Patents by Inventor Michael L. Goolden

Michael L. Goolden has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20090210296
    Abstract: A method and system for providing a performance evaluation of an at least one employee by a supervisor in an organization. The method and system provide for collecting a plurality of numerical performance goals data for the at least one employee and storing the plurality of numerical performance goals data in a database; collecting numerical business measures data related to the organization and storing the numerical business measures data in the database. Further, the method and system provide for normalizing the numerical performance goals data and the numerical business measures data to a common scale to generate normalized performance goals data and normalized business measures data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2009
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Inventor: Michael L. Goolden
  • Publication number: 20080082456
    Abstract: Systems and methods for assessing and improving the performance of an organization, including: identifying a business measure; determining whether one or more target values are appropriate for the business measure; determining one or more actual-to-target values for the business measure in response to determining that corresponding target values are appropriate, the actual-to-target values reflecting ratios of actual values to the corresponding target values; determining whether one or more projects for increasing the value of the business measure are appropriate for the business measure; determining one or more project values for the business measure in response to determining that corresponding projects are appropriate, the project values reflecting an on-time completion of the corresponding projects; and weighted-averaging the actual-to-target values and the project values to determine a value of the business measure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Applicant: MLG SYSTEMS, LLC - DBA L7 PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
    Inventor: Michael L. Goolden