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US 8,510,152 B1Granted
System for capability assessment and development
AssigneeAccenture Global Services Limited
InventorSaurabh Rai
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Abstract
A tool is configured to determine process and service strengths as related to the accomplishment of one or more objectives. One or more processes include associated process information relating to various process attributes. The tool may execute a plurality of scoring modules to produce scores representative of strengths of processes and services as related to the accomplishment of the objectives. The scores may be used to identify processes for adjustment having a maximum impact on the scores.
Claims15
An organization-assessment system comprising:
- a database configured to store respective process information associated with a plurality of processes;
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- a processor in communication with the database, the processor configured to retrieve an objective associated with the organization and save in the database the respective process information associated with the plurality of processes, where said process information is generated based on modeling or calculating by the processor, or activity information;
- the processor further configured to:
- identify a service associated with the at least one objective;
- identify a subset of processes associated with the service from the plurality of processes;
- filter the subset of processes to identify a plurality of objective-based processes, wherein each of the objective-based processes is a process used to achieve the objective;
- retrieve the respective process information from the database for each of objective-based processes;
- identify an objective-based process of the plurality of objective-based processes based on a frequency of association and based on predetermined process attributes, wherein the identified objective-based process has a projected maximum impact on an overall strength score upon adjustment of the identified objective-based process;
- generate a first scoring matrix based on the respective process information of the plurality of objective-based processes, wherein the scoring matrix includes a plurality of scores, and wherein each of the plurality of scores in the scoring matrix is associated with one of the plurality of objective-based processes, and is representative of a strength of one of a respective plurality of predetermined process attributes;
- rank the plurality of objective-based processes based on the frequency of association for each objective-based process and at least one score associated of each objective-based process associated with one of the process attributes, wherein the rank is determined based on a score for each of the plurality of objective-based processes determined by the formula:
- Score=FR*(3−((Content Details)+KPI+CAM), wherein FR is the frequency of association, Content Details is a Content Details attribute score, KPI is a key performance indicator attribute score, and CAM is a capability assessment model score;
- determine a respective average score for each of the predetermined process attributes based on the plurality of scores of the first scoring matrix, wherein each respective average score is representative of an average strength of each of the predetermined process attributes with respect to the objective;
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- determine a plurality of overall strength scores based on respective average scores based on the first scoring matrix, wherein each of the plurality of overall strength scores is representative of an overall strength of the services with respect to the objectives.
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A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising a plurality of instructions executable by a processor, the computer-readable medium comprising:
- instructions to store process information in a database, wherein the process information is associated with a plurality of processes, wherein the process information includes at least one of modeling, calculation, or activity information related to one of the processes;
- instructions to retrieve an objective from the database;
- instructions to identify a service associated with the one objective;
- instructions to identify a subset of processes associated with the service from the plurality of processes;
- instructions to filter the subset of processes to identify a plurality of objective-based processes, wherein each objective-based process is a process used to achieve the at least one objective;
- instructions to retrieve respective process information from the database for each of the objective-based processes;
- instructions to identify an objective-based process of the plurality of objective-based processes based on a frequency of association and based on predetermined process attributes, wherein the identified objective-based process has a projected maximum positive impact on an overall strength score by adjustment of the identified objective-based process;
- instructions to generate a first scoring matrix based on the respective process information of the plurality of objective-based processes, wherein the scoring matrix includes a plurality of scores, wherein each of the plurality of scores in the scoring matrix is associated with one of the plurality of objective-based processes, and is representative of a strength of one of a respective plurality of predetermined process attributes;
- instructions to rank the plurality of objective-based processes based on the frequency of association for each objective-based process and at least one score associated of each objective-based process associated with one of the process attributes, wherein the rank is determined based on a score for each of the plurality of objective-based processes determined by the formula:
- Score=FR*(3−((Content Details)+KPI+CAM), wherein FR is the frequency of association, Content Details is a Content Details attribute score, KPI is a key performance indicator attribute score, and CAM is a capability assessment model score;
- instructions to determine a respective average score for each of the predetermined process attributes based on the plurality of scores of the first scoring matrix, wherein each respective average score is representative of an average strength of each of the predetermined process attributes with respect to the objective;
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- instructions to determine a plurality of overall strength scores based on the respective average scores based on the first scoring matrix, wherein each of the plurality of overall strength scores is representative of an overall strength of the services with respect to the objectives.
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An organizational-assessment system comprising:
- a database configured to store respective process information associated with a plurality of processes, wherein the respective process information includes at least one of modeling, calculation, or activity information;
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- a processor in communication with the database, the processor configured to retrieve an objective from the database;
- the processor further configured to identify a subset of processes as objective-based processes, where each of the objective based processes is associated with accomplishing the objective;
- the processor further configured to retrieve the respective process information from the database for each of the objective-based processes;
- the processor further configured to execute a first scoring module executable to convert the respective process information of the objective-based processes into a scoring matrix, wherein the scoring matrix includes a plurality of scores, wherein each of the plurality of scores in the scoring matrix is associated with one of the plurality of objective-based processes, and wherein each of the plurality of scores in the scoring matrix is representative of a strength of one of a plurality of predetermined process attributes;
- the processor further configured to rank the plurality of objective-based processes based on the frequency of association for each objective-based process and at least one score associated of each objective-based process associated with one of the process attributes, wherein the rank is determined based on a score for each of the plurality of objective-based processes determined by the formula:
- Score=FR*(3−((Content Details)+KPI+CAM), wherein FR is the frequency of association, Content Details is a Content Details attribute score, KPI is a key performance indicator attribute score, and CAM is a capability assessment model score;
- the processor further configured to execute a second scoring module executable to determine a respective average score for each predetermined process attribute based on the plurality of scores of the scoring matrix, wherein each respective average score is representative of an average strength of each predetermined process attribute with respect to the objective;
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- the processor further configured to execute a third scoring module executable to determine a plurality of overall strength scores based on the respective average scores based on the scoring matrix, wherein each of the plurality of overall strength scores is representative of an overall strength of the services with respect to the objectives.
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