Patent ID: 7337120
Filing Date: 2008-02-26
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: obtaining human performance related data from at least one remotely located application service provider; organizing the data into a plurality of metrics, the plurality of metrics including non-user-modifiable individual, group and enterprise workforce metrics each comprising an indicator of individual, group and enterprise performance toward predefined workforce business goals, respectively, and user-modifiable individual, group and enterprise metrics each comprising an indicator of individual, group and enterprise performance toward personalized business goals, respectively, the plurality of metrics organized by metric category; adding a user-modifiable individual, group or enterprise metric to the plurality of metrics; displaying a scorecard section operable to view the plurality of non-user-modifiable individual, group or enterprise workforce metrics; displaying a metric section operable to view the user-modifiable individual, group and enterprise metrics; displaying an intentions section operable to register a personalized business goal to be completed by a predetermined date and influenced by at least one of the plurality of metrics, and business goal data associated with the personalized business goal; preparing an interpretation of the data organized into the plurality of metrics based on the registered business goal data and the obtained human performance related data, the interpretation including an automatically determined recommended action that helps to complete the personalized business goal and an automatically calculated estimated cost savings to be realized when the personalized business goal is completed; displaying an analysis section operable to graphically display individual, group or enterprise performance of a metric category in comparison to an industry benchmark, and to display a list of metrics in the metric category and the recommended action or estimated cost savings; and generating a survey based upon the recommended action.