Patent ID: 7991639
Filing Date: 2011-08-02
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for determining a readiness of a target organization to utilize an Information Technology (IT) asset, comprising: identifying baseline criteria for determining the readiness of the target organization to utilize the IT asset; refining the baseline criteria to yield readiness criteria by removing individual ones of the baseline criteria that are non-applicable to the IT asset and defining applicable ones of the baseline criteria with respect to a relationship between technology attributable to the IT asset and known data within the target organization and an industry of the target organization; assigning a numerical score to each of the readiness criteria for the target organization; computing, with a computer device, a readiness value for the target organization using a numerical average of the scores; comparing the readiness value to a threshold value to determine the readiness of the target organization, the threshold value representing an average of readiness values for comparable organizations to the target organization that have successfully utilized the IT asset; and generating at least one graphical depiction showing the readiness of the target organization for presentation to a user.