System and method for using a component business model to organize an enterprise

US8326665B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• David L. Cohn · Hawthorne, US
• Robert D. Dill · Raleigh, US
• David Flaxer · Dobbs Ferry, US
• George M. Galambos · Montréal, CA
• Robert H. Guttman · Stamford, US
• Raman Harishankar · Blacklick, US
• David Kress · Rochester, US
• Christopher Murasso · Eastchester, US
• Jeffrey A. Neville · Chicago, US
• Clifford A. Pickover · Yorktown Heights, US
• George Edmund Pohle · Morristown, US
• Guy Jonathan James Rackham · New York, US
• Shanker Ramamurthy · New York, US
• John R. Smith · New Hyde Park, US
• Stephen Michael Smith · Dublin, US
• Laurie A. Tropiano · Stamford, US
• John George Vergo · Yorktown Heights, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 15, 2005
• Grant date: Dec 4, 2012
• Expiry date: Jan 16, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P90/80
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system and method is described for using a component business model to partition a business into non-overlapping components, and then allocating different components to appropriate organizing strategies, based on attribute values assigned to each component. In the best mode of implementation there are two attributes: whether or not the component differentiates the business within the market place; and whether the component is industry standard or is tailored by the organization. These attributes and their values map the components of the business to a matrix. Based on the combination of attribute values in each cell of the matrix, available organizing strategies are also mapped to the matrix, thereby identifying for each component an appropriate organizing strategy.