System and method for finding business transformation opportunities by analyzing series of heat maps by dimension

• US 8,145,518 B2
• Filed: 10/01/2008
• Issued: 03/27/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Jiang, Shun, Lee, Juhnyoung, Tian, Chun Hua, Cao, Rong Zeng, Ding, Wei
• Primary Examiner(s): Loftis, Johnna
• Assistant Examiner(s): Miller, Alan S
• Application Number:
  US12/243,891
• Publication Number:
  US 20100082386A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,273 Days
• Field of Search: 705 71- 742, 705/36.R, 717100-105
• US Class Current: 705/7.41
• 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 10/0631 Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations
• 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 10/06375 Prediction of business process outcome or impact based on a proposed change
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0639 Performance analysis of employees; Performance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06393 Score-carding, benchmarking or key performance indicator [KPI] analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06395 Quality analysis or management

Abstract

A method and system for analyzing business performance and opportunities by generating one or more series of heat map views of business components by a plurality of dimensions associate information related to a plurality of dimensions with one or more business components; define one or more dimensions from the plurality of dimensions; generate one or more series of heat map views of the said business components by said defined one of more dimensions; and present said series of heat map views of the business components.

Claims

1. A method for analyzing business performance and opportunities by generating one or more series of heat map views of business components by a plurality of dimensions, comprising:

associating information related to a plurality of dimensions with one or more business components;

defining, by a processor, one or more dimensions from the plurality of dimensions, defining including at least selecting one or more dimensions from the plurality of dimensions, said plurality of dimensions including at least a time dimension, as-is and to-be dimension, and directional change for better or worse dimension;

generating one or more series of heat map views of the said business components by said defined one of more dimensions,

wherein a heat map view by time dimension if selected shows a heat map per interval over a selected period, a heat map view by as-is and to-be dimension if selected shows enterprise strategy and current status, a heat map view by directional change for better or worse dimension if selected shows whether a business is becoming better, worse, or staying the same; and

presenting said series of heat map views of the business components by said selected one or more dimensions.

2. The method of claim 1, further including:

discovering one or more heat maps similar to or different from said one or more series of heat maps.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of defining further includes allowing a user to select one or more dimensions, and configuring said one or more dimensions selected by the user.

4. The method of claim 1, further including identifying one or more transformation opportunities utilizing said series of heat map views of the business components.

5. The method of claim 1, further including detecting heat map changes utilizing said series of heat map views of the business components.

6. The method of claim 1, further including evaluating project business value utilizing said series of heat map views of the business components.

7. The method of claim 1, further including identifying geographical competency utilizing said series of heat map views of the business components.

8. The method of claim 1, further including benchmarking industry values utilizing said series of heat map views of the business components.

9. The method of claim 1, further including:

determining one or more variances associated with the information related to said one or more dimensions of said one or more business components.

10. The method of claim 9, further including:

identifying one or more transformations to said one or more business components based on said one or more variances.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of presenting includes providing visualization to distinguish positively and negatively affected business components by said one or more dimensions.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein said one or more dimensions include one or more business metrics.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of presenting includes presenting heat of said one or more business components by said one or more dimensions, the heat of said one or more business components representing a degree to which said one or more business components are underperforming compared to a selected performance level.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the selected performance level includes a performance level of a peer in industry.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the selected performance level includes an expectation goal set by an entity.

16. A system for analyzing business performance and opportunities by generating one or more series of heat map views of business components by a plurality of dimensions, comprising:

a processor;

a configuration module operable execute on the processor and to define a plurality of dimensions of one or more business components, said plurality of dimensions including at least a time dimension, as-is and to-be dimension, and directional change for better or worse dimension;

a dimension organizer module operable to transform a business component map comprising said one or more business components into a view with said plurality of dimensions to generate one or more series of heat map views of the said business components by said plurality of dimensions, wherein a heat map view by time dimension if selected shows a heat map per interval over a selected period, a heat map view by as-is and to-be dimension if selected shows enterprise strategy and current status, a heat map view by directional change for better or worse dimension if selected shows whether a business is becoming better, worse, or staying the same; and

a multiple-dimension heat map presenter module operable to present said one or more series of heat map views in different dimensional perspective.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the dimension organizer module extracts heat map data associated with said plurality of dimensions of said one or more business components to generate said one or more series of heat map views.

18. The system of claim 16, further including a variance detection module operable to determine variances of heat data of said one or more business components between said plurality of dimensions.

19. The system of claim 16, further including a opportunity identification module operable to determine one or more business transformation opportunities in said one or more business components based on said generated one or more series of heat map views.

20. The system of claim 16, wherein the multiple-dimension heat map presenter module is operable to provide visualization to distinguish positively and negatively affected business components by said plurality of dimensions.

21. The system of claim 16, wherein said plurality of dimensions includes business metrics.

22. The system of claim 16, wherein the multiple-dimension heat map presenter module is operable to present heat of said one or more business components by said plurality of dimensions, the heat of said one or more business components representing a degree to which said one or more business components are underperforming compared to a selected performance level.

23. The system of claim 22, wherein the selected performance level includes a performance level of a peer in industry.

24. The system of claim 22, wherein the selected performance level includes an expectation goal set by an entity.

25. The system of claim 16, further including a knowledge base module operable to store a plurality of business models associated with said one or more business components.

26. A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform a method for analyzing business performance and opportunities by generating one or more series of heat map views of business components by a plurality of dimensions, comprising:

associating information related to a plurality of dimensions with one or more business components;

defining one or more dimensions from the plurality of dimensions, defining including at least selecting one or more dimensions from the plurality of dimensions, said plurality of dimensions including at least a time dimension, as-is and to-be dimension, and directional change for better or worse dimension;

generating one or more series of heat map views of the said business components by said defined one of more dimensions, wherein a heat map view by time dimension if selected shows a heat map per interval over a selected period, a heat map view by as-is and to-be dimension if selected shows enterprise strategy and current status, a heat map view by directional change for better or worse dimension if selected shows whether a business is becoming better, worse, or staying the same; and

presenting said series of heat map views of the business components by said selected one or more dimensions.

27. The program storage device of claim 26, further including:

discovering one or more heat maps similar to or different from said one or more series of heat maps.

28. The program storage device of claim 26, wherein the step of defining further includes allowing a user to select one or more dimensions, and configuring said one or more dimensions selected by the user.

29. The program storage device of claim 26, further including identifying one or more transformation opportunities utilizing said series of heat map views of the business components.

30. The program storage device of claim 26, further including detecting heat map changes utilizing said series of heat map views of the business components.

31. The program storage device of claim 26, further including evaluating project business value utilizing said series of heat map views of the business components.

32. The program storage device of claim 26, further including identifying geographical competency utilizing said series of heat map views of the business components.

33. The program storage device of claim 26, further including benchmarking industry values utilizing said series of heat map views of the business components.

34. The program storage device of claim 26, further including:

determining one or more variances associated with the information related to said one or more dimensions of said one or more business components.

35. The program storage device of claim 34, further including:

identifying one or more transformations to said one or more business components based on said one or more variances.