IRI's I³ proprietary diagnostic is the foundation of the consulting firm's qualitative research process to assess human and organizational performance. The MohoClassifier software is being integrated into I³ to help IRI drive down the costs of processing research data, improve the turnaround time on reports, and generally aid in defining issues to be addressed promptly, before they become management crises for companies. The mohoClassifier software will vastly improve the amount of data that can be sorted per man-hour, while maintaining the accuracy and consistency of categorization that IRI has perfected in its 23-year history.

IRI looks at the restraining forces and drivers of opportunities confronting companies by taking verbatim comments from employees through a qualitative research questionnaire and focus group process. These thousands of comments are then manually sorted into 14 key categories and an additional four levels of depth. Typically the amount of data that can be reviewed and categorized manually by one person in one hour is approximately 100 short comments, with an accuracy rate of 97 percent. In comparison, Mohomine's software can process over 500,000 comments of 10k each in that same timeframe, with comparable accuracy.

Tom Wydra, CTO of IRI said, "Because the mohoClassifier software recognizes the commonality of patterns instead of looking at an exact match of words, it is able to assess and sort the comments very quickly, saving us an immense number of man-hours. Integrating our taxonomy database and Mohomine's machine learning has been a walk in the park."

According to Wydra, the software automatically recognizes the taxonomy, and can help IRI to identify areas that need to be more specific. This enables a quick re-categorization, if necessary, to fine-tune the data - a process that would have been cost-prohibitive if done manually - and results in even better and more useful information in their reports to clients. Based on the easy and rapid integration, IRI expects to deploy the software within just a few months. Industries serviced by IRI's I³ Diagnostic include the health care, manufacturing, financial, insurance, retail operations, communications and utilities industries.

Sameer Samat, CTO of Mohomine, commented, "IRI has worked many years to develop the expertise to categorize accurately employee comments about their workplace and now has a taxonomy database of over 500,000 comment types. The mohoClassifier is able to make use of the company's domain expertise to automate the categorization of this unstructured data, shortening the training and processing time for analysts. The software converts unstructured text into actionable intelligence, resulting in reduced costs and improved efficiencies. Usage in this application also validates the myriad number of ways the software can be used."

About Mohomine
Founded in 1999, privately held Mohomine (www.mohomine.com) provides text processing automation software that enables people and organizations to better access and utilize mission-critical data contained in unstructured text. More than 150 Global 5000 enterprises use Mohomine's products and solutions, including PeopleSoft, Oracle, and U.S. national security organizations. Mohomine's licensable extraction and classification technologies automate the processing of text data via intelligent algorithms that convert unstructured or semi-structured content to highly structured XML - driving down text processing costs and enabling people and organizations to focus on higher value/higher priority activities.

About IRI Consultants to Management
IRI, headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, is a management-consulting firm that provides integrated solutions for a wide range of human resource and employee relations' issues. Since 1979, IRI has assisted mid-size to Fortune 500 companies improve their economic performance through improved human performance. IRI provides measurement-driven solutions for a multitude of employer issues, such as leadership development, work redesign, technology change, knowledge and performance management, and economic communications. IRI delivers a broad array of products and services to help companies capture growth, increase financial performance and improve human performance.