Rule No 10: Employ 21^st Century Management conventions and standards

20^th century management does not employ consistent conventions, definitions, and standards

A different set of conventions, definitions, and standards is used for each of the many structures laid over the business. The many 20^th century management books contain different conventions, definitions, and standards. The many different business processes, information systems, IT architectures, costing and accounting, performance reporting, and administration structures each have their own set. The enterprise employs a wide variety of conventions, definitions, and standards to manage the enterprise, rather than one limited and consistent set to manage the business.

20^th century management does not support common solutions, collaboration, or measurement across enterprises

The lack of consistent conventions, definitions, and standards prevents business collaboration and integration, common solutions that any enterprise can use, business measurement for comparison across enterprises, common learning that can be applied to any business, educated and trained personnel that can fit into any business, and other long-unfulfilled business needs.

Rule No 10: Employ 21^st Century Management conventions and standards

Rule No. 10 of 21^st Century Management eliminates the problems of conflicting and confusing business conventions, definitions, and standards by providing one set related to directly organizing and managing the actual business. Terminology that is not related to the actual business and conventions and standards established to maintain structures laid over the business are not continued.

21^st Century Management provides one set of consistent conventions, definitions, and standards for the actual business

21^st Century Management conventions, definitions, and standards are related directly to managing the business. The conventions, definitions, and standards will evolve into a consistent set as 21^st Century Management is put in to practice in more and more enterprises. Many 21st Century Management conventions, definitions, and standards are explained in articles here in 21^st Century Management Magazine. The ten rules of 21^st Century Management are the foundation for 21^st Century Management conventions. The official set of 21st Century Management conventions, definitions, and standards is being maintained in The R-pM Toolkit.

21^st Century Management enables consistent learning, applications, solutions, and services

21^st Century Management provides a consistent set of conventions, definitions, and standards that are employed in Result-performance Management and can be used for 21st Century Management education, training, solution development, and service development. Personnel educated in 21^st Century Management can work seamlessly in any enterprise that uses R-pM to organize and manage the business. Solutions and services developed following 21^st Century Management conventions and standards can be applied to any enterprise that uses R-pM. As the use of R-pM for 21^st Century Management expands there will be a growing demand for personnel, solutions, and services that support 21st Century Management.

21^st Century Management enables business integration, collaboration, consolidations, and acquisitions

R-pM and 21^st Century Management conventions, definitions, and standards are applied across businesses to provide a structure for measuring and understanding the business. Business operations are comparable among enterprises so that performance can be benchmarked and businesses can collaborate to meet understood result requirements and solution specifications. Capital development is comparable among enterprise, so that contractors can work with the enterprise easily. Business reorganizations and consolidations are facilitated within a common business structure.

21^st Century Management conventions, definitions, and standards support natural business organization and common-sense management

Arbitrary and contrived 20^th century management that is contrary to common sense and must be learned and remembered is eliminated. R-pM organizes the natural business to apply common-sense management. 21^st Century Management conventions, definitions, and standards reinforce common-sense and are understood in the business context. Applying common sense will solve most 21^st Century Management problems. 21^st Century Management decisions boil down to results to produce and performance solutions to utilize. Common-sense business management is supported by The R-pM Toolkit and 21st Century Management conventions, definitions, and standards. Subscribe to the R-pM Toolkit through 2009 at result-performance-management.com.