Patent ID: 8412556

Claim:
A computer-facilitated method for analyzing projects in a business entity including multiple groups and multiple levels of decision making authority, comprising: receiving by a processor project identification data that identifies a particular project; performing a project categorization of the project to categorize the project based on one or more of the size, general risks, and complexity of the project, including the processor: presenting a set of questions regarding one or more of the size, general risks, and complexity of the project to a user; receiving responses to the set of questions regarding the size, general risks, and complexity of the project from the user; and automatically determining a project categorization of the project based at least on the received responses to the set of questions; the processor automatically determining whether a computer-facilitated anti-corruption risk assessment is required based on the project categorization determined from the received user input regarding one or more of the size, general risks, and complexity of the project; only if it is determined that the computer-facilitated anti-corruption risk assessment is required based on the project categorization determined from the received user input, the processor performing an anti-corruption risk assessment of the project to categorize an anti-corruption risk associated with the project, including the processor automatically determining the anti-corruption risk based at least on project categorization determined from the received user input; performing a group-specific risk assessment of the project to determine from a plurality of risk classes a risk class specific to a particular one of the multiple groups of the business entity based on the risk associated with the project relevant to the particular group of the business entity; and the processor accessing an escalation level algorithm and automatically applying the escalation level algorithm to (a) the project categorization determined from the received user input regarding one or more of the size, general risks, and complexity of the project, (b) the anti-corruption risk assessment, if performed, and (c) the group-specific risk assessment to automatically determine a limit of authority escalation level, wherein the limit of authority escalation level indicates a particular level of decision making authority of the business entity required to approve the project.