Patent ID: 7933795

Claim:
A method for generating communication frequencies, said method comprising: a processor of a computer apparatus generating communication frequencies among groups of a multiplicity of groups of an organization, wherein the organization comprises a multiplicity of members, a multiplicity of departments, and the multiplicity of groups, wherein each member is an individual who belongs to a department of the multiplicity of departments, wherein each department comprises a plurality of members of the multiplicity of members, and wherein each group comprises a plurality of departments of the multiplicity of departments; and said processor displaying a graph on a display device of the computer apparatus, said graph depicting the generated communication frequencies among groups, wherein said generating communication frequencies among groups comprises: obtaining communication frequencies among members of the multiplicity of members as consisting of a number of communication interchanges occurring in a specified first period of time for each pair of members of the multiplicity of members, generating communication frequencies among departments of the multiplicity of departments as consisting of the obtained communication frequencies among members belonging to different departments for each pair of departments of the multiplicity of departments, and generating communication frequencies among groups of the multiplicity of groups as consisting of the generated communication frequencies among departments comprised by different groups for each pair of groups of the multiplicity of groups, said method further comprising: calculating an achievement ratio consisting of a ratio of a total number of non-zero communication frequencies among different groups for each pair of groups of the multiplicity of groups to a total number of links among groups, each link defining a cooperative relationship among different groups for each pair of groups of the multiplicity of groups; and determining that the calculated achievement ratio is not less than a specified targeted achievement ratio to check whether a set management strategy is practiced and whether a current organizational structure matches said set management strategy.