Assessing the maturity of an industry architecture model

US8532963B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Muthulakshmi Bhandari · Bengaluru, IN
• Raman Harishankar · Blacklick, US
• Jayashree Jaishankar · Bengaluru, IN
• Ashish Mungi · Bengaluru, IN
• Siddharth N. Purohit · Allen, US
• Jorge L. C. Sanz · Roseville, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 7, 2009
• Grant date: Sep 10, 2013
• Expiry date: Aug 2, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/06
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system creates and maintains an industry business architecture model over a network. The system defines specific levels of maturity for the model. Associations, relationships, and linkages between content elements are also determined. From these, a specific level of aggregate maturity is defined according to an algorithm.