Managing workflow approval

A computer program product residing on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

• identifying a target completion date for approval of a content item;
• identifying one or more approvers associated with a sequence of approval for the content item;
• determining a recommended completion date for the content item based upon, at least in part, historical workflow data;
• and
• determining whether timely completion of the approval of the content item is likely, based upon, at least in part, comparing the target completion date with the recommended completion date.

A computer system comprising:

• one or more processor devices;
• and
• one or more memory architectures coupled with the one or more processor devices;
• wherein the one or more processor devices are configured to:
• identify a target completion date for approval of a content item;
• identify one or more approvers associated with a sequence of approval for the content item;
• determine a recommended completion date for the content item based upon, at least in part, historical workflow data;
• and
• determine whether timely completion of the approval of the content item is likely, based upon, at least in part, comparing the target completion date with the recommended completion date.

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• identifying, by one or more computing devices, a target completion date for approval of a content item;
• identifying, by the one or more computing devices, a last approver in a sequence of approval associated with the content item;
• notifying, by the one or more computing devices, the last approver of the target completion date;
• receiving, by the one or more computing devices, an indication of a target receipt date for the last approver based upon, at least in part, notifying the last approver of the target completion date;
• determining, by the one or more computing devices, a previous approver in the sequence of approval, the previous approver preceding the last approver in the sequence of approval;
• notifying, by the one or more computing devices, the previous approver of the target receipt date for the last approver;
• receiving, by the one or more computing devices, an indication of a target receipt date for the previous approver based upon, at least in part, notifying the previous approver of the target receipt date for the last approver;
• determining, by the one or more computing devices, a projected total approval time based upon, at least in part, one or more of receiving the indication of the target receipt date for the last approver and receiving the indication of the target receipt date for the previous approver;
• and
• identifying, by the one or more computing devices, a first amended target completion date based upon, at least in part, determining the projected total approval time, wherein the projected total project approval time indicates a likely failure to complete the approval of the content item by the target completion date.