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8442857 Pulp and paper high performance capability assessment  
A high performance capability assessment model helps a pulp and paper business meet the challenges of the global marketplace. As a result, the pulp and paper business can achieve the clarity,...
8429002 Approaches for enforcing best practices and policies through computerized processes  
Approaches for employing computerized processes to conform the behavior of users to a set of best practices and policies is provided. In an approach, a tool for use in performing a desired task may...
8429003 Methods, technology, and systems for quickly enhancing the operating and financial performance of energy systems at large facilities; interpreting usual and unusual patterns in energy consumption; identifying, quantifying, and monetizing hidden operating and financial waste; and accurately measuring the results of implemented energy management solutions-in the shortest amount of time with minimal cost and effort  
Certain examples relate to computer implemented methods and systems including at least three modules whose combined functionality provides for interpretation and optimization of usual and unusual...
8412562 Retail high performance capability assessment  
A capability analysis structure helps a modern business meet the challenges of the global marketplace. As a result, the business can achieve the clarity, consistency, and well-defined execution of...
8412563 Method and system for analyzing and optimizing distribution of work from a plurality of queues  
A method and system for analyzing and optimizing the distribution of work from a plurality of queues includes storing historical data in a database. The historical data may include sets of...
8412552 Trust lookup protocol  
A trust look-up protocol is described that allows a meta-trusted third party, or trust directory, to mediate between parties of potential business collaborations and trusted third parties that are...
8407080 Managing and monitoring continuous improvement in information technology services  
A method for managing performance of an IT service delivery process to ensure the changes meet service performance objectives. Key performance metrics (KPIs) of a service delivery process are...
8401892 Systems and methods of analyzing accounts receivable and sales outstanding  
Systems and methods are provided to perform an analysis of the accounts receivable of a business. Each component of the accounts receivable is reviewed individually and all factors related to that...
8396740 Method for monitoring and displaying of utility consumption  
A method is disclosed for displaying utility consumption of a property portfolio for zones of a display area. First values correspond to utility consumption and second values corresponding to...
8392237 Compliance methodology  
Methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses for evaluating compliance with laws, regulations, and/or policies are presented. A metric definition for a metric may be received, the metric...
8386297 Planning for value  
Target setting, forecasting, and budgeting methods and tools are provided in which targets are selected at a high level of management through a process of strategic planning to select targets based...
8380557 Multi-tenant database management for service level agreement (SLA) profit maximization  
Systems and methods are disclosed to consolidate workload on cloud-based computers by co-locating one or more high-penalty tenants on one or more cloud-based servers; reducing service level...
8374908 Computer system and computer-based method for assessing the safety of a process industry plant  
A method and system to establish a safety assessment of a process industry plant including multiple organizational units. The method and system store scores relating to a rating of one of an...
8370191 Method and system for generating quantitative indicators  
A method of generating a quantitative indicator of sales for a market segment for a predetermined time period is disclosed. The market segment represents a plurality of members with one or more...
8364519 Apparatus, system and method for processing, analyzing or displaying data related to performance metrics  
A method of determining a set of future actions includes providing an interface to a user, the interface including an adjustable element associated with a future value of an influencer. The...
8355940 Capability and maturity-based SOA governance  
Methods, including service methods, articles of manufacture, systems, articles and programmable devices are provided for a service-oriented architecture governance model. Each of a plurality of...
8352308 Assessing value added by associating an entity with a project  
When deciding whether to fund a project, such as a movie, investors consider information such as what is often referred to as the “bankability” of people or entities attached to the project, suc...
8346594 Comprehensive information market exchange  
Systems and techniques for collecting information as authorized by information providers and sharing the information with information recipients according to criteria specified by the information...
8341012 Working skill estimating program  
A working skill estimating program is provided for estimating working skills of each agent in the state of separating a disturbance factor from response records (incidents). A large category...
8341013 System and method for analyzing agent interactions  
A system and method for analyzing agent interactions is provided. An interaction between an agent and a business is provided to analysts. Performance scores for the interaction are received from...
8332262 Chemical high performance capability assessment  
A high performance capability assessment model helps a chemical industry business meet the challenges of the global marketplace. As a result, the chemical industry business can achieve the clarity,...
8332263 System and method for configuring scoring rules and generating supplier performance ratings  
A system and method for configuring a scoring rule is described. One embodiment includes constructing a performance level code for each performance metric in the scoring rule, designating...
8332256 Social network marketing plan monitoring method and system  
A monitoring method and system. The method retrieving by a computer, first data associated with a marketing plan associated with social networks and second data associated with marketing plan...
8321263 Processing and display of service provider performance data  
Disclosed are computing systems, apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture for processing and displaying service provider performance data. In insurance and related industries, service...
8311880 Supplier performance and accountability system  
A method and apparatus for measuring, managing and improving the quality and performance of supplied products and services across a large and potentially very diverse organization or enterprise....
8311881 Rewards for unseen web site activity  
A method for maintaining a website by providing rewards for indirect unseen activities is disclosed. Individual reviewers are rewarded for reviewing and assigning rating scores to articles of media...
8301574 Multimedia engagement study  
A media engagement system determines engagement scores for media vehicles across multiple media channels. The engagements scores for a media vehicle comprise multiple dimension scores indicating...
8301490 Methods and systems for optimization of innovative capacity and economic value from knowledge, human and risk capital asset sets  
Methods and systems for optimizing innovative capacity and new economic value from aggregates of public and private national, state, provincial and industry sector assets are disclosed. Sets of...
8285576 Automated derivation, design and execution of industry-specific information environment  
A computer-implemented method, system and program product for creating a physical information environment for a specific industry type are presented. A candidate industry type is selected to...
8285585 System and method for peer-profiling individual performance  
Embodiments of the invention provide a comprehensive, automated system and method for evaluating the performance of individuals or entities employed by an organization, particularly useful in...
8265976 Assessment of skills of a user  
A method, operable on a processing device, for assessment of skills of a user may include receiving, by the processing device, an error message reporting an error associated with the user. The...
8261181 Multidimensional metrics-based annotation  
Persistent annotations are created on a scorecard that combines multi-dimensional as well as fixed value data. The annotations uniquely defined by the scorecard view definition and by the retrieved...
8260658 Method for visual presentation of key performance indicators of a business utilizing a squarified tree map  
Data representing key performance indicators of a business enterprise are displayed by computer as a squarified tree map having major nodes each of which represents a profit center of the...
8255423 Adaptive random trees integer non-linear programming  
A system and method for building segmented scorecards for a population is presented. A model of the population is built using a model builder computer, and one or more variables used by the model...
8239247 Correlated analytics for benchmarking in community shared data  
Exemplary embodiments of this invention provide a method that includes estimating an empirical distribution of a metric for a company. The method includes estimating a distribution of the metric...
8239246 Health and life sciences payer high performance capability assessment  
A high-performance capability assessment model helps a health and life sciences business meet the challenges of the global marketplace. As a result, the health and life sciences business can...
8225270 Technique for managing the process of developing software  
A system that manages development of software is described. During operation, this system aggregates status information and requirement information as a function of time, where the status...
8224690 Graphical risk-based performance measurement and benchmarking system and method  
A system and method provides analysis of pre- and post-project effects on frequency and severity of operational loss. The method includes the computation of the frequency of incidents and the...
8219440 System for enhancing business performance  
A system gathers real-time data about an enterprise over a network. A user device displays a dashboard showing a component business model map, a heat map, key performance indicators for components,...
8214238 Consumer goods and services high performance capability assessment  
A high performance capability assessment model helps a consumer goods and services business meet the challenges of the global marketplace. As a result, the consumer goods and services business can...
8214227 Optimized practice process model for clinical process improvement  
Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces are provided for identifying, analyzing, and adopting opportunities for optimizing clinical processes within clinical facilities. An optimized...
8209215 Assessing value added by associating an entity with a project  
When deciding whether to fund a project, such as a movie, investors consider information such as what is often referred to as the “bankability” of people or entities attached to the project, suc...
8209211 Apparatus and methods for requirements decomposition and management  
An apparatus and methods are disclosed for requirements decomposition and management. The apparatus includes a collection module, an organization module, and a graph module. These modules carry out...
8209218 Apparatus, system and method for processing, analyzing or displaying data related to performance metrics  
Embodiments of the present invention relates to a method, apparatus and computer program product for processing, analyzing and/or display data related to performance metrics, for example, predicted...
8204779 Revenue asset high performance capability assessment  
A high performance capability assessment model helps a revenue industry agency meet the challenges of the global marketplace. As a result, the revenue industry can achieve the clarity, consistency,...
8204778 Behavioral profiles in sourcing and recruiting as part of a hiring process  
A method of selecting potential hires for progression through a hiring process is provided. The method comprises selecting at least one performance indicator for a position, obtaining the at least...
8200527 Method for prioritizing and presenting recommendations regarding organizaion's customer care capabilities  
Enhancements to customer care capabilities can be prioritized and presented using a repeatable methodology which allows information to be collected, processed, and utilized in a uniform fashion...
8200528 Factor analysis system and analysis method thereof  
A factor analysis system and method thereof is disclosed. The factor analysis system comprises a data receiving module for receiving a plurality of factors having influence on a target total value,...
8190467 Methods of identifying environmentally friendly businesses or individuals  
This disclosure relates to techniques for a computer-implemented method which receives user input that specifies values for predetermined questions provided in an environmental questionnaire,...
8187004 System and method of education administration  
A system including electronic data collection for school officials, staff, and administrators is described. The data collection system can be integrated onto school management systems to...
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