DX Maturity Assessment System for Objective Service Recommendation

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Solution Overview

Problem

The existing DX promotion index relies on self-diagnosis, making it difficult to objectively assess a company's digital transformation progress, which hampers the selection of appropriate initiatives, tools, and services for promotion, and prevents providers from accurately offering tailored products and services.

Innovation Solution

A computer system that manages service management information to estimate the maturity of digital transformation in business operations, identify necessary services, and recommend them to companies based on this data.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If self-diagnosis method is used to assess DX promotion degree, then company can easily evaluate its own status, but the assessment lacks objectivity and accuracy

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of self-assessmentVSAvoidobjectivity of DX assessment
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a third-party assessment system that acts as an intermediary between companies and DX evaluation. This external assessment system collects operating data from multiple sources, processes it through standardized metrics, and provides objective maturity assessments, thereby resolving the contradiction between easy self-assessment and objective measurement.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements a feedback mechanism where assessment results are continuously updated based on new operating data. The system provides regular feedback loops that compare current maturity levels against targets, enabling both companies and providers to track progress and adjust strategies, thus improving measurement precision while maintaining ease of use through automated reporting.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Adaptability or versatility

If DX promotion index is used for service recommendation, then service providers can identify potential customers, but they cannot accurately grasp the degree of DX promotion to propose optimal services

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice recommendation capabilityVSAvoidaccuracy of DX promotion degree
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent transforms the abstract concept of DX promotion degree into concrete, measurable parameters including maturity level, service utilization rate, and operating data metrics. By changing the assessment from subjective qualitative indicators to objective quantitative parameters, the system enables both service recommendation and accurate measurement of DX promotion degree.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent segments the DX assessment into multiple dimensions including data infrastructure, process automation, organizational culture, and service utilization. This segmentation allows for precise measurement in each dimension while providing a comprehensive overall assessment, enabling tailored service recommendations based on specific area needs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Measurement precision

If comprehensive operating data is collected for accurate maturity estimation, then objective assessment is achieved, but system complexity and data processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccuracy of maturity estimationVSAvoidcomplexity of data collection system
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates a universal data collection framework that can gather multiple types of operating data through standardized interfaces. The assessment system performs multiple functions including data collection, processing, analysis, and reporting within a single integrated platform, thereby achieving accurate maturity estimation without proportionally increasing system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transforms complex raw operating data into simplified maturity metrics through standardized parameter transformations. By changing the data representation from detailed operational records to aggregated maturity indicators, the system maintains measurement precision while reducing the complexity of data processing and system architecture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS20240412144A1Computer system and service recommendation method
Publication Date: 2024.12.12 HITACHI LTD
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AI summary

A computer system manages service management information for managing a correspondence relation between a magnitude of maturity representing a degree of promotion of digital transformation in a business operation and a service useful for the promotion of the digital transformation in the business operation, acquires, from a business system operated by a first business operator, operating data including information on an operation of the business system, estimates the maturity of the business system of the first business operator based on the operating data, identifies a service with reference to the service management information based on the maturity, the service being recommended to be introduced to the first business operator, and presents information on the identified service.