International Business Machines Corporation

Robert H Guttman

Clifford A Pickover

John Richard Smith

Raman Harishankar

David Leslie Cohn

Guy Jonathan James Rackham

David B Flaxer

John George Vergo

George M Galambos

Robert D Dill

Christopher Murasso

Jeffrey A Neville

George Edmund Pohle

Shanker Ramamurthy

Stephen Michael Smith

David Robert Kress

Laurie A Tropiano

A system and method is described for using a component business model to partition a business into non-overlapping components, and then allocating different components to appropriate organizing strategies, based on attribute values assigned to each component. In the best mode of implementation there are two attributes: whether or not the component differentiates the business within the market place; and whether the component is industry standard or is tailored by the organization. These attributes and their values map the components of the business to a matrix. Based on the combination of attribute values in each cell of the matrix, available organizing strategies are also mapped to the matrix, thereby identifying for each component an appropriate organizing strategy.

System and method for using a component business model to organize an enterprise

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Stamford, CT, United States of America

Robert H Guttman