Automated Compliance Review Routing System

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Solution Overview

Problem

The process of reviewing business development materials for compliance and performance approval is cumbersome and time-consuming, often requiring manual coordination and inefficient identification of relevant reviewers due to complex regulatory and jurisdictional considerations.

Innovation Solution

An automated system and method for processing review requests using a Compliance Approval Request Form (CARF) that generates and submits review requests electronically to relevant performance and compliance reviewers, enabling real-time tracking and archiving of review results.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If manual review processes are used for business development materials, then reviewers can thoroughly assess compliance and performance, but the process becomes cumbersome and time-consuming

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompliance review accuracyVSAvoidreview turnaround time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically identifying and routing review requests to the appropriate reviewers based on pre-configured criteria such as product type, jurisdiction, and reviewer expertise. This preliminary classification and routing eliminates manual coordination delays while ensuring that the right reviewers receive the right materials for thorough assessment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If manual coordination is used to identify relevant reviewers, then appropriate specialists can be selected, but the process becomes difficult to coordinate and monitor

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvereviewer expertise matchingVSAvoidcoordination complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements self-service by automatically matching review requests with appropriate reviewers based on predefined criteria such as product specialization, geographic jurisdiction, and reviewer availability. The system autonomously performs the coordination task that would otherwise require manual intervention, reducing coordination complexity while maintaining reliable matching of reviewer expertise to review needs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Reliability

If traditional review processes are used, then detailed compliance checks can be performed, but tracking and archiving review results becomes inefficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompliance checking thoroughnessVSAvoidtracking and archiving efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback mechanisms by automatically capturing, tracking, and archiving review results in a centralized database. Review outcomes, including compliance determinations and any required modifications, are systematically recorded and fed back into the system for future reference and auditing. This automated feedback loop maintains thorough compliance checking while dramatically improving tracking and archiving efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS7853885B2System and method for automated processing of requests for approval of materials for business development
Publication Date: 2010.12.14 AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP INC
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AI summary

A system and method for automated processing requests for reviewing and approving business development materials, such as marketing flipbooks and request for proposals, etc., for compliance and performance approval employs an application server that presents a web-based request form. A requestor uses the request form to enter information regarding the approval request and to select reviewer. The application server then generates a request document and sends it with the business development materials to the selected reviewer(s). The request form and marketing presentation materials are archived in a database to allow real-time monitoring and future auditing.