Patent Document ID: 8566147
Application ID: 11257824
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for determining the progress of adoption of an on-demand capabilities model by an organization, said method comprising: receiving input data from an entity, said input data describing a current state, a target state, and a modelled state for the organization, said current state pertaining to current capabilities of the organization, said target state pertaining to capabilities that the organization wants to possess at an end of a specified period of time, said modelled state being a state of conformity by the organization to required characteristics; a computer processor analyzing the received input data to determine parameters pertaining to the current state, the modelled state, and the target state; and displaying a graph that depicts said parameters, wherein the graph depicts said parameters for each business capability of a plurality of business capabilities, wherein the graph comprises a three-dimensional perspective view of an alignment of a business capability of the organization with respect to an information technology (IT) capability of the organization, and wherein the method further comprises: determining a first metric equal to a numerical value associated with a degree of change required for the organization to achieve the target state for the business capability in comparison with a degree of change required across the IT capability; and determining a second metric equal to a numerical value associated with a degree to which a business implementation of the on-demand capability lags that of the IT capability, wherein the graph comprises the first metric and the second metric.