BUSINESS ANALYSIS TOOL AND METHOD

摘要

A matrix (8) is established for the business assets of a company and is divided into a 3 x 3 array of cells (8C) and distributed over human, analogue and digital categories of information and technical, commercial and financial aspects of the business. A user is guided by the program to enter the relevant business assets in the appropriate cells and the program then guides the user in compiling an inventory of all the business assets and valuing the assets in each category associated with a respective cell. Weighting factors are applied to all the crude values to take into account the scarcity of particular items of information, their security and the dependence on security of their value. A two-dimensional "footprint" of value against information type and business aspect results which can be compared with corresponding "footprints" of other companies in the sector to enable anomalies to be identified.