US Patent:
20070162321, Jul 12, 2007
Inventors:
Bryan Behrmann - Fenton MO, US
Michael Dunagan - Poughkeepsie NY, US
Eric Pyle - Wappingers Falls NY, US
Thomas Ward - Highland NY, US
Terell White - Cairo NY, US
Assignee:
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION - ARMONK NY
International Classification:
G06F 15/02
Abstract:
A method for identifying human-resource work content to outsource offshore of an organization. The method is provided on a computer readable medium and includes the steps of identifying at least one task being performed by an organization; associating each identified task with a functional group within a plurality of functional groups related to the organization; determining information about individual human resources spent on each task; determining task information about human resources spent on the plurality of tasks, the task information based on the determined information about individual human resources spent on each task; using the determined task information to determine a value of each task; and outsourcing tasks having a value lower than a predefined limit to at least one of offshore and to a low cost supplier.