Enterprises today are organized and managed using many structures

Throughout the 20^th century, we have implemented organization, process, account, performance management, and other structures. These many structures, and the different entities used, produce business and information complexity and many other problems. There has long been recognition of the problems. Many books have been written and additional management structures have been devised, but the problems remain.

Enterprises and management developers have been looking for one integrating structure

There are many efforts to replace these structures with one simple and consistently-defined structure for business collaboration, reliable management information, use of common solutions, and other needs. Until now, no one has defined the one integrated structure that can be used to organize and manage any enterprise in any industry. Each new structure is laid over existing structures compounding the problems.

The one integrating structure exists; it is the business itself

There is one structure. It has been there all along! That structure is the business itself!

The enterprise business is defined as “the utilization of capital of worth in performance to incur costs and produce value in results”. The business consists of three components:

• Business results produced as economic outputs of value from the business
• Capital in the specific performance solutions invested in the business
• Performance in the utilization of performance solutions to produce results

These components of the business are organized into the current and strategic business structures that replace all structures laid over the business for transparent management of strategic result value creation.

R-pM provides the only method to organize and manage the actual business

Today's unsolvable business problems are caused by conflicts between the actual business and structures laid over the business. Result-performance Management (R-pM) organizes the business, as current and strategic structures, for 21^st century management. R-pM replaces all overlaid structures with the appropriate business structure and leaves unsolvable 20^th century problems behind [more...]

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...]

Enterprises today do not know costs or worth of all capital utilized

Enterprises may capture some known costs for some known capital items like fixed assets or employees. But many capital items and costs remain unknown. Development costs may be captured for some other big-ticket capital items. In this case, costs usually include costs for other undefined solutions developed in the same project. Capital worth may be assessed for some tangible items, but cannot be done for all capital to know actual enterprise net worth.

Capital costs and worth are an integral part of the business and actual business management

The enterprise business consists of output results produced, capital deployed to be utilized for the result, and performance in the utilization of capital to incur costs and produce value in results. When the business is managed, results value and quality are managed, capital worth and investment returns are managed, and performance costs and effectiveness contributing to result value-added are managed. Results and capital are managed in result-capital development to plan and manage the result value-added to cover capital development costs and provide the return on investment.

R-pM is the only way to capture capital and performance costs and assess capital worth

Result-performance Management (R-pM) is the only way to organize and manage the actual business. All capital is managed to eliminate intangible assets, unknown costs, unknown capital and enterprise business worth, and unknown return on investments. Human and other capital is managed to control costs, invest only in capital needed, develop capital to create value, and maintain and increase capital worth [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...]

20^th century business change does not change the business

20^th century "business change" cannot change the actual business, because the business is not organized or managed. 20^th century business change is change to contrived organization and management structures laid over the business. Contrived structures conflict with the actual business creating unsolvable problems that can never be solved by new or improved 20^th century structures. So, 20^th century business change propagates unsolvable problems. Any benefit from change is from incidental improvements made rather than managed project benefits.

R-pM provides an alternative to dead-end 20^th century management

Result-performance Management (R-pM) provides a new 21^st century alternative to 20^th century business change. R-pM organizes and manage the actual business in capital available to the business, output results expected from the business, and performance to utilize capital as performance solutions to produce results. Now, with R-pM, enterprises no longer need to continue costly 20^th century business change. Enterprises can gain real competitive advantage through actual business change with R-pM. Any business change project can be redefined to organize and manage the actual business and put the enterprise on the road to complete 21^st Century Management.

R-pM manages business change projects to change and manage the actual business

R-pM can be used for a business change application as a means of introducing R-pM to the enterprise. R-pM can be used to analyze the change, organize the part of the business involved, and manage the change project. R-pM applications are supported by the R-pM Toolkit, your 21^st Century Management Manual. Eventually, R-pM can be used to organize the complete enterprise business for 21^st Century Management, and completely eliminate unsolvable 20^th century management problems [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...]

No enterprise manager today makes actual business decisions

Managers today lack the business context, business management information, and the actual business management experience needed to make decisions on business organization and management. Any actual business decision could never be implemented because the business is not defined or organized.

All managers make enterprise management decisions to change structures laid over the business

Enterprises today use 20^th century management to manage the enterprise with structures laid over the business. Management decides on changes to the organization, business process, information system, or other overlaid structure rather than changing the actual business.

R-pM manages and reports the business to provide the context for business decisions

All business decisions are an informed change to a result produced by the business and the capital utilized as performance solutions to produce results. Business decisions are directly implemented to the business to produce a new result or utilize improved solutions. Business decisions are made, reported, and managed in the business context of performance cost and result value change, performance effectiveness producing result quality, result value-added affecting capital worth, actual achievement against result goals, progress to strategic result value, and other business management information not provided by 20^th century management [more...]

Unsolvable 20^th century management problems are caused by structures laid over the business

20^th century management problems are caused by conflicts between the actual business and enterprise organization and management structures laid over the business. 20^th century management “solves” the problems by laying ever more-complicated structures over the business, and adding more information technology overheads to manage the structures.

Dead-end 20^th century management problems can never be solved by laying new structures over the business

For years and years, many management books and expensive solutions have been sold to “solve” 20^th century management problems by new or improved structures laid over the business. But the “solutions” only compounded the problems. 20^th century management is a dead-end. All 20^th century management problems remain unsolved today. All we have done is to make the enterprise more complicated and created a gigantic IT infrastructure that cannot capture actual business data.

Enterprises are now waking up to the problem and using R-pM to organize the business for 21^st Century Management

There is only one solution to the problems with dead-end 20^th century management. Each enterprise must use R-pM to organize the actual business for integrated 21^st Century Management. The enterprises now using R-pM to organize their business will have continuing competitive advantage over enterprise burdened with 20^th century management, and the advantage will continue even after followers start to use R-pM [more...]

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...]

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...]