Ensuring resilience of a business function by managing resource availability of a mission-critical project

US10176453B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Sreyash D. Kenkre · Bengaluru, IN
• Sameep Mehta · Bengaluru, IN
• Krishnasuri Narayanam · Kanchinakote, IN
• Vinayaka Pandit · Bengaluru, IN

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 3, 2018
• Grant date: Jan 8, 2019
• Expiry date: Jan 3, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/06313
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method and associated systems for ensuring resilience of a business function manages resource availability for projects that perform mission-critical tasks for the business function. The method and systems create a model that reveals dependencies among types of resources needed by a project, such that the model describes how the unavailability of one instance of a resource propagates disruptions to other instances of the same type of resource. This model automatically identifies a resource type as being critical if a disruption of an instance of the resource type would render a project task infeasible, and if restoring that task would incur unacceptable cost. The model may also automatically identify a first resource type as being critical for a second resource type when disruption of the first resource type reduces the available capacity of the second resource type to an unacceptable level.