Task Management Planning Optimization via Historical Data

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Solution Overview

Problem

Large organizations face inefficiencies in project management and personnel utilization due to sub-optimal task management planning, leading to underutilization of employees and competitive disadvantages.

Innovation Solution

A method utilizing continuous self-learning techniques, implemented by a processor, which accesses and adjusts task management planning information by retrieving historical data from completed projects, reassigning tasks, and adjusting time allocations to optimize task distribution and project planning, even in the face of unplanned events.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If manual task management planning is performed by individual users, then ease of operation is improved, but productivity deteriorates due to sub-optimal plans and employee underutilization

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of operationVSAvoidproductivity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs self-optimization by automatically retrieving historical task management information and adjusting future planning information without requiring manual intervention. The processor autonomously analyzes past project data and uses it to optimize task assignments and timing, enabling the system to improve its own planning capabilities while maintaining ease of use for users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms by retrieving historical task management information from completed projects and using this feedback to adjust and optimize future planning information. This continuous feedback loop allows the system to learn from past performance and continuously improve planning quality, resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and productivity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Productivity

If automated planning systems are implemented, then productivity is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveproductivityVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts only the necessary historical task management information from completed projects and uses this extracted data to adjust future planning. By selectively retrieving and processing only relevant historical data rather than analyzing all available information, the system reduces computational complexity while maintaining improved productivity through optimized planning.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by retrieving historical task management information before generating future planning information. This preliminary retrieval and analysis of historical data enables the system to pre-compute optimization parameters, reducing the complexity of real-time planning decisions while improving overall productivity through better-informed planning.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Adaptability or versatility

If continuous self-learning techniques are applied, then adaptability is improved, but loss of information increases due to processing historical data

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveadaptabilityVSAvoidloss of information
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies local quality by retrieving and processing only the specific historical task management information relevant to the current planning task, rather than processing all historical data uniformly. This selective processing approach maintains adaptability through continuous self-learning while minimizing information loss by focusing computational resources on the most relevant historical data patterns.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS11681963B2Method and system for optimization of task management issue planning
Publication Date: 2023.06.20 JPMORGAN CHASE BANK NA
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AI summary

A method for optimizing personnel utilization is provided. The method includes: accessing first task management planning information that relates to a first project that has not been completed; using the accessed first task management planning information to identify a plurality of tasks to be performed in connection with the first project and to identify a plurality of persons to be assigned to respective tasks; retrieving historical task management information that relates to at least one project that has been completed; and adjusting at least a first portion of the first task management planning information based on the retrieved historical task management information.