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 enterprise 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.

A new breakthrough to organize and manage the actual business for the 21^st century

Now we have 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. The knowledge and procedures to organize and manage the business is provided by Result-performance Management (R-pM). All business organization, planning, direction, control, reporting, and governance use only the current and strategic business structures. Structures laid over the business, conflicts with the business, and unsolvable problems are eliminated. [more...]

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...]

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...]

Many managers are interested in business management, but are concerned about the authenticity

Now with the economic crisis, 21^st century business management is gaining more recognition as the only solution to eliminate the 20^th century management problems that enabled the crisis. But, people ask how business management originated. Some people are concerned about the authenticity and viability of business management.

20^th century management problems were encountered and the need for business management was conceived piece by piece in work as a management consultant for over 30 years. I specialized in business organization, management improvement, and information system development projects with such firms as Booz Allen and Hamilton, Multinational Management, Price Waterhouse, A.T. Kearney, and Arthur D. Little.

Business management was originally developed as aids to capital solution development and management improvement projects

Business management concepts first evolved as an aid to business and information systems design and later to manage business change projects, both the project and the changes to the business as the results of the project. It became clear that the only solution to business organization and management problems was to organize and manage the business. Contrived organization and management structures laid over the business had to be eliminated.

Formal development of business management began in 2002

After retiring from active consulting, work began in 2002, to develop and document business management knowledge as Result-performance Management (R-pM) to provide the one structure to organize and manage the business. The Business Management Toolkit is now available, and continues to be developed as business management evolves. Business management is now launched for use by forward-looking enterprises that want to learn their actual business, and then organize and manage the business for breakthrough cost reductions and competitive advantages. Business management is available for use by governments as the basis for a Business Management Program, to solve the problems that caused the economic crisis and build a new architecture for corporate, industry, and economic management. [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...]

"Business Transformation" has never organized or transformed the business

"Business Transformation" brings shudders to many managers, who went through Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) only to find that they spent a lot of money for different problems and limited benefits.

The problem was that "business transformation" did not transform the business. Transformation changed enterprise organization and management structures laid over the business. The enterprise business, the activity of providing goods and services, still was not organized or managed before or after the "business transformation".

The one "business transformation" is the transformation from enterprise management to actual business management

Enterprises need only one real business transformation to organize and manage the business with Result-performance Management (R-pM). Once the business is organized and managed through one business structure, there is never a need for business transformation, since the business organization changes naturally with business change. [more...]

20^th century management consulting is based on obsolete organization and management structures laid over the client business. The consulting effort is directed at improving performance rather than improving the business and creating value. Many projects implement additional business process and information system structures over the business, which propagates unsolvable client problems.

21^st Century Management Consulting is based on Result-performance Management (R-pM) to professionally organize and manage the actual enterprise customer business. R-pM Consultants employ the R-pM Management Consulting Model to work in partnership with the enterprise and help the enterprise achieve planned and measured result value-added success. New business processes or information systems are implemented as complete solution modules to produce specific results along the result value-quality chain.

R-pM is coming in 2008 to provide the future of business organization and management. R-pM consulting is the future of professional management consulting. [more...]

20^th century management lays a monolithic business process over the business. Results are mixed with performance and defined as "performance" preventing actual business management. The objective is to manage "performance quality", but costs, value, effectiveness, and quality are hidden in the process.

Rule No. 2 of 21^st Century Management is to "Generate profits from a chain of managed value and quality". Result-performance Management (R-pM) replaces business processes with result value-quality chains to organize and manage the actual business to manage performance capacity to produce a result volume, performance effectiveness producing result quality, and performance costs creating result value. Result value-added is the result value less the total result cost. The actual business is managed to generate profits from a chain of managed result value-added. Contrived overlaid business processes are abolished. [more...]