Patent ID: 6578004
Filing Date: 2003-06-10
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
A method comprising:storing data associated with performance metrics of a plurality of information technology (IT) projects; generating a plurality of scorecards for a plurality of IT portfolios, using said stored data, wherein said generating of scorecards comprises generating a plurality of rows and columns for each of said scorecards, and populating measures of the performance metrics of each IT project in columns of a row, and wherein said generating of scorecards further comprises generating, for one or more of the scorecards, a cross-project composite measure for at least one of the performance metrics, and populating the generated cross-project composite measure in the corresponding column of a cross-project summary row, with each scorecard showing where IT projects of an IT portfolio stand on said performance metrics, each IT portfolio having a subset of said IT projects; generating one or more investment maps of said IT portfolios, using also said stored data, showing where said IT portfolios stand on a plurality of performance metrics; and facilitating navigation from a selected one of said one or more investment maps to a corresponding one of said scorecards for a selected IT portfolio by a user of the selected investment map through selection of a representation of the IT portfolio.