Standardized Organizational Data Mapping for Cross-Company Comparison
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Solution Overview
Problem
Comparing organizational structures and roles across different companies is challenging due to unique organizational forms, varying job titles, and lack of standardization, leading to inaccurate or difficult comparisons.
Innovation Solution
A system normalizes organizational information by creating a standardized organizational structure and hierarchy, allowing for the mapping of employees and processes across different organizations based on common characteristics such as tasks, budget control, and work output, enabling accurate comparisons and associations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If organizations use unique organizational structures and custom job titles to reflect their specific needs and cultures, then organizational identity and precision in role description are improved, but comparability and standardization across different organizations deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a standardized organizational hierarchy as an intermediary framework that maps custom job titles and roles from different organizations to common standardized roles. This mediator enables comparison while preserving the uniqueness of each organization's structure by allowing multiple custom titles to map to the same standardized role (e.g., Director of Customer Support, Vice-President of Service, and Head of Client Relations all mapping to a standardized 'Customer Service Leadership' role).
Solution Approach 2:
The system transforms organizational data by changing the parameter of job title classification from organization-specific custom titles to standardized role categories. This parameter transformation allows data from diverse organizational structures to be normalized and compared on a common basis while retaining the ability to trace back to original custom titles when needed.
2Adaptability or versatility
If organizations map their unique structures to a standardized hierarchy, then comparability and association between users from different organizations are improved, but loss of organization-specific nuances and customizations occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a nested structure where standardized organizational roles contain or encompass organization-specific custom roles. The standardized hierarchy serves as an outer framework that nests multiple organization-specific variations within each standardized role category. This nesting allows the system to operate at multiple levels of abstraction simultaneously - using standardized roles for comparison while preserving access to organization-specific nuances within each standardized category.
3Ease of operation
If a standardized organizational chart is created to enable comparisons, then ease of comparison and association between users is improved, but device complexity and effort to establish the standardization framework increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the organizational hierarchy into distinct standardized levels and role categories that can be independently defined and mapped. Rather than creating a single monolithic standardized framework, the system divides the organizational structure into manageable segments (executive level, management level, individual contributor level, etc.) with standardized roles at each segment. This segmentation reduces the overall complexity by allowing incremental implementation and easier mapping of organization-specific roles to appropriate standardized segments.
Data Source
AI summary
A computer-implemented method involves receiving, from a first user, first parameters that describe an organization-specific object for an organization corresponding to the user; mapping the organization-specific object to a standardized organizational object that represents a hypothetical version of one or more actual organizational objects by matching the first parameters to a template for the standardized object; receiving a request for information from a second user of the hosted computer service, the request including second parameters; using the second parameters to map the request to the standardized object; and providing, for review by the second user, information about the standardized object, using the first parameters and stored information about the standardized object.