PERFORMANCE OF TASKS WITHIN ORGANIZATIONS

• US 20150199631A1
• Filed: 01/14/2014
• Published: 07/16/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Ankolekar, Anupriya, Asur, Sitaram, Balestrieri, Filippo, Huberman, Bernardo
• Application Number:
  US14/154,563
• Publication Number:
  US 20150199631A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06311 Scheduling, planning or task assignment for a person or group

Abstract

Examples relate to performance of tasks within organizations. In example implementations, a computing device receives a user profile of a plurality of users in an organization. The device may receive a task from a first user in the organization including an action to be performed by one user on behalf of another. In response, the device may receive a plurality of bids from other users in the organization, where each bid specifies a number of credits to be exchanged between the first user and a second user for performance of the task. The device may receive a selection of a particular bid from the first user. Upon performance of the task, the device may exchange the specified number of credits between the first user and the second user.

Claims

1. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a processor of a computing device, the machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions to:

receive a user profile of a plurality of users in an organization, the user profile comprising each user'"'"'s limit of credits for use in compensating other users for performing tasks;

receive a task from a first user in the organization including an action to be performed by one user on behalf of another user;

receive a plurality of bids from other users in the organization, wherein each bid specifies a number of credits to be exchanged between the first user and a second user for performance of the task and wherein the number of credits in each bid is restricted by the limit of credits in the user profile for at least one of the first user and the second user;

receive a selection of a particular bid from the first user; and

exchange the specified number of credits between the first user and the second user for performance of the task.

2. The medium of claim 1, wherein multiple types of credits may be exchanged for performance of tasks, and wherein a specific type of credit may be exchanged only by particular users within the organization.

3. The medium of claim 1, further comprising instructions to redeem the credits for a particular reward, wherein a supervisor of the user in the organization sets the types of rewards available for redeeming and the credit conversion rate for the rewards.

4. The medium of claim 1, further comprising instructions to limit the number of credits a user may exchange for performance of the task based on a predetermined maximum credit amount for the task.

5. The medium of claim 1, wherein:

the task includes a credit limit specified by the first user; and

other users are restricted by the credit limit when providing each bid.

6. The medium of claim 1, wherein the user profile further comprises at least one of:

each user'"'"'s role within the organization, each user'"'"'s geographical location, skill sets of each user, a number of tasks performed by each user, each user'"'"'s task performance rate, and reviews for the tasks performed by each user.

7. The medium of claim 1, wherein the task further includes at least one of:

a time of expiration and a categorization of the task.

8. The medium of claim 1, further comprising:

instructions to limit performance of tasks by certain users on behalf of certain other users; and

instructions to allow performance of tasks by a user on behalf of another user in a different department within the organization.

9. The medium of claim 1, further comprising instructions to limit the number of credits each user may earn over a period of time, wherein different users have different limits.

10. The medium of claim 1, wherein a supervisor of the user within the organization sets at least one of:

a number of credits each user may earn over a period of time and a number of tasks each user may perform over a period of time.

11. A computing device, comprising a processor to:

receive a user profile of a plurality of users in an organization;

receive a task from a first user in the organization including an action to be performed by one user on behalf of another user;

receive a plurality of bids from other users in the organization, wherein each bid specifies a number of credits to be exchanged between the first user and a second user for performance of the task and wherein the number of credits in each bid is restricted by a limit on a number of credits the user performing the task may earn over a period of time;

receive a selection of a particular bid from the first user; and

exchange the specified number of credits between the first user and the second user upon performance of the task.

12. The computing device of claim 11, wherein:

the number of credits provided for performance of the task is limited by a predetermined maximum credit amount for the task.

13. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a computing device, a user profile of a plurality of users in an organization, the user profile comprising each user'"'"'s limit of credits for use in compensating other users for performing tasks;

receiving a task from a first user in the organization including an action to be performed by one user on behalf of another user and including a credit limit specified by the first user;

receiving a plurality of bids from other users in the organization, wherein each bid specifies a number of credits to be exchanged between the first user and a second user for performance of the task and wherein the number of credits in each bid is restricted by the credit limit specified by the first user in the task;

receiving a selection of a particular bid from the first user; and

exchanging the specified number of credits between the first user and the second user upon performance of the task.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising limiting the number of credits a user may provide for performance of the task by a predetermined maximum credit amount for the task.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising at least one of:

limiting the number of credits each user may earn; and

limiting the number of tasks each user may perform.