Information systems gather corporate data that is irrelevant to the business

20^th century information systems do not capture business data or provide the information needed to manage the actual business. 20^th century information systems manage organization and management structures laid over the business. Management structures are arbitrary and define inconsistent data entities. Data on hundreds entities must be recorded throughout the corporation, and then processed and managed creating information complexity and providing mountains of confusing information.

R-pM organizes the business to capture actual business data

The objective of 21^st century management is to organize and manage the business of the corporation. Result-performance Management (R-pM) directly organizes and manages the business to record actual business data and report business management information that is not available today. Timely integrated information solutions are delivered to produce specific business and management results. The business is defined by three information entities and managed through six information sets.

Business management information is used to manage the business directly

R-pM provides actual business management information on the worth and return of capital investments, utilization of capital in performance to incur costs and produce results, and results of value produced by the business. Once actual business information is provided, corporate information provided by overlaid 20^th century structures becomes irrelevant and can be abolished. 21^st century management can then concentrate on managing the business [more...]

20^th century management used today is a dead-end that will never improve

21^st Century Management Magazine has published many articles on the unsolvable problems with 20^th century management. These problems have never been solved in spite of thousands of 20^th century management books written and solutions proposed. The problems will never be solved by continuing 20^th century management used by all enterprises today into the 21^st century.

20^th century management must be replaced by 21^st Century Management

20^th century management structures laid over the business and unsolvable problems caused by conflicts between the business and overlaid structures must be abolished. The only way to abolish structures laid over the business is to organize the actual business “the utilization of capital of worth in performance to incur costs and produce value in results” for 21^st Century Management.

R-pM is the only solution for 21^st Century Management

Result-performance Management is the only way to organize the business for 21^st Century Management. Once the business is organized all overlaid structures are removed and the business is managed directly to move from the current to strategic business. R-pM provides the breakthrough benefits of 21^st Century Management that are impossible today [more...]

Today, we organize and manage the enterprise not the business

An organized business reorganizes with each business change. There is never a need for an organization study. The generally-accepted definition of the enterprise business is the activity of providing goods and services.

20^th century methods of business organization and management do not organize and manage the activity of providing goods and services. An enterprise organization structure is laid over the business, immediately creating the unsolvable re-organization problem.

20^th century management used today is a dead-end

Since the business is not organized, the business cannot be managed. Additional enterprise management structures are contrived for the strategy, plans, business processes, accounts, systems, development, reporting, etc. The many structures create business complexity, and each structure defines the enterprise through its own entities, creating enormous information complexity.

There are unlimited ways to contrive enterprise organization and management structures. The overlaid structures conflict with the actual business creating the unsolvable 20^th century business organization and management problems.

R-pM is a new breakthrough to organize and manage the actual business

There is a need for a new breakthrough to eliminate 20^th century problems by actually organizing the business and using the business itself as one integrated structure for 21^st century management. There is only one way to organize and manage the business, Result-performance Management (R-pM) [more...]

Information Technology is a high-cost corporate overhead today

The typical corporation spends enormous sums on Information Technology and has many complex enterprise information systems, but still does not have an information system to manage the actual business, The corporation has much capital administered as IT instead of being managed for corporate benefit, and has much information administered as technology instead of being managed to provide information solutions for business and management results.

R-pM reduces enterprise information systems to essential business processing and management

Result-performance Management (R-pM) uses IT to manage the actual business as one simplified Result-performance Management System. R-pM manages system processing routines or simplified application programs as performance solutions integrated with the business process, where needed, to produce a specific result. R-pM eliminates other overlaid 20^th century information systems, duplicated and irrelevant information, and the need for a large IT overhead. R-pM organizes all capital, including IT, for capital management to produce results.

R-pM manages data, knowledge, records, and intelligence as information capital

R-pM manages all information as capital to produce data, knowledge, record, and intelligence solutions needed to produce specific business results. All information in the enterprise references a business data entity as part of one integrated Business Information Base. Information technology capital, support, and capabilities are integrated as part of normal 21^st century business capital management, replacing the IT organization and eliminating excessive IT costs [more...]

The business enterprise can be managed or the enterprise business can be managed

20^th century management utilized by enterprises today organizes and manages the business enterprise by laying organization and management structures over the business. The enterprise business is not organized and business management information is not provided for business management.

The alternative is R-pM to organize the actual enterprise business for 21^st Century Management. One simplified business structure is used for current and strategic organization and management. Actual business data is captured and actual business information is used for management.

20^th century management is a dead-end that can never solve existing or future management problems

The structures laid over the business conflict with the business creating unsolvable problems with reorganizations, change management, business alignment, unknown costs and value, unknown worth and investment returns, and on and on. The problems are compounded by the expanding use of information technology to manage overlaid structures rather than the business. New IT architectures and resources are added, but can never solve the problems and just add unsolvable problems.

The only future alternative is R-pM to organize the business for 21^st Century Management

R-pM organizes and manages the actual current and strategic business. One set of business data entities are managed and reported. All information in the business is referenced to the business in one Business Information Base. Current systems are organized as business solutions, as appropriate, and unneeded systems and structures are abolished. The business is organized to leverage IT for direct business management, flexible change, and rapid growth. The business is no longer burdened by unsolvable problems and customer value and quality is managed directly [more...]

Key performance indicators measure the enterprise and not the business

Key performance indicators produced today measure the various organization, process, system, performance management, and other structures laid over the business, rather then the actual business. To measure and manage the business, the attributes of capital utilized as performance solutions, output results produced, and performance in the utilization of a performance solution to produce a result must be measured and managed.

Key performance indicators mix capital, results, and other entities together under the heading performance

Performance is defined to include both the actions executed and results accomplished. This prevents the actual business from being organized and managed. Many performance indicators measure capital, results, and other entities. Very little actual business performance is measured of managed. Most actual business performance in costs, effectiveness, problems, uncertainty, value creation, etc remains unknown.

Result-performance Management (R-pM) measures and records the actual business

R-pM organizes results and capital as performance solutions in one business structure. R-pM organizes the business by deploying specific performance solutions to produce specific results. At this point, performance records are set up to capture the performance of the specific solution to produce the specific result in capacity, expectations, and other indicators. Performance transactions record actual performance costs, effectiveness, etc producing result value, quality, etc. Performance records and performance solution and result totals are updated, as needed, for each instance of performance [more...]

R-pM defines actual business organization and management

R-pM provides the concepts, procedures, and learning so that any enterprise can organize and manage the actual business. Part of R-pM is 21^st Century Management to provide the framework for business operations, education, services, and solutions that can be utilized effectively by any business.

21^st Century Management provides the framework for collaboration and common solutions

R-pM is designed to simplify the business and to provide the foundation for business collaboration and common education, services, and performance solutions that any business can use. This requires a minimum set of fundamentally-correct and consistent 21^st Century Management conventions, definitions, and standards that are followed by R-pM users, educators, business management software and solutions, and service providers to reduce business costs and enable effective communications and collaboration.

21^st Century Management is documented in The R-pM Toolkit.

21^st Century Management descriptions are included in all R-pM Toolkit documentation. The 21^st Century Management conventions, and definitions are included in the current R-pM Toolkit. Additional 21^st Century Management conventions will be refined and included in future R-pM Toolkit updates. 21^st Century Management standards will evolve as R-pM is employed in practice.

The R-pM Community can provide inputs into 21^st Century Management

The intention is to make 21^st Century Management a product of the R-pM community so that anyone can contribute their ideas and requirements to be reviewed for inclusion in the continuing development and refinement of 21^st Century Management [more...]

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

Result-performance Management (R-pM) is the natural way you organize your personal business. You produce results in the things you accomplish. To produce results, you utilize your capital as performance solutions in your capability, tools, equipment, money, plans, instructions, etc. You manage your business through common sense. You use R-pM instinctively because R-pm is the only way to organize and manage your personal business or any other business.

Your company organizes and manages the company, rather than the business

But on your job, you no longer naturally utilize performance solutions to produce results. Your company does not organize or manage the business. The company lays contrived structures over the business to manage the company. All business schools, management books, packaged solutions, consulting advice, professional bodies, and on-the-job experience teach us to lay contrived structures over the business. You cannot manage or perform using common sense. You must follow various rules, regulations, and procedures to utilize arbitrary processes, systems, accounting, and other structures.

Use your natural method to organize your company business

Use your natural method of utilizing specific performance solutions to produce specific business results. You will see improvement in the job you do today, and understand the potential in organizing your company business for the breakthrough advantages of 21^st Century Management [more...]

20^th century business definitions are confusing and imprecise

What is your definition of an "enterprise" or the "business"? How do you or your performance management methods define "performance"? How do you define "result"?

Precise definitions are needed to organize and manage the business of the enterprise properly. Current definitions of performance mix performance activity together with output results and report and manage both as "performance". Current usage of the term "result" is as economic outputs that leave the enterprise.

The definition of the business conflicts with the definition of performance and results

Yet, the generally-accepted definition of the enterprise business as "the activity of providing goods and services" indicates that the enterprise business has two components:

• The performance component in business activity
• The result component in the goods, and services provided

20^th century management is unable to organize and manage the two components of the business because performance and results are mixed together and managed as performance.

R-pM precisely defines business, performance, and results for 21^st Century Management

Properly defining "performance" and "result" and then separating results from performance are the first steps to organizing the enterprise business for 21^st Century Management [more...]

Conventions, definitions, and standards used in 20^th century management are inconsistent and confusing

20^th century management does not organize the natural business or apply common-sense management, as we do in our personal business. Arbitrary contrived structures are laid over the business. Each structure has its own set of conventions, definitions, and standards. Added together this produces an inconsistent hodge-podge of conventions, definitions, and standards that are applied separately for organization, planning, processes and systems, accounting, administration, IT architectures, performance management, reporting, and other parts of enterprise management.

Rule No 10 of 21^st Century Management: Employ 21^st Century Management conventions and standards

The 21^st century business must avoid the problems inherent in 20^th century management. This is done by organizing the business with R-pM for 21^st Century Management. 21^st Century Management uses one set of conventions, definitions, and standards that are applied to the actual business and used for all management organization, planning, directing, control, and reporting. Common conventions, definitions, and standards enable business collaboration and education, solutions, and services that can be applied to any business.

R-pM provides one consistent set of conventions, definitions, and standards for 21^st Century Management

21^st Century Management conventions, definitions, and standards are defined, updated, and maintained in the R-pM Toolkit to support the application and use of R-pM. The conventions, definitions, and standards can be followed by any education institution, solution developer, or service provider to meet the needs of any 21^st century enterprise [more...]