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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2003
Nigel Howard Julian Brown, Richmond Hill, CA;
Yim Y. Chan, Richmond Hill, CA;
Christopher James Dolder, London, GB;
Marie-paule Christyne Gauthier, Toronto, CA;
Howard Young, Richmond Hill, CA;
Nigel Howard Julian Brown, Richmond Hill, CA;
Yim Y. Chan, Richmond Hill, CA;
Christopher James Dolder, London, GB;
Marie-Paule Christyne Gauthier, Toronto, CA;
Howard Young, Richmond Hill, CA;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and computer program product for providing a consulting assessment environment. Consultants may use the environment to define templates that encode questionnaires and domain knowledge regarding business practices, as well as reporting criteria to specify the content and format of the assessment results. Consultants or their clients may use the environment to automate the process of performing assessments and generating reports from those assessments. These assessments may analyze the current state of the business, compare the business's current state with desired states or with best practices, and perform risk/benefit and/or cost/benefit analyses, according to the specifications made in the templates on a real-time basis for producing immediate assessment results and actions. An information hiding feature is provided to allow sensitive domain knowledge encoded within the templates, such as trade secrets, to be made inaccessible to clients.