Resource Tepee Visualization for Organizational Manpower Allocation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Organizational charts fail to visually depict resource utilization across functions and levels, limiting their ability to represent manpower distribution and other resource expenses effectively.
Innovation Solution
A color-coded chart, known as the Resource Tepee, is generated from a resource utilization matrix, where nodes are connected and colored to represent resource expenditure across different functions and levels, providing a clear visualization of resource allocation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If an organizational chart is used to depict organizational structure, then personnel distribution is visualized, but resource utilization across functions and levels is not depicted
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines organizational structure data with resource utilization data into a single integrated visual display. The resource tepee merges hierarchical level information with functional resource expenditure data, allowing both structural and resource information to be viewed simultaneously in one graphic representation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from a traditional two-dimensional organizational chart to a three-dimensional tepee-shaped display. This dimensional change allows additional resource utilization information to be encoded in the visual space, with height representing hierarchical levels and color intensity representing resource expenditure magnitude.
2Ease of operation
If a color coded chart is created to show resource utilization, then resource expenditure is easily visualized, but the chart requires processing from a resource utilization matrix
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary data processing by organizing resource utilization information into a structured matrix format before generating the visual display. This pre-organization of data into a resource utilization matrix with hierarchical levels and functions facilitates the subsequent automated generation of the tepee chart.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses color intensity variations to encode resource expenditure magnitude. Different colors or shades represent different levels of resource utilization, allowing viewers to quickly grasp resource distribution patterns across functions and hierarchical levels through intuitive visual cues.
Data Source
AI summary
A color display called a Resource Tepee depicting, at a glance, resource utilization across functions and over levels of an organization. The display is constructed by starting with a resource utilization matrix whose elements are resources utilized at each combination of function and level. A matrix of co-ordinates is computed using the resource utilization matrix. This matrix contains the nodes of the Tepee. Boundary lines to separate the colors of the Tepee are obtained by connecting co-ordinates in each column of the matrix of co-ordinates. Colors representing distinct functions are applied to the spaces between boundary lines to obtain the Resource Tepee.