Patent ID: 8660870

Claim:
In a data processing system, a method for modeling a business transformation process, said method comprising: receiving as input, in a memory of said data processing system, multiple operational resource values associated with a specified transformation process to be applied to a business enterprise, wherein said multiple operational resource values include at least a first operational resource value expressed as a management ratio between human agents and human supervisors and at least a second operational resource value expressed as a cost ratio between labor costs and technology costs; determining an estimated cost of application of the specified transformation process to the business enterprise by comparatively processing, utilizing a transformation modeling module executing on a processor of said data processing system, said multiple operational resource values with respect to one or more target operational resource values, wherein said comparatively processing includes comparatively processing the first and second operational resource values with respect to an industry-specific, management ratio benchmark value and an industry-specific, cost ratio benchmark value, respectively, and wherein: said one or more target operational resource values include an enterprise type identifier; said comparatively processing step comprises selecting said one or more target operational resource values in accordance with said enterprise type identifier; and outputting said estimated cost.