There is no structure to develop packaged solutions that any enterprise can implement and utilize today

Packaged solutions today are designed and developed as solutions to be laid over the business rather that solutions that are implemented as part of the business. There are many unsolvable problems that hamper the integration of packaged solutions with other structures laid over the business and utilization of common solutions across business for effective business collaboration.

The business provides the standard structure needed for solutions that any business can use

When the business is defined and organized there is a consistent structure for developing and utilizing standard packaged application systems, business processes, information solutions, human capabilities, and other capital solutions to produce results. Capital solutions are designed to produce economic output results, result by result, across a chain of results needed for business success. All capital solutions are integrated in the capital structure to work together when utilized in performance to produce specific results.

Business management enables a new generation of simple and effective capital solutions to produce results

Business management organizes the business to provide the framework needed for a new generation of capital solutions that produce specific results and are designed to work together with other packaged and in-house solutions. Result chains are created by implementing solutions for each result that must be produced within the chain in the internal or external organization that can provide the most cost-effective performance to produce the highest value-quality result. [more...]

Today, data is collected and information is reported against structures laid over the business

Today, companies and other enterprises collected data against organization, account, activity, process, information system, and other structures laid over every business. Enormous amounts of data is collected against the overlaid structures, but actual business data is never captured and actual business management information is never reported. Enterprise and corporation management is hampered by the overload of conflicting information on enterprise structures and the lack of management information on the actual business.

Business management captures actual business data and reports actual business management information

Business management captures one set of complete, consistent, and accurate data against the actual business structure and reports one set of relevant, complete, and accurate management information. Actual business information is reported at the enterprise business level and consolidated in the corporation business structure at the corporate level. Government business reporting requirements can consolidate consistently defined enterprise business data in government business structures by industry, economic sector, market, or economy.

Management has the complete and accurate information to manage and optimize the business and new investments in the business

Management has information that is not available today to manage the actual business. Capital investments are managed to provide the planned and measured return and to manage the ongoing worth of capital solutions utilization and eventual sale or disposal. This includes the "asset value" of capital investments in securities and other instruments to produce income, dividend, and growth results. Business operations are managed as result value-quality chains to manage result value-added across the business to produce profit and shareholder value results. Management has one set of management information needed for business organization, planning, direction, control, reporting, and governance. [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...]

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.

Reduce enterprise information systems to essential business processing and management

The key to proper information system utilization and information technology management is 21^st century business management. Result-performance Management (R-pM) provides the knowledge and procedures to use IT to manage the actual business as one simplified Business Management System. System processing routines or simplified application programs are designed and managed as capital solutions integrated with the business process, where needed, to produce a specific result. Other overlaid 20^th century information systems, duplicated and irrelevant information, and the need for a large IT overheads are eliminated. All capital, including IT and information capital, is developed and supported through capital management to produce specific results.

Manage data, knowledge, records, and intelligence as information capital

The managed business 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...]

Today's information systems do not capture and report actual business data

Today's enterprise uses a myriad of management structures and information systems creating enormous information complexity. Each structure and system defines its own set of data entities and reports separate information. Enterprise management information systems attempt to reconcile data and integrate information into meaningful reports for management. But, no system today captures actual business data and no management information system reports actual business management information.

The business must be managed to capture business data and report business management information

21^st century business management organizes the business in order to manage economic output results produced, capital investments implemented, and the utilization of capital to produce results, as complete data sets. The business is organized as one integrated business structure to capture data on the utilization of capital in specific solutions to produce economic outputs in business results. Business data is captured in an integrated Business Information Base to provide access to one complete set of comprehensive business management information.

Data is reported on all results produced, capital invested in solutions, and capital utilized to produce results

Data is captured on capital solution capacity, qualifications, worth, and return; performance capacity utilization, cost, and effectiveness; and the volume, value, and quality of results produced. Strategic results and the solutions needed are maintained in the strategic business structure with plans for time periods and updated strategic estimates. Complete and comprehensive management information is reported on the actual business for effective 21^st century business management and good corporate governance. [more...]

Enterprises today have many problems with information management

Enterprises implement information systems to manage the enterprise, not the business. The many enterprise structures laid over the business require a massive workload in data collection and information processing, and produce a wide range of information concerning various enterprise entities, much of it conflicting and inaccurate. This produces enormous information complexity and excessive IT resources. Enterprises must make additional investments in hardware, information management systems, and IT architectures to attempt to manage the complexity. All the information gathered and reported describes the enterprise. No enterprise today captures actual business data.

Business management captures actual business data and reports information for utilization by the business

21^st century business management organizes information as capital for support and utilization. Actual business data is captured and managed as sets to know value, all costs, capital worth, investment returns, etc. All information is related to the business for utilization to produce results and for control of business information. Enterprise information not related to the business is no longer processed or maintained. All emails, Internet searches and downloads, file transmissions, etc in or out of the business relate to a specific business data entity.

All information is managed as one consistent Business Information Base

All information used by the business is referenced to one of six data sets that control common attributes and subsidiary data entities. The information is organized into one consistent, complete, and accurate Business Information Base. Information systems are reduced to direct system solutions to produce specific results. Large IT resources for enterprise information systems, data reconciliation, enterprise information management, portfolio and hardware management, and special information management systems are no longer needed. [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...]

Many methods and books have addressed the alignment problem, but the problem remains unsolvable

The 20^th century enterprise has contrived many methods and spent enormous sums to solve the alignment problem inherent in aligning performance with performance. Even after all this, the unsolvable alignment problem remains. In an early Article, we identified alignment as one of The Top Ten Problems with 20^th Century Management.

The alignment problem can be solved only by organizing the business to align capital utilized in performance with the result produced

The solution to the alignment problem is very simple. Follow the first rule of 21^st Century Management; organize and manage the business. Result-performance Management (R-pM) organizes the business in economic output results produced, investments in capital solutions to produce results, and the deployment, alignment, integration, and utilization of specific solutions to produce specific results. Capital solutions utilized to produce the same result are aligned. [more...]

Capital solutions are not implemented today to produce specific benefits

Your enterprise likely has implemented information systems or major capital solutions. Were the benefits or return based on a quantified list of specific benefits and not just estimates of increased sales or revenues? Did users have goals to achieve the return on the investment? Were change management problems or resistance prevented by professionally-managed implementation of human and other solutions? Was professional support for all new or changed solutions established as the routine? Was the investment planning and capital development professionally managed? Were consultants utilized to achieve the return on the investment? Was the return on investment managed and measured?

20^th century management does not enable capital management and measured return on capital investments

If you can answer yes, your enterprise is a rare exception. 20^th century management has many inherent obstacles to overcome to implement new solutions to produce managed value-added to provide an measured return. The enterprise must organize and manage the business first, in order to manage change and improvement to the business effectively. Otherwise the enterprise will continue to implement new solutions to produce old problems.

R-pM organizes the business to implement specific capital solutions to add value to business result produced

The prior article showed how to design packaged solutions that any enterprise can use. In order to produce planned business benefits and gain the return, the business must be organized and managed using Result-performance Management (R-pM). Results must be defined to plan and manage value-added by implemented solutions. Capital solutions must be organized for professional support. Specific solutions required must be integrated and utilized in performance to produce specific results. The return on investment comes from added result value-added over the payback period compared to result value-added with no improvement. [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...]