Information is not managed as capital for support and utilization

Today’s enterprise captures information on a multitude of entities that describe structures laid over the business, but captures little information on the few entities that describe the actual business. The many enterprise information systems produce enormous amounts of information. However, little is managed as information capital to be used to operate, improve, and manage the business. Much information is managed by the wrong capabilities, such as management accounting and data management by IT. Most information just adds to the information complexity and overload problems.

The explosion in enterprise information demands new information simplification and management solutions

With emails, internet searches, file transfers, etc information is entering and leaving the enterprise at a high rate and enterprises have no way consolidate information or consistently reference information to the business. Additional structures are laid over the business to reconcile and classify information. Special information systems are needed to locate, extract, reconcile, and report information of use to management. Additional investments are being made in various document, record, report, content, etc management systems to manage information scattered around the enterprise.

This cannot solve the problem. The only way to solve the problem is the simplify and organize the business as a few specific data entities, and professionally manage all data, knowledge, records, and intelligence through reference to these few data entities.

R-pM organizes information capital for delivery and utilization by the business

Result-performance Management organizes the business to capture data and produce other information related directly to the business and to eliminate data collection and information reporting not related to the business. All information in, entering, or leaving the business is referenced to a result, performance solution, or other business entity. Management information is captured and reported on the business for decisions to add, change, or close output results or capital utilized as performance solutions

R-pM organizes information capital for professional support and development

Information capital requires specific capabilities to develop and maintain professionally. All information capital is categorized as business data, human knowledge, facility records, and management intelligence for professional maintenance of information and development of information solutions to produce business and management results [more...]

Actual business decisions are not supported by 20^th century management

All business decisions involve what do we want to accomplish in the business and how do we accomplish it. Each business decision is: A specific output result is to be produced and specific capital in human and other performance solutions are to be utilized.

20^th century management used today does not support management decision-making. Decisions are implemented through an organization structure, decisions are executed through business process, information system, and function structures, decisions are tracked through an account, costing, or quality structure, decisions are reported through financial statement, performance management and other reporting structures. The actual decision is lost in the maze of overlaid structures.

Results produced and capital utilized as performance solutions must be managed to implement, track, and measure management decisions

We can manage decisions made only if we implement, execute, track, measure, and report each specific result to be produced and the human and other capital utilized as performance solutions. We want to know the value of the result produced, the cost of performance in producing each result, and the value added and other direct impacts of the decision on the business.

Organize the business with R-pM to manage all business decisions

Result-performance Management (R-pM) organizes business results produced and capital utilized as performance solutions to produce each result. Management decisions are directly implemented, executed, tracked, measured, and evaluated. Good decisions are identified quickly and built upon. Bad decisions are identified quickly and changed. The business is flexible to quickly implement and change decisions to keep ahead of the competition [more...]

20^th century accounting does not keep complete or accurate financial records on the business

Rule No. 4 of the 10 rules of 21^st century management with R-pM: Keep accurate financial and non-financial records on full business operations and development.

Today's enterprise faces many obstacles to professional record capital management because of several 20^th century problems. Financial accounting is often seen as enterprise records management, but maintains a professional view of what it will record, and acts as an administrative function rather than professional records management. Financial accounting records some financial data against a chart of accounts laid over the business. Financial accounting does not keep complete and accurate financial and non-financial records of the actual business. Most other enterprise records are not maintained as enterprise capital to be available to provide needed performance solutions. Records management is a growing problem in today's enterprise requiring a comprehensive professional records management solution.

R-pM enables complete and accurate financial and non-financial records against the actual business

R-pM maintains all business management information against one business structure to integrate organization, planning, directing, control, and reporting. Structures laid over the business are removed. Management information includes result value, capital worth, performance costs, and result investment returns that are "unknown" today. Tangible information capital is maintained as facility records to record all financial and non-financial business transactions and activity in computer records, documents, images, archives, etc. Accounting is one sub-set of professional records management.

R-pm provides an opportunity for accounting to broaden to professional records management

R-pM provides a unique opportunity for the accounting profession to expand to professional records management. R-pm eliminates unsolvable accounting and financial management problems. Professional facility records management maintains financial and non-financial facility records of the actual business, and provides information capital solutions from records, where needed to produce results at all levels of business management [more...]

20^th century management lays strategic structures over the business

20^th century management contrives structures to define the corporate strategy in corporate plans, maps, investment plans, and other structures laid over the business. The strategic business is not planned. The overlaid structures do not relate to the actual business and may conflict with structures used to manage the corporation. Strategic value numbers are pulled out of the air. There is no good method to govern the transition from the current corporate status to the strategic objective. Corporate governance cannot govern the actual business, so it governs through compliance with arbitrary rules and regulations.

Rule No. 6 for 21^st Century Management states: Plan and govern the transition from today’s value to approved strategic value.

R-pM defines the current business to know result value, capital worth, performance costs, and investment returns to provide the foundation for planning the strategic business. The strategic business structure shows results to be produced and capital to be utilized at a 2-5 year strategic horizon. Strategic result value is substantiated in specific period by period result goals requiring growth in value of current results and the value of new results enabled by implementation of capital of worth.

R-pM provides information on the current to strategic business for management and good governance

R-pM enables good management and governance of the transition to the strategic business by reporting financial and non-financial status against result goals and performance expectations, updating strategic estimates, providing result evaluations and performance assessments, and providing management information on anticipated opportunities, threats, and developments. Good corporate governance ensures responsible business management and planned progress to the approved strategic business [more...]

20^th century management information is inaccurate and incomplete

20^th century management used today can report enormous amounts of information against organization and management structures laid over the business. Large information systems process information on the various organization, planning, process, system, account, project, administration, performance, and reporting structures. Additional systems try to make sense of the information for management use.

But, since the actual business is not organized or managed, no information is reported on details of the actual business. Business data in value created, costs incurred, return on capital investments, business value-added, capital worth, and enterprise business worth remain unknown.

R-pM reports accurate and complete information on the actual business

R-pM organizes one business structure for one set of accurate, complete, and consistent management information on the actual business for organization, planning, direction, control, and reporting. Existing processes and systems are rationalized for use in the actual business. R-pM reports the actual business across the breath of the business in business results produced and to the depth of the business in the capital utilized in performance solutions to produce results.

R-pM reports result value-added, quality determinates, and capital worth

R-pM reports business management information not available today in result value, strategic result value creation, result value-added, performance costs, capital development costs and value-added and returns, capital worth, and many other performance indicators and result metrics that are not known today. R-pM provides complete and accurate information on the actual business and phases out the inaccurate, inconsistent, and incomplete management information provided today. R-pM enables management to use common sense to manage the actual business rather than trying to follow arbitrary rules imposed by structures laid over the business [more...]

20^th century management does not maintain accurate financial and non-financial records on the actual business

20^th century management used today does not keep records on the capital items utilized as performance solutions by the business as a set, and does not keep records on the output results produced by the business as a set. Thus, the business cannot be organized or managed and there is no set of complete and accurate records on the business to provide actual business management information. Instead, information is maintained against contrived structures laid over the business, such as organization, planning, budget and account, and reporting structures.

Accounting maintains a sub-set of enterprise records in financial and statistical accounts against a contrived chart of accounts. Financial records on the full cycle of performance costs and result value creation are not maintained. Many non-financial records that should be maintained are not considered as accounting responsibility and are never recorded and managed as information capital.

The records management problem is getting serious with the explosion in email, file transfers, and other records created, entering, and leaving the enterprise. The enterprise has no way to reference records to the actual business, to prevent records being lost due to information complexity, and to properly manage records as information capital.

Rule No. 4 for 21^st Century Management: Keep financial and non-financial records on full business operations and development

Management needs complete and accurate information on the actual business for good corporate governance and business management. This is not possible with 20^th century management, which does not organize or manage the actual business. 21^st Century Management requires accurate financial and non-financial records for the full cycle of business operations, along the chain of results produced by the business, and across the operation-development continuum.

R-pM maintains accurate financial and non-financial records on the actual business to provide accurate and complete management information

Result-performance Management (R-pM) organizes the actual business so that one set of accurate and complete facility records can be maintained on the business and accurate reports on the full business cycle of cost-effective performance producing value-quality results, the results from supplier-provided input results and through enterprise business results to final customer results, and the investment costs in new performance solutions and the return in new result value can be provided. R-pM broadens traditional accounting to professional records management [more...]

20^th Century Management lays organization and management structures over the business. Information systems are implemented over the business to process the data produced by the various structures. The information often conflicts with the business and causes information complexity. The systems require large IT processing overheads, Since the business is not organized the systems cannot capture actual business data or report actual business management information.

21^st Century Management defines the actual business first as chains of results that must be produced across the business. Information system processing is integrated with business processing to produce each result required by the business. Performance cost, effectiveness, capacity, expectations are captured for each solution utilized. Result value, quality, volume, goals, etc. are captured for each result. Information is updated to one business management system to report the consistently-defined business structure for actual and accurate business information.

Existing processing that does not produce a needed result and that reports irrelevant or inaccurate business information is deactivated. Eventually 21^st century information systems evolve into a series of linked business-system processing modules that produce specific results and that update one business management system that accurately reports business performance and business results. [more...]

20^th century management does not capture actual business data and does not provide the information to manage the actual business. 20^th century management gathers mountains of information, which are mostly irrelevant to the business, related to structures laid over the business. This creates the enormous IT overheads and information complexity problems. 20^th century management provides management information to manage structures laid over the business, rather than managing the actual business.

21^st Century Management manages the actual business through two integrating entities, capital utilized as performance solutions and economic output results produced. This enables data to be gathered on all actual business activity. Actual business management information solutions can be delivered to utilize any specific performance solution to produce any specific result, anywhere in the business. Information capital is managed professionally by those with the capability to provide information performance solutions needed to create value in results. [more...]

20^th century management provides many methods of cost accounting. None of the methods has been able to capture all costs and charge all costs to the proper entity to absorb costs. Known costs are captured from separate entities, such as employee, fixed asset, cash, and supplies. Costs are charged to entities like center, activity, station, etc, that show where the cost was incurred, but were not produced by the cost.

Management needs one entity that contains all the costs incurred by the business and one entity that was produced by the cost to absorb the cost properly. Result-performance Management (R-pM) provides the one entity "performance solution" that produces all costs. R-pM provides the one entity "result" that was produced by the cost to create value, and can properly absorb costs to know result value-added. Result-performance costing is the only method to know all performance costs, and to charge costs properly to the value of the specific result produced. [more...]

Business and competitive intelligence is high-worth capital of growing importance in the 21^st century enterprise. Most 20^th century enterprises do not manage intelligence as capital to develop the needed intelligence solutions. Much intelligence is left up to functions like management accounting and management information support. 20^th century enterprises are unable to deliver intelligence information solutions precisely where and when needed to produce management results.

Management intelligence must be managed as both management capital and as information capital. Intelligence is management capital that must be developed and supported by professionals with the required management research and analysis capabilities. Specific management intelligence performance solutions must be developed to support management at all levels to produce specific results. Management intelligence solutions must be integrated in the enterprise information base to be delivered or accessed as needed to produce results.

Result-performance Management provides the management capital management capabilities to develop intelligence to support management strategy and tactics capital, and to develop the specific management solutions needed. R-pM integrates management intelligence solutions by result and performance solutions, as needed, in the enterprise information base to be delivered, or accessed as needed, for management and governance results. [more...]