 Strategic management or analysis, e.g. setting a goal or target of an organisation; Planning actions based on goals; Analysis or evaluation of effectiveness of goals
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0639 Performance analysis of employees; Performance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations

Abstract

A method for providing discovery and realization of business measurement concepts may include providing at least one interface configured to receive an input from an operator associated with an organization, determining a selected set of glossary terms from a repository including a plurality of glossaries based at least in part on the input where the glossaries relate to different performance indicator components that are combinable to define a measurable performance indicator, and generating at least one performance indicator of the organization based on the selected set of glossary terms.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

providing at least one interface configured to receive an input specifying a business entity from an operator associated with an organization;

correlating, via processing circuitry, the business entity with one or more value chain characteristics from a value chain glossary based at least in part on the business entity;

providing, via the at least one interface, a list of possible entity states selected from an entity state glossary based at least in part on the business entity or a selected value chain characteristic of the one or more value chain characteristics;

determining, via processing circuitry, a selected set of glossary terms correlated to at least one of the business entity, the selected value chain characteristic, or a selected entity state of the list of possible entity states from a plurality of glossaries, the glossaries relating to different performance indicator components associated with at least one of the business entity, the value chain characteristic, or the entity state that are combinable to define a measurable performance indicator;

generating at least one performance indicator of the organization based on the selected set of glossary terms; and

exporting the at least one performance indicator of the organization to a business performance management tool.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the selected set of glossary terms comprises determining one component from each of the glossaries and combining components determined to form the at least one performance indicator.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein determining one component from each of the glossaries comprises determining one component from each of a business entity glossary, a statistical parameter glossary, the value chain glossary, the entity state glossary, and a duration parameter glossary.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the selected set of glossary terms comprises determining the selected set of glossary terms based on a summation of individual operator selections of each of the glossary terms selected.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the selected set of glossary terms comprises determining at least one glossary term based on operator selection from a list of candidate glossary terms, the list being generated based on at least one prior operator selection.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the at least one interface comprises providing the at least one interface at a device employing the method responsive to operation of a cloud based resource.

25. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one interface is further configured to provide a list of the one or more value chain characteristics in response to the input specifying the business entity.

26. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining the selected set of glossary terms is based at least in part on a template previously generated for the business entity and the selected value chain characteristic.

27. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one interface is further configured to receive modification of the at least one performance indicator from the operator before export to the business performance management tool.

28. The method of claim 26, further comprising automatically filling at least a portion of the template based at least in part on information regarding the organization.

29. The method of claim 26, further comprising generating the template based at least in part on a previously generated model mapped to the business entity in one of the plurality of glossaries.

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9. An apparatus comprising processing circuitry, the processing circuitry being configured to:

provide at least one interface configured to receive an input specifying a business entity from an operator associated with an organization;

correlate the business entity with one or more value chain characteristics from a value chain glossary based at least in part on the business entity;

provide a list of possible entity states selected from an entity state glossary based at least in part on the business entity or a selected value chain characteristic of the one or more value chain characteristics;

determine a selected set of glossary terms correlated to at least one of the business entity, the selected value chain characteristic, or a selected entity state of the list of possible entity states from a plurality of glossaries, the glossaries relating to different performance indicator components associated with at least one of the business entity, the value chain characteristic, or the entity state that are combinable to define a measurable performance indicator;

generate at least one performance indicator of the organization based on the selected set of glossary terms; and

export the at least one performance indicator of the organization to a business performance management tool.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to determine the selected set of glossary terms by determining one component from each of the glossaries and combining components determined to form the at least one performance indicator.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to determine one component from each of the glossaries via determining one component from each of a business entity glossary, a statistical parameter glossary, the value chain glossary, the entity state glossary, and a duration parameter glossary.

12. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to determine the selected set of glossary terms via determining the selected set of glossary terms based on a summation of individual operator selections of each of the glossary terms selected.

13. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to determine the selected set of glossary terms via determining at least one glossary term based on operator selection from a list of candidate glossary terms, the list being generated based on at least one prior operator selection.

15. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the processing circuitry being configured to export the at least one performance indicator comprises the processing circuitry being configured to export the at least one performance indicator in an XML, Excel, or comma separated values format.

16. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the processing circuitry being configured to provide the at least one interface comprises the processing circuitry being configured to provide the at least one interface at a remote device responsive to operation of a cloud based resource.

14. (canceled)

17. A computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable program code instructions stored therein, the computer-executable program code instructions comprising program code instructions for:

providing at least one interface configured to receive an input specifying a business entity from an operator associated with an organization;

correlating the business entity with one or more value chain characteristics from a value chain glossary based at least in part on the business entity;

providing a list of possible entity states selected from an entity state glossary based at least in part on the business entity or a selected value chain characteristic of the one or more value chain characteristics;

determining a selected set of glossary terms correlated to at least one of the business entity, the selected value chain characteristic, or a selected entity state of the list of possible entity states from a plurality of glossaries, the glossaries relating to different performance indicator components associated with at least one of the business entity, the value chain characteristic, or the entity state that are combinable to define a measurable performance indicator;

generating at least one performance indicator of the organization based on the selected set of glossary terms; and

exporting the at least one performance indicator of the organization to a business performance management tool.

18. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein program code instructions for determining the selected set of glossary terms include instructions for determining one component from each of the glossaries and combining components determined to form the at least one performance indicator.

19. The computer program product of claim 18, wherein program code instructions for determining one component from each of the glossaries include instructions for determining one component from each of a business entity glossary, a statistical parameter glossary, the value chain glossary, the entity state glossary, and a duration parameter glossary.

20. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein program code instructions for determining the selected set of glossary terms include instructions for determining the selected set of glossary terms based on a summation of individual operator selections of each of the glossary terms selected.

21. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein program code instructions for determining the selected set of glossary terms include instructions for determining at least one glossary term based on operator selection from a list of candidate glossary terms, the list being generated based on at least one prior operator selection.

24. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein program code instructions for providing the at least one interface include instructions for providing the at least one interface at a device employing the method responsive to operation of a cloud based resource.

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