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| 20080201195 | SYSTEM AND METOD FOR TRANSFORMING AN ENTERPRISE USING A COMPONENT BUSINESS MODEL - A system and method are described for using a Component Business Model (CBM) to transform a business. A CBM map is used to identify components that collaborate to provide a specified capability, and a repository supporting the CBM map is filtered to provide a view of the identified components that highlights how they collaborate. The view is used to identify component features contributing to the specified capability. The specified capability is then enhanced by a transformation strategy that includes re-engineering particular components, identifying a pattern characterizing the collaboration between components and adding a component to perform the collaborative pattern, and/or adding an additional feature to the collaboration and adding component to perform the additional feature. The CBM repository provides exemplar best practices that can be adapted for use in a re-engineered component. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080208661 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF USING ANRTIFACTS TO IDENTIFY ELEMENTS OF A COMPONENT BUSINESS MODEL - A method and system are described for using business artifacts to identify elements of a component business model. Artifacts operated upon by the business are first identified, and then used to analyze the business into business operations. This is done by identifying every business activity that acts on an artifact, creating directed graphs for the business activities, and decomposing the directed graphs into sub-graphs, each sub-graph representing a business operation and being annotated by a verb expression, the annotated sub-graph representing a business service. The business services are then clustered into non-overlapping components, using common affinities reflected in the verb expressions, and organized by partitioning into internal and external operations, exposing a business service for each external operation. The components are then clustered into non-overlapping business competencies, and arranged by accountability level. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080215398 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING A COMPONENT BUSINESS MODEL TO MANAGE AN ENTERPRISE - A method and system are described for using the structure and relationships between components in a component business model of an enterprise to assign components providing monitoring data to a management component. In response to the monitoring data, the management component executes a business rule invoking a service that alters a behavior of the enterprise. The management component contains data rules limiting the information provided by the assigned components, analysis rules defining the interaction between components, and report rules for consolidating recommendations for altering behavior of the enterprise, including decisions to invest in certain aspects of the business, to reengineer certain processes of the business, and to alter operation of certain aspects of the business. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080221940 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING THE COMPONENT BUSINESS MODEL TO ANALYZE BUSINESS VALUE DRIVERS - The method and system uses the component business model as a framework for locating business activities. Business value drivers are identified, related in an influence model, and structured into a prioritized driver tree. The driver tree is used to determine the relative contributions of leaf drivers to the overall value of the business. Business activities contributing to the leaf drivers are then identified, and the relative contributions of the leaf drivers are allocated to the business activities and then rolled up to the components for display as a heat map overlay on a component map. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20100138248 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING A COMMERCIAL ECOSYSTEMS BLUEPRINT IN AN ASSET BASED COMPONENT BUSINESS MODEL ARCHITECTURE - A method and system for constructing a business architecture based on a commercial ecosystem blueprint. The commercial ecosystem blueprint provides a layout of components generic to the ecosystem and its participants, each component having an asset type and an associated commercialization mechanism, and all the components providing a mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive representation of the ecosystem. The blueprint provides a common migration target for ecosystem participants seeking a relatively stable asset based business architecture. Each component on the blueprint, and the information technology system supporting implementation of the component, are configurable to adapt to particular participants and business systems. A collaborative network of such components may be assembled to provide a business system, and these components may be performed by other ecosystem participants, as determined by global sourcing and supply-line optimization. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100138249 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STRUCTURED COLLABORATION USING REUSABLE BUSINESS COMPONENTS AND CONTROL STRUCTURES IN AN ASSET BASED COMPONENT BUSINESS MODEL ARCHITECTURE - A method and system for using an asset based business architecture having components to operate a business, implementing collaborative interactions between the components by using control structures granular to the level of the corresponding asset based components. To respond to a business opportunity components are assembled into a collaborative network, and the assembled components are configured to the business opportunity. Additional or modified control structures are employed in the collaborative network as needed. Preferably, the collaborative network operates in a business control domain. The components may be adapted from a component business model (CBM) map developed for an industry within which the business competes. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100138265 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLY OF BUSINESS SYSTEMS FROM REUSABLE BUSINESS CONTROL ELEMENTS IN AN ASSET BASED COMPONENT BUSINESS MODEL ARCHITECTURE - A method and system for assembling business systems by identifying assets and commercialization mechanisms needed for a business system, which are then associated with business components described on a component business model (CBM) map, based on asset types and elemental control structures that are common across an industry, and therefore reusable. The generic elemental control structures needed for the business system are configured and then assembled into a service network for implementing the business system. A business system so assembled may be enhanced by adding elemental control structures to the service network. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100138272 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A THRESHOLD OF DECOMPOSITION FOR ENABLING INCREMENTAL DEVELOPMENT OF PERSISTENT AND REUSABLE BUSINESS COMPONENTS AND CONTROL STRUCTURES IN AN ASSET BASED COMPONENT BUSINESS MODEL ARCHITECTURE - A method and system for generating a business architecture by decomposing an asset based model of the business to a threshold level of decomposition, at which level the decomposition resolves into elemental design elements having asset types which are commercialized by corresponding elemental control structures. At this level of decomposition the elemental design elements and their elemental control structures are reusable in other businesses. This decomposition technique may be applied incrementally to gradually displace legacy systems in the course of developing an asset based architecture for the business. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100169150 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSIGNING STAFF AS A SERVICE IN A SERVICE NETWORK WITHIN A COMPONENT BUSINESS MODEL ARCHITECTURE - A method and system are provided for using a component business model (CBM) architecture to provide a staff assignment service to an enterprise. A staff assignment scenario is described in terms of process steps, and staffing resources and respective commercialization mechanisms required to implement the staff assignment scenario are described in terms of business components in a CBM architecture of the enterprise, the applicable business components forming a staffing service network. For each business component in the staffing service network, functionalities supporting the scenario are identified, and collaborative links among the business components are established, sufficient to enable the service functionalities within the staffing service network to operate so as to assign staff to a project of the enterprise. The staff assignment service is adapted dynamically by repetition of this technique as new scenarios are developed. | 07-01-2010 |
