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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2008
Makoto Kano, Yokohama, JP;
Akio Koide, Yokohama, JP;
Te-kai Liu, Mount Kisco, NY (US);
Bala Ramachandran, Harrison, NY (US);
Makoto Kano, Yokohama, JP;
Akio Koide, Yokohama, JP;
Te-Kai Liu, Mount Kisco, NY (US);
Bala Ramachandran, Harrison, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method for analyzing and managing business performance by designing and evaluating the performance of a business process model comprising a flow of business tasks and artifact sources that generate business artifacts. Business processes may be parsed to identify transformation opportunities meeting transformation conditions specified in a transformation knowledge. One or more identified transformation opportunities may be adopted, and parts of the process may be transformed according to transformation rules specified in a transformation knowledge. Analytics and computer simulation may be employed to evaluate business performance metrics of each of said transformed business processes. Iterative changes may be made to said business processes to manage business performance, reiterating transformation and evaluation steps until a satisfactory business process model is obtained. The resulting output is finally produced as a business process model in machine-readable format and can be deployed to a business environment.