System and method for asset assignment in a service delivery environment when assets have unique skills and/or capabilities

A method for asset assignment in a service delivery environment, the method comprising:

• identifying a number of worktypes;
• defining a plurality of asset resource pools and identifying a number of the resource pools;
• calculating a uniqueness of each resource pool;
• computing a utilization of each resource pool by calculating a total time period that assets from a resource pool have been used over an overall time period;
• and
• determining a uniqueness adjusted utilization value for each resource pool by multiplying the uniqueness of a resource pool by the utilization of the resource pool, wherein identifying the number of worktypes, identifying the number of resource pools, defining the plurality of asset resource pools, calculating the uniqueness, computing the utilization and determining the uniqueness adjusted utilization value are performed by a computer system comprising a memory and at least one processor coupled to the memory.