Management consultants fail to address the unsolvable problems faced by all enterprises today

Most of the financial institutions, corporations, and other enterprises that have management problems retain management consultants for advice and management improvements. No current management consultant has the outlook or capability to help their client eliminate the one problem that holds back all enterprises and causes unsolvable management problems, the failure to manage the business.

All consultants today promote dead-end 20^th century enterprise management

Much change management consulting has been packaged into business services provided by hired staff, rather than professional problem solving for measured improvement. Recent books and media publicity show cases where the enterprise did not receive the professional services expected from management consultants. All consulting services today promote obsolete 20^st century enterprise management to lay new or improved organization, account, system, and other management structures over the business.

A new business management consulting model is available to restore professionalism and prevent business problems

A 21^st century business management consulting model is now available to help enterprises organize and menage the business to eliminate problems by providing:

• Services based on organizing the business for 21^st century management
• A method for the enterprise to lead and participate properly in business change
• A clear framework to manage the scope and participation for both parties
• Methods and tools that both the enterprise and consultant understand and use
• Planned and measured value of the consultant and success of the enterprise

The model builds enterprise capabilities to manage the business and business change, and focuses consultants on high-value professional results the client enterprise cannot achieve on its own.

The business management consulting model organizes services within an enterprise, market, industry, or economy business structure

The 21^st century business management consulting model scopes all services within a business structure, and extends the structure to cover the complete enterprise, enterprise businesses within a corporation business, and businesses within markets, industries, and economies. All services provide a measurable result value-added return to the client enterprise and service users. [more...]

20^th century management cannot manage investments, development, or returns

20^th century enterprise management develops capital as a tangible asset or project outcome. The specific capital items to be developed and the specific business improvements to be made are not defined or managed. So, it is impossible to plan and manage capital development to provide a measured return on investment.

Rule No. 7 of 21^st century business management: Manage all capital investments to gain a planned return

The investment management problem is solved by rule no 7 of 21^st century business management. All capital investments must manage the results to be produced by the investment as well as the capital needed as specific capital solutions. The increase in value in new and improved results and the development cost of specific capital solutions must be planned to justify the investment. Development project results are managed to implement solutions to create value and added result value is measured in operations know the return on investment.

Plan and develop both the results and capital solutions needed in results-driven capital development.

21^st century business management replaces capital development with results-driven capital development to actually plan and manage capital investments and development for a measured return on investment. The return on investment is provided by the value created in results produced to date attributed to each capital solution utilized. [more...]

The 21^st Century Business Management Consulting Model organizes and manages the business to avoid unsolvable problems

Enterprises today do not manage their business. They manage the enterprise by laying organization, corporate plan, business process, account, and other structures over the business. Unsolvable problems occur due to clashes between overlaid structures and the actual business. The problems disappear when the actual business is organized to manage one business structure to integrate planning, directing, control, and reporting.

The 21^st Century Business Management Consulting Model guides the enterprise and consultants to organize the actual business and work together to achieve new business value in result value-quality chains, result-performance costing, strategic value management, result-performance optimization, project result management, human capability management, and other new concepts not possible with 20^th century enterprise management.

Opportunities are emerging for management consultants to support 21^st century business management

21^st century business management will ultimately replace obsolete 20^th century enterprise management, creating a demand for business management consultants. The knowledge and procedures for managing the business and the 21^st Century Business Management Consulting Model are provided and supported by Result-performance Management (R-pM). Business management and business management consulting sales and delivery are supported by R-pM websites, The R-M Business Management Toolkit, and other business management documentation. Professional management consultants and firms, who want to provide professional services that provide planned and measured enterprise benefit, will gain significantly by registering and practicing as 21^st century business management consultants. [more...]

Management Consultants today provide counter-productive enterprise management services

20^th century enterprise management consulting helps the client manage the enterprise through structures laid over the business, rather than directly managing the enterprise business. With the advent of 21^st century business management, 20^th century management consulting is obsolete. Yet, management consultants today continue to inflict high-costs and unsolvable problems on client enterprises through re-organizations, enterprise strategy, business process, information system, performance management, administration, and other 20^th century enterprise management structures and services.

21^st century business management consultants help customers manage the actual business

Today it is possible to manage the business directly using Result-performance Management (R-pM) knowledge and procedures. 21^st century business management replaces enterprise structures laid over the business with current and strategic business structures. More consultants are licensing as R-pM Business Management Consultants, to provide professional 21^st century business management consulting services that assist enterprise customers to organize and manage the business and eliminate unsolvable 20^th century problems. All R-pM business management consulting services are based on achieving planned and measured result value-added benefits. All consulting services employ the R-pM Business Management Consulting Model and 21^st century business management conventions and standards.

Prepare for the future demand for 21^st century business management consulting

Business management consultants are provided extensive R-pM knowledge and support to build capabilities and experience in actual business management. 21^st century business management consultants will be well placed when competition forces all enterprises to organize the business to gain the competitive advantages of 21^st century business management. [more...]

Management consultants today are enterprise consultants not business consultants

Management consultants today utilize conventional 20^th century management practices to manage the enterprise through contrived organization and management structures laid over the business. Many consultants claim to be business management consultants, but in fact have no concept of what the business is and how to manage the business.

Management consultants must learn to organize and manage the business to become 21^st century business management consultants

Management consultants must learn to organize and manage the actual business by utilizing the knowledge and guidance provided by Result-performance Management (R-pM). Management consultants utilizing R-pM knowledge are licensed as 21^st century business management consultants. The decade of the 2010's will be the decade of business management as enterprises organize the business to rectify and prevent the problems that led to the current economic crisis.

The 21^st century business management consulting model guides enterprises and consultants to work together to manage the business

R-pM is described in the R-pM Business Management Toolkit, which guides both the enterprise client and the consultant to work together to organize and manage the business. The Toolkit includes the 21^st century business management consulting model which provides the framework and guidelines for the consultant to work in partnership with the enterprise to organize and manage the actual business for significant competitive advantage and future business success. [more...]

Management Consultants need a way to help Clients out of the Recession

Both enterprises and management consultants are hurting as a consequence of the economic recession. Both need a solution to help them recover. The only solution to the problems that caused the recession is Result-performance Management (R-pM). Management Consultants guide the Enterprise to organize and manage the business directly to slash costs, improve product value and quality, and gain new competitive advantages. Enterprises have under-utilized time and capital that provides the opportunity to organize the business for 21^st Century Management to prosper in the recovery.

R-pM is the only way to organize and manage a corporate business

As you see from the articles in 21^st Century Management magazine, Result-performance Management (R-pM) is the only way to organize the actual business into one structure for 21^st Century Management. Unsolvable 20^th century management problems, propagated by management consultants today, are better known as the cause of the economic crisis. R-pM is the only way for professional management consultants to stop supporting obsolete 20^th century management and begin to support growing 21^st Century Management.

R-pM use and the demand for R-pM management support is growing

R-pM has now been launched and is growing in popularity. Many enterprises are downloading the R-pM Toolkit to learn R-pM and to begin to organize and manage their actual business. R-pM is supported by the R-pM Management Consulting Model to assist consultants and corporations to work together to organize and manage the actual corporate business. The benefits of R-pM are becoming well-known and corporations and other enterprises are looking for professional management consultant support. This provides an opportunity for management consultants to join R-pM and become a licensed R-pM Management Consultant. [more...]

Information systems today report massive amounts of information, but no information on the actual business

Information complexity is a common outgrowth of contrived organization and management structures laid over the business. The organization structure creates entities for unit, position, job, function, manager, etc. Management structures create entities for objective, process, center, account, group, activity, responsibility, object, station, and on and on. Each generally-accepted structure uses different entities and different names and definitions for the same entity, preventing information integration and reconciliation. Although much work and many information systems are involved, no actual business data is captured and no actual business management information is reported for management use.

R-pM manages one set of consistent, complete, and accurate business management information

Result-performance Management (R-pM) utilizes modern information technology to organize the business for 21^st century management. R-pM stresses information quality to report one consistent set of information to manage the actual business. R-pM eliminates information complexity by organizing and managing the business through six information sets to define precise capital solutions utilized by the business, business performance, business results, business interactions, and business change over time. [more...]

The financial crisis is caused by business performance problems

Business performance used by financial institutions, corporations, and other enterprises today is a problem. Business performance is defined to include both the performance of the business in the utilization of capital and the output results produced by the business. Capital utilized in performance and results produced are mixed together in business processes, performance management, key performance indicators (KPI), and other business performance structures laid over the business. Business performance improvement stresses performance, performance quality, and the flow of performance without managing improvement to business results produced by the performance or the investment in capital solutions utilized by the business to manage investment returns and capital worth (also called asset value).

Business performance management prevents actual business management

Structures laid over the business hide actual business capital solutions, actual business performance, and actual business results produced. The business changes with each change to a result produced or new investments in capital solutions utilized. Business change cannot be managed and conflicts with overlaid structures causing unsolvable 20^th century management and performance problems.

R-pM converts performance management to Result-performance Management

Result-performance Management (R-pM) organizes the actual business through organized and managed capital solutions utilized in performance to produce specific results in a business structure. The one integrated business structure is used to manage the business for each part of the enterprise. The organized businesses within a larger enterprise add up the enterprise business structure. R-pM manages each business in the enterprise and the complete enterprise business to eliminate performance problems through 21^st century management. [more...]

The current financial crisis shows the need for actual best business management practices

After every corporate financial, management, or governance crisis or scandal the call arises for best business management practices. However, nobody knows what real best business management practices are, since no one has any experience in actually organizing and managing a business. The practices installed are never actual best business management practices, but are a collections of rules and regulations or methods to better manage structures that hide the business and prevent actual business management.

20^th century best practices are the best of bad business practices

20^th century best business practices are a collection of organization, process, system, and administration structures laid over the business for a particular purpose, which have proven effective elsewhere. All 20^th century best business practices are bad business practices, because they add to enterprise overheads and costs, and do not help the enterprise to operate or manage the actual business.

R-pM provides the business definitions and structure for good best practices

Result-performance Management (R-pM) instills best practices across the business for 21^st Century Management. R-pM manages the business by managing the capacity, investment, qualifications, reliability, return, and worth of capital solutions; utilization, cost, effectiveness, uncertainty, and value-added of each capital solution in guided performance; and the volume, total cost, quality, risk, value, and value-added of each result produced. The set of solutions deployed and utilized to produce a result is defined as a capital module. The capital module that produces the best value-quality result can be defined as a best practice. All best practices are then built into the business structure to operate and manage the actual business.

The only way to prevent future corporate financial, management, and governance problems is to use R-pM to organize and manage the businesses. Governments that want to improve local business competitiveness significantly and prevent future crises, must investigate R-pM. [more...]

There is no framework today to guide the development, implementation, and utilization of packaged solutions

Packaged solution providers have never had a consistent framework to design solutions that any enterprise business can employ. This has required that packaged solutions be very problem, function, or industry specific.

The only valid framework for packaged business and management solutions is the business itself

The framework needed to develop consistently-defined capital solutions exists, but it has never been used. That framework is the business.

R-pM organizes the three components that define the enterprise business in results required, capital solutions invested in the business, and the performance of specific solutions that produce specific results. Packaged solutions fit into the business organization and are utilized as part of the business to incur costs and create value in specific results.

R-pM provides consistent support for solution developers, implementation consultants, and solution users

The R-pM Toolkit provides the needed guidance for both the packaged solution developer and the solution user to ensure that solutions seamlessly fit into the enterprise business structure and can be utilized to produce the intended results.The Toolkit includes 21^st Century Management conventions, definitions, and standards that are followed so that any business reduce costs and improve the value and quality of results by using common packaged solutions and services. [more...]