System for implementing business transformation in an enterprise

• US 8,214,792 B2
• Filed: 03/26/2009
• Issued: 07/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Antoun, Samuel, Bate, Graham Paul, Channabasavaiah, Kishore, Ghosh, Shuvanker, Giesen, Edward H B, Guinan, Thomas Franklin, Harishankar, Raman, Holley, Kerrie Lamont, Kramer, Joseph David, Leung, Ying Tat, Lyman, Kelly Anne, Sanz, Jorge L. C., Terrizzano, Ignacio Gabriel
• Primary Examiner(s): DENG, ANNA CHEN
• Application Number:
  US12/411,909
• Publication Number:
  US 20100251205A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,195 Days
• Field of Search: 717100-107
• US Class Current: 717/100
• 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 the component;

a connections view for viewing collaboration in a component business model (CBM) map;

a heat map view for displaying host maps on the CBM map, wherein said heat map view is adapted to compute a composite component score for a component, Ci, according to the formula

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

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

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