Patent Document ID: 7987110
Application ID: 11828111
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer implemented method for managing organizational resources, the computer implemented method comprising: receiving data regarding a plurality of interactions between one or more users of a plurality of users in a social group using a plurality of sensor devices to form social group data, wherein the social group data includes information regarding a set of users involved in one or more interactions in the plurality of interactions, a frequency of one or more interactions in the plurality of interactions, a type of one or more interactions in the plurality of interactions, content from one or more interactions in the plurality of interactions, and a length of time of one or more interactions in the plurality of interactions, wherein the plurality of interactions include conversations between one or more users in the plurality of users, tasks one or more users in the plurality of users have worked together, and events one or more users in the plurality of users have attended, and wherein the plurality of sensor devices comprise video cameras, identification badges, identification readers, and biometric sensors; combining the social group data with management information data to form social network data; analyzing the social network data to identify a plurality of associations among the plurality of users, wherein analyzing the social network data further comprises identifying one or more interactions in the plurality of interactions between one or more users of the plurality of users to identify one or more associations in the plurality of associations; assigning, using a processing unit, a set of weightings to one or more of the plurality of associations among the plurality of users, wherein a weighting in the set of weightings assigned to an association in the one or more of the plurality of associations between users in the plurality of users is based on the information in the social group data; generating a multidimensional social network model using the plurality of associations among the plurality of users, wherein the multidimensional social network model includes a set of business locations of one or more users in the plurality of users, a set of skills of one or more users in the plurality of users, and a set of tasks being performed by one or more users in the plurality of users; presenting a set of recommendations for allocation of the organizational resources including one or more users in the plurality of users, wherein the set of recommendations are derived from the social network model and are based on the set of weightings; and generating a simulation of performance of the set of tasks while removing a business location in the set of business locations from the multidimensional social network model, wherein the set of recommendations include recommendations regarding allocation of the organizational resources to complete of the set of tasks without the business location.