Patent ID: 8024275

Claim:
A system comprising: a processor; a process priority definition engine, executed via the processor, to generate a priority definition for each of a plurality of sub-processes of a business process, wherein each priority definition is a function of real-time data and includes at least one threshold value; and a process urgency calculator, executed via the processor, to calculate a priority for each of the plurality of sub-processes based on a cost of the respective sub-process and the respective priority definition, and to aggregate the priorities of each of the plurality of sub-processes to determine an aggregated priority of the business process; and a display engine, executed via the processor, to generate a display for an owner of the business process and a display for an owner of at least one of the plurality of sub-processes, wherein the display for the owner of the business process includes a display of a representation of the aggregated priority of the business process, and a hierarchical display of a representation of the priority for each of the plurality of sub-processes, the representation of the priority of each of the plurality of sub-processes to be hierarchically displayed based on the association between each sub-process and the business process, and wherein the display for the owner of at least one of the plurality of sub-processes is based, at least in part, on the priority of the at least one sub-process and wherein a display of a representation of the aggregated priority of the business process indicates the whether the cost of at least one of the plurality of sub-processes is higher than its respective at least one threshold value.