Patent ID: 8150726

Claim:
In a computer architecture, a computer-implemented method for determining what impact a change in performance of a business capability has on an organizational strategy, the method comprising: an act of a computing system accessing a schema-based model for an organization, the schema-based model modeling a plurality of interrelated business capabilities for the organization, each business capability representing a portion of what work the organization does, the work of a subset of the business capabilities contributing to a strategy for the organization, the computing system including at least one processor; an act of the computing system accessing a schema-based representation of the organizational strategy, the schema-based representation of the organizational strategy defined in accordance with a strategy schema, the strategy schema defining various attributes for organizational strategies, including defining at least metrics for evaluating the performance of the organizational strategy and schema-based links to the subset of business capabilities contributing to the performance of the organizational strategy; an act of the computing system accessing a schema-based initiative to implement a portion of the organizational strategy, the schema-based initiative defining planned changes to one or more of the subset of business capabilities; an act of the computing system determining that the performance improvement from planned changes to one or more of the subset of business capabilities outweighs the cost of the planned changes to the one or more of the subset of business capabilities, the determination including: an act of the computing system simulating the planned changes to the one or more of the subset of business capabilities of the schema-based initiative; an act of the computing system determining property values for the schema-based links for the selected subset of capabilities, the property values determined from the performance of the subset of business capabilities based on the simulated planned changes to the one of the of the subset of business capabilities; an act of the computing system calculating the metrics for the organizational strategy from the property values for the schema-based links; and an act of the computing system comparing the calculated metrics to planned performance changes for the organizational strategy to determine the actual impact that the planned performance changes to the one or more of the subset of business capabilities has on the performance of the organizational strategy; and an act of applying the planned changes to the one or more of the subset of business capabilities in response to the determination so as to improve the performance of the organizational strategy.