System and method for identifying relevant information for an enterprise

A method for finding information found within an electronic information system containing digital information utilized by an enterprise, relevant to a process performed by the enterprise or relevant to an enterprise stress point of said process, the enterprise stress point being a problem, opportunity or event associated with at least one process step of said process, the method embodied in a system capable of transacting the steps comprising:

• providing a non-transient digital storage medium and a processor;
• retrieving information related to activities of the enterprise;
• encoding said information on said digital storage medium;
• assessing said information utilizing said processor with respect to at least one predictive pattern associated with a predefined set of enterprise stress points;
• electronically indexing said information with respect to the enterprise stress points;
• and
• presenting said indexed information in a manner effective to aid in at least one of solving the problem, exploiting the opportunity, or understanding the event.

A method for making an expert determination as to the similarities between at least two processes, comprising:

• providing a non-transient digital storage medium and a processor;
• storing on said non-transient digital storage medium a plurality of processes, each process having at least one process node connected to another process node by cause and effect;
• comparing said process nodes in said processes utilizing said processor;
• receiving to said processor an input that there exists a commonality between at least two of said process nodes in said processes;
• encoding on said digital storage medium a record of said commonality so that the processor can compare nodes for commonality and retrieve relevant information about a similar process.