Unified Plan Model Visualization for Enterprise Coordination
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Modern enterprises face complexity in planning and decision-making due to multiple departments and business units with conflicting goals, requiring effective software-based models to improve collaboration and optimization of plans across various levels and domains.
Innovation Solution
A software system for business outcome modeling that includes plan models, which are accessed and used by clients to generate, maintain, and interact with plan models, enabling interactive decision-making, scenario planning, and optimization of business plans across different domains and levels within an organization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If multiple departments and business units operate with their own separate plans and goals, then each unit can optimize its own objectives, but the overall enterprise coordination and collaboration deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple departmental plans into a unified enterprise-wide plan model. The system integrates plans from different departments (sales, marketing, operations) into a single coherent plan that coordinates all activities, resolving the contradiction between departmental optimization and enterprise coordination by combining separate planning efforts into a unified framework.
Solution Approach 2:
The plan model serves multiple functions simultaneously: it acts as a goal-setting tool, a resource allocation mechanism, a progress tracking system, and a collaboration platform. This universal plan model handles various enterprise planning needs across different departments, enabling both specialized optimization and overall coordination through a single multi-functional system.
2Ease of operation
If traditional planning methods are used without interactive visualization, then implementation is straightforward, but decision-making speed and collaboration efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates visual copies and representations of the plan model through interactive graphics on user interfaces. These visual copies include Gantt charts, roadmaps, and progress indicators that replicate the plan's structure and status, enabling users to quickly understand and collaborate on plans without complex manual processes, thus accelerating decision-making while maintaining ease of implementation.
Solution Approach 2:
The plan model incorporates real-time feedback mechanisms that automatically update visual representations based on progress data, resource availability, and changing conditions. This feedback loop provides immediate information to stakeholders, enabling rapid decision-making and collaborative adjustments without compromising the straightforward implementation of the plan.
3Manufacturing precision
If detailed plan models are created for all enterprise activities, then planning precision improves, but system complexity and difficulty of management worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The plan model is segmented into hierarchical levels and modular components representing different enterprise domains (sales, marketing, operations) and timeframes. This segmentation allows detailed planning precision at each level while managing overall complexity through structured organization, enabling precise planning without overwhelming system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary plan model layer that sits between detailed operational plans and high-level strategic goals. This intermediary model aggregates and coordinates detailed activities across departments, providing planning precision for individual components while simplifying overall management through a coordinating intermediate structure.
Data Source
AI summary
A plan model system provides interactive graphical user interfaces allowing users to view and navigate to multiple alternative views of measures modeled in one or more planning models. A modeled event is provided by a user relating to a measure of a particular plan model modeling outcomes of a particular business domain of a business organization. An effect of the event on values of one or more measures of the plan model is determined. A graphical representation is presented in the graphical user interface illustrating the effect.