Patent ID: 8108233

Claim:
A method for generating an integrated view, comprising: arranging components of a business operation into a component map; receiving information corresponding to a set of financial and staffing variables for each of the components; receiving votes regarding a differentiation factor and an effectiveness factor of each of the components according to a predetermined scale; generating, via a computer device, from the component map, individual heat maps for every one of the differentiation factor, the effectiveness factor, and the set of financial and staffing variables using the votes and the information, wherein every one of the individual heat maps is a graphical mapping of components in which the components are ranked based on a specific factor or a specific variable; generating, via the computer device, an integrated heat map by combining at least two of the individual heat maps to answer a particular query, all of the individual heat maps used to generate the integrated heat map being based on different ones of the differentiation factor, the effectiveness factor, and the set of financial and staffing variables using the votes and the information; and generating, via the computer device, the integrated view containing the integrated heat map and radar views of the individual heat maps.