Patent ID: 8386294

Claim:
A system for determining a level of optimality for countries in which to perform a specified business function, the system comprising: a data storage to store a composite business environment index, a composite input resources index, and an innovation index; a composite index creator to receive a capital index that is a measure of a country's foreign direct investment flows and capital markets and is scored using metrics that include a corruption metric, the composite index creator to remove the corruption metric from the capital index and rescore remaining metrics to create a non-corruption index, wherein the composite index creator is to generate the composite input resources index from a talent index, a natural resource index and the non-corruption index; a mapping engine to receive the specified business function and input factors related to the specified business function and to select at least two of the composite business environment index, the composite input resources index, and the innovation index based on the input factors; and a matrix generator to determine, by a processor, a level of optimality for each of the countries based on scores in the at least two selected indices, wherein the level of optimality indicates a measure of success in achieving the specified business function, and wherein the matrix generator is to: determine a first value for each of the countries from a first selected index of the at least two selected indices; determine a second value for each of the countries from a second selected index of the at least two selected indices; and generate a country attractiveness matrix to determine the level of optimality for each country, wherein the country attractiveness matrix depicts the first and second values on an x-y plane.