Patent Document ID: 8010399
Application ID: 10767191
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for analyzing a business initiative for a business network including business locations including test sites that have implemented the business initiative during a predetermined test period and non-test group sites that have not implemented the initiative, each of the sites being associated with a set of attributes, the method comprising: generating test site fragments based on the value of each attribute and performance value for each test site; generating control site fragments based on the value of each attribute and performance value for each control group site, where the non-test group sites include a set of control group sites; determining the strength relationship of the between each attribute and the performance values of the test sites based on an analysis between selected test site fragments and corresponding control site fragments; generating, by a server, a list of the attributes ranked based on the strength relationship between the attribute and performance value for each control group site; configuring a model to predict the performance value of the sites based on the ranked list of attributes; and instructing the server to apply the model to the non-test group sites to predict the performance levels of the non-test group sites, wherein such prediction can be used to decide whether to implement the business initiative.