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AssigneeMood International Limited
InventorsSimon Hodgson, Richard Whittington
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The invention relates to the generation of a graphical or visual display to represent selected and/or all identified capabilities of a particular organization. The method of the invention involves identifying and representing the capabilities visually, in conjunction with resources required to be provided to and provided by the capabilities. Linkages between the capabilities are also represented visually and selection of the same or capabilities allows the generation and display of relevant information. Navigation through and selection of the visual display features is rendered possible by a navigation mechanism which includes a display comprising a number of user selectable icons. The displays are typically generated via software on a display area.
A modelling method for generating a structural, hierarchic visual representation of an organisation, said organisation represented by a series of organisation capabilities, said capabilities defined in terms of input and output resource definitions, said method including the steps of;
A method of visually representing an organisation using the following steps;
Apparatus for the generation of a visual representation of an organisation in terms of capabilities within the organisation and linkages between the same and resources required by and provided by said capabilities, said apparatus including a graphical user interface to allow the visual representation of the organisation to be displayed to the user, input means to allow the user to select and view details for a particular capability and to define and manipulate the visual representation and characterised in that the apparatus further includes a navigation mechanism that supports controlled navigation by the user via the visual representation from a selected capability to its superior or subordinate capabilities, incoming and/or outgoing linkages to other capabilities, resources used or produced, and potential collaborations with other capabilities.
A modelling method for generating a structural hierarchic representation of an organisation in terms of capabilities with input/output resource definitions, comprising the steps of generating a visual representation of the organisation in terms of a collection of graphical representations, or models, showing how capabilities interact in order to achieve the required purposes, using directed linkages and resource flows and said structure includes any or any combination of the ability for at least one capability, to identify any superior and subordinate capabilities;
A method for graphically representing and linking a series of capabilities, said method comprising the steps of constructing a hierarchy of capabilities to describe the component structure of an organisation, constructing a collection of graphical representations, or models, of the organisation using capability components creating a model describing an aspect of organisational behaviour by combining required capabilities and establishing directed linkages between capabilities to indicate required interactions.
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