Patent ID: 8548837
Filing Date: 2013-10-01
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for managing and tracking changes in an organization, the method comprising the steps of: providing a web based application management tool implemented in a processor and operable to illustrate and quantify a value of transforming an enterprise business model from a current “as-is” state to a proposed “to-be” state; capturing and displaying current resources of the organization and how they relate to an organizations' mission in real-time; directly tracking which specific current resources directly support which current capabilities of the organization; defining at least one customer requirement for an enhancement to an enterprise architecture of the organization, wherein implementation of the enhancement transforms the enterprise business model to the proposed “to-be” state; evaluating the current capabilities to determine whether at least one of the current capabilities is sufficient to provide the enhancement to the enterprise architecture; when at least one of the current capabilities is not sufficient to provide the enhancement, identifying at least one new capability that is sufficient to provide the enhancement; determining whether at least one of the current resources of the organization satisfy the at least one new capability; when at least one of the current resources satisfy the at least one new capability, defining a relationship with the web based application management tool between the at least one current resource and the at least one new capability, wherein the defining the relationship comprises: estimating at least one of a revenue increase and a cost saving associated with implementation of the at least one new capability to provide the enhancement and achieve the proposed “to-be” state; determining a value provided by the at least one new capability based upon the defined one or more metrics, the assigned weights for each of the at least one current resource's contributions, an implementation cost,and the at least one of the revenue increase and the cost saving; projecting an alternative value based upon implementation cost and at least one of revenue increase and cost saving for at least one alternative combination of at least one capability and at least one resource that are sufficient to provide the enhancement to the enterprise architecture, wherein the alternative value is further based on one or more metrics and assigned weights for the at least one resource's contributions to the at least one capability; comparing a value of the current “as-is” state of the enterprise business model to the value and the alternative value of the proposed “to-be” state of the enterprise business model for implementation of the enhancement to determine an optimum qualitative value; choosing to stay with the current “as is” state, adopt the value of the proposed “to-be” state, or adopt the alternative value of the proposed “to-be” state based on which option is determined to provide the optimum qualitative value; using a database to store a hierarchical relationship of a goal, the value of the current “as-is” state, the value of the proposed “to-be” state, the alternative value of the “to-be” state, the current capabilities, the at least one new capability, current resources of the organization, and the at least one of the current resource, the hierarchical relationship having a plurality of levels with one or more dynamic links that differ between the plurality of levels; displaying the hierarchical relationship between the goal, the values which are associated with the goal, the current capabilities and the at least one new capability, which represent critical functions for ensuring delivery of the values, and the current and at least one current resource, which enable the current capabilities and the at least one new capability; capturing and linking process measurements from one or more external modeling tools to the database to allow process performance of the chosen current “as-is” state or proposed “to-be” state to be accessed by the system: and updating the hierarchical relationship to include a hierarchical relationship between the at least one capability and the at least one resource that comprise the option determined to provide the optimum qualitative value, wherein the determining the value and alternative value of the proposed “to-be” state comprises illustrating and quantifying the value of transforming the enterprise business model of the organization from the current “as-is” state to the proposed “to-be” state; and the goal is defined as a corporate directive establishing a final end point of an enterprise change, the value and alternative value of the proposed “to-be” state are defined as a customer value, the at least one new capability is a strategic capability that represents critical functions that the organization must be capable of performing to insure delivery of the customer value, and the at least one current resource is defined as a physical component that must be present and supports the at least one new capability.