Work Environment Recommendation Based on Worker Interaction Graph

• US 20150302328A1
• Filed: 11/29/2012
• Published: 10/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Zeng, Jun, Amir, Gideon, Oblea, Francisco, Shaham, Noam
• Application Number:
  US14/443,668
• Publication Number:
  US 20150302328A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0639 Performance analysis of employees; Performance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06398 Performance of employee with respect to a job function

Abstract

Examples disclosed herein relate to a work environment recommendation based on a worker interaction graph. A computing device may determine based on a graph representing relationships between workers, productivity information related to a work environment and determine a suggested change to the work environment based on the productivity information. The computing device may output the suggested change.

Claims

1. A computing system, comprising:

a storage device to store a graph with nodes to represent workers and edges representing relationships between the workers in a work environment; and

a processor to;

determine based on the graph information about the productivity of the work environment; and

determine a recommended change to the work environment based on the productivity information; and

output the recommendation.

2. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the recommend changes comprises a change to at least one of:

a task, a worker, worker organization, or process workflow based on the productivity information.

3. The computing system of claim 1, wherein determining the productivity information comprises determining a priority level of a worker based on at least one of:

the number of workers providing work to the worker, and the number of workers receiving work from the worker.

4. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further to compare a first graph of a first time period and a second graph of a second time period

5. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further to recommend a placement of at least a subset of the workers based on the determined productivity information.

6. A method comprising,

determining, by a computing device based on a graph representing relationships between workers, productivity information related to a work environment;

determining a suggested change to the work environment based on the productivity information; and

outputting the suggested change.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising identifying based on the productivity information at least one of:

relationships likely to result in failure and identifying relationships likely to result in success.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the graph further represents tools shared between workers.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein determining productivity information comprises determining whether an interaction of a worker is related to the role of the worker.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein determining the productivity information comprises identifying an important worker relative to other workers.

11. A machine-readable non-transitory storage medium including instructions executable by a processor to:

determine productivity information related to a work environment based on analysis of a graph representative of interactions between workers;

determine a recommended change to the work environment based on the graph.

output the recommended change.

12. The machine-readable non-transitory storage medium of claim 11, wherein instructions to determine productivity information comprise instructions to compare the time between a workflow from a first worker to a second worker to the time spent performing the work.

13. The machine-readable non-transitory storage medium of claim 11, wherein instructions to determine the productivity information comprise instructions to trace work handed from a first worker to a second worker and back to the first worker.

14. The machine-readable non-transitory storage medium of claim 11, further comprising instructions to recommend a relative location of workers based on the productivity information.

15. The machine-readable non-transitory storage medium of claim 11, wherein the recommended change comprises a recommendation to group workers together for a common role based on the productivity information.