Patent ID: 7308435

Claim:
A computer system for modeling the structure of an enterprise, the system comprising: a first class of objects, an object of said first class, representing an organizational unit of the enterprise, wherein said first class comprises a method for assigning and/or deassigning to objects of said first class, at least one attribute based on a group of attribute types, the group of attribute types comprising: a first type describing work to be performed by the unit, wherein the work describes a distribution of labor; a second type describing a legal entity, which said unit represents; a third type describing disciplinary or line management properties of the unit; a fourth type describing a financial responsibility of the unit; and a fifth type describing a location, which said unit represents, wherein the system further comprises means for assigning and/or deassigning to objects of said first class at least one property depending on the assigned at least one attribute, in order to model the structure of the enterprise.