A Business-Driven Approach to Closed-loop Management

In this paper we describe a model based approach to making resource allocation decisions driven by the value of those decisions to the business. We believe this enables a generic approach to realizing close-loop management. Our solution is centered on two technologies being developed at HP Labs: Quartermaster and Management by Business Objectives (MBO). Our approach was validated by a demonstrator built using these technologies, and other commercially available HP products.

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