Patent ID: 8032403
Filing Date: 2011-10-04
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for using a component business model (CBM) architecture to provide a staff assignment service to an enterprise, comprising: describing, using a computer, a staff assignment scenario in terms of a plurality of process steps; describing, using said computer, resources available to the enterprise and respective commercialization mechanisms applicable to said staff assignment scenario in terms of business components in a CBM architecture of the enterprise, said business components comprising a staffing network; identifying, using said computer, for each business component of the CBM architecture in the staffing network service functionalities supporting each of said plurality of process steps; establishing, using said computer, collaborative links among said business components sufficient to enable said service functionalities within the staffing network; using the staffing network to assign staff to a project of the enterprise, by presenting to a user a display matrix for correlating said plurality of process steps along a first axis of said display matrix and correlating said respective business components of the CBM architecture along a second axis of said display matrix, wherein each of said service functionalities is mapped to a respective cell on said matrix corresponding to the business component providing the service functionality and the process step being supported by the service functionality, and enabling the user to visualize collaborative interactions between said business components of the CBM architecture, said collaborative interactions implementing a staffing lattice which defines collaboration among components of the enterprise and through which said staff assignment services are provided to said project of the enterprise, wherein said CBM architecture provides a persistent repository of said staffing network service functionalities: and providing a software solution for servicing said staff assignment scenario, wherein said software solution is adapted to accommodate distinctions between said business components of the CBM architecture, supporting for each separate and non-overlapping component the service functionalities provided by the component and being separately adaptable for each component to support changes in the manner of providing said service functionalities.