Patent ID: 9619766
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04L

Claim:
1. A system comprising a hardware device which tracks and manages changes in an enterprise, the system comprising: a CPU, a computer readable memory and a computer readable storage media; a web-based management tool programmed to illustrate and quantify a value of transforming an enterprise business model from a current “as-is” state to a proposed “to-be” business model, which is implemented on the hardware device and uses the CPU to determine that the “to-be” capabilities add value to an enterprise, and to what degree such value is added; first program instructions that identify a new enterprise asset to an enterprise architecture, the enterprise architecture comprising defined relationships between customer values, capabilities of the enterprise, and resources of the enterprise, wherein: second program instructions that determine whether the capabilities satisfy requirements of the new enterprise asset; third program instructions that identify one or more new capabilities corresponding to the new enterprise asset; fourth program instructions that identify one or more new resources corresponding to the one or more new capabilities; fifth program instructions that implement the one or more new capabilities and the one or more new resources; sixth program instructions that update the hierarchical relationship to include relationships between the new enterprise asset, the one or more new capabilities, and the one or seventh program instructions that track the one or more new capabilities and the one or more new resources; more new resources based on assigned performance based metrics; eighth program instructions that define and test the assigned performance based metrics in a prototype environment to obtain estimates on performance of the one or more new capabilities and the one or more new resources; ninth program instructions that modify the obtained estimates on performance using real performance information as the real performance information is observed from the implementing the one or more new capabilities and the one or more new resources; and tenth program instructions that determine whether relationships between the one or more new capabilities and the one or more new resources satisfy the assigned performance based metrics, wherein the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth program instructions are stored on the computer readable storage media for execution by the CPU via the computer readable memory, and a graphical user interface (GUI) to display the “to-be” business model and resources to support capabilities of the transformed “to-be” enterprise, to view information contained and managed by an e-Business Value Web (eBVW) database hierarchy, and to provide a visual representation of the hierarchy relationship, wherein the graphical user interface includes control buttons configured to permit traversal of the hierarchy relationship by a user, wherein the system is operable to provide a first display page on the graphical user interface for the customer values, a second display page on the graphical user interface for the capabilities and a third display page on the graphical user interface for the resources for the defined hierarchical relationship, wherein the control buttons are operable to change the display on the graphical user interface between the first, second and third display pages in response to operation of the control buttons by the user, wherein the system is operable to provide a traceability scale on each of the display pages that shows a level of the display page currently being displayed within the defined hierarchical relationship, and wherein the system is operable to provide a download mechanism on each of the display pages to provide for downloading display data shown on a currently displayed one of the display pages into database formats other than eBVW database format for at least one of maintenance and reports.