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...]

Enterprises have much to gain by properly organizing and leveraging information to provide value. Information is not managed properly for support, integration, and utilization in today’s enterprise.

Information capital must be managed from two perspectives:

• Information capital development, support, and maintenance to increase capital worth
• Information integration and provision as solutions to create value in results

Today's enterprise manages information as technology or an administrative function, rather than as specific data, knowledge, record, or intelligence information capital.

The enterprise also lacks the integrating entities to create an enterprise information base and deliver information solutions to be utilized by the business. Information is maintained on a wide variety of entities in various systems and solutions creating a large data reconciliation and integration problem [more...]