Patent ID: 7730023

Claim:
A computer storage product with a computer-readable medium to direct a computer to function in a specified manner, comprising executable instructions to: construct a strategy map characterizing a presumed causal link between a first business metric and a second business metric; identify a first pattern within data associated with the first business metric; locate a second pattern within data associated with the second business metric; present a first graph of data associated with the first business metric; display a second graph of data associated with the second business metric; show a first icon adjacent to the first graph, wherein the first icon visually demonstrates the first pattern within the first graph; render a second icon adjacent to the second graph, wherein the second icon visually demonstrates the second pattern within the second graph; and supply a relationship icon between the first graph and the second graph, wherein the relationship icon visually demonstrates a pattern relationship between the first graph and the second graph, wherein the relationship icon is selected from icons representing a concurrent increase in the first pattern and the second pattern, icons representing a concurrent decrease in the first pattern and the second pattern, icons representing a divergent pattern between the first pattern and the second pattern, icons representing potentially correlated outlier, values within the first pattern and the second pattern, and an icon representing a lack of correlation between the first pattern and the second pattern.