Patent ID: 7957996
Filing Date: 2011-06-07
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of determining resource placement, comprising: determining plurality of assessment criteria for assessing each of a plurality of candidate locations for placing resources for a product; creating a product profile for the product, the product profile comprising an importance value assigned to each of a first plurality of the assessment criteria and to each of a second plurality of the assessment criteria, the first plurality pertaining to local skills for the product and the second plurality pertaining to a marketplace of the product; creating a geography profile for each of the candidate locations, each geography profile comprising a score assigned to each of the first plurality of the assessment criteria and to each of the second plurality of the assessment criteria, each score in each of the geography profiles assigned to indicate how well the candidate location meets the assessment criterion to which the score is assigned; using computer-readable program code executed by a computer to programmatically compute a skills gap score for each of the candidate locations, further comprising: using computer-readable program code executed by the computer to programmatically compute an opportunity gap score for each of the candidate locations, further comprising: using computer-readable program code executed by the computer to programmatically select a particular location from among the candidate locations for placing the resources, based on the programmatically-computed skills gap score for each of the candidate locations and the programmatically-computed opportunity gap score for each of the candidate locations.