Patent ID: 8843936

Claim:
A method for automatically identifying critical resources of an organization, wherein said organization comprises a plurality of resource instances, wherein a resource instance of said plurality of resource instances is associated with a resource type of a plurality of resource types, wherein said organization comprises a plurality of projects, wherein a project of said plurality of projects comprises a demand for a capacity of a resource type of said plurality of resource types, and wherein a disruption of a first resource instance of said plurality of resource instances results in an unavailability of a unit of a second instance of said plurality of resource instances, said method comprising: a processor of a computer system receiving one or more dependency relationships, wherein a dependency relationship of said one or more dependency relationships relates an independent resource instance of said plurality of resource instances with a dependent resource instance of said plurality of resource instances, and wherein a disruption of said independent resource instance results in an unavailability of a unit of said dependent resource instance; said processor determining a disrupted capacity of a disrupted resource type of said plurality of resource types, wherein said disrupted capacity is a function of an initial disruption of an initially disrupted resource instance of said plurality of resource instances, and wherein said disrupted capacity is a further function of said one or more dependency relationships; said processor categorizing said initially disrupted resource instance as being critical for said disrupted resource type, wherein said categorizing is a function of said disrupted capacity of said disrupted resource type.