Managing organizational resources

US7987110B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Moises Cases · Austin, US
• Candice L. Coletrane · Durham, US
• Bhyrav M. Mutnury · Austin, US
• Scott Lee Winters · Austin, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 25, 2007
• Grant date: Jul 26, 2011
• Expiry date: May 22, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q50/01
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing organizational resources. The process combines social group data with management information data to form social network data, wherein social group data is derived from interactions among a plurality of users of a social group. The process analyzes the social network data to identify associations among the plurality of users, and generates a multidimensional social network model using the associations among the plurality of users. Thereafter, the process presents a set of recommendations for allocation of the organizational resources, wherein the set of recommendations are derived from the social network model.