Patent ID: 7792694

Claim:
A method for assessing and implementing an organizational transformation, the organizational transformation process operating on a host system computer of an organization over a communication network, the method comprising: identifying, via an application executing on the host system computer at least one process area for each management area targeted for assessment; receiving, via the application, at least one solution for the at least one process area, wherein a pairing of a solution to a process area represents a functional area; determining, via the application, a need for organizational transformation at a functional area level of the functional area, comprising: ranking each of the functional areas according to a perceived need for the organizational transformation, the ranking comprising: receiving, from client system computers in communication with the host system, values each of which represents a perceived level of impact that facets of the functional area have on the organization; and calculating, via the application executing on the host system computer, an overall score from the values by averaging the values for each of the client system computers and applying weights to averaged valued based upon a management level attributed to each user of the client system computers; wherein upon agreement of the overall score by the users, the overall score is applied as a ranking value to the functional area, wherein a highest ranking value represents a greatest level of impact on the organization; and wherein upon disagreement of the overall score by the users, providing a voting component to each of the client system computers via the application, the method further comprising applying proposed weighting values received from the users via the voting component to facets of the functional area and averaging the proposed weighting values to derive a new overall score; evaluating, via the application, each of the at least one process area against each of the at least one corresponding solution and calculating any remaining performance gaps identified based upon the evaluating; evaluating, via the application, an implementation capability for each of the at least one solution; determining a need for performing an organizational transformation with respect to at least one of the functional areas, the need based upon the overall score and results of evaluating a corresponding implementation solution; and outputting, via the application, results of each of the assessments to at least one of the client system computers.