Managing Business Change to an Unmanaged Business
To manage business change, you must manage the business
Today’s corporations and other enterprises find business change hard to manage, for many reasons, mainly that to manage business change, the enterprise must first organize and manage the business. The business changes with every management decision to produce a new or changed result or to utilize new or changed performance solutions. If the business was organized, the business organization would change automatically to keep the business organized. “Business change” does not wait until every few years, when management decides it is time for “business change”.
The 20th century enterprise does not manage the business
The 20th century enterprise does not organize and manage the business, which dictionaries define as the activity of providing goods and services. Instead the enterprise overlays a contrived organization structure on the business, and then overlays contrived management structures for business process, strategy, accounts, performance management, etc. Each overlaid structure has different information entities and must be separately managed.
The 20th century enterprise cannot manage the unorganized business to change with real business change and avoid upheaval, but waits until the problems of the unorganized business build to change overlaid structures through business change projects. “Business change” projects do not change the business. “Business change” projects change the organization and management structures overlaid on the business to align them closer to the actual business.
21st Century Management manages the business to manage change to the business
Result-performance Management (R-pM) organizes the business for 21st century management. The objective of Result-performance Management (R-pM) is to organize the enterprise business, “the activity of providing goods and services”, for 21st century management. R-pm organizes the activity as performance and the goods and services as results. R-pM then can manage the activity of providing goods and services and changes to the activity or changes to goods and services.
Download business change guidance and your 21st Century Management Manual today
Download “How to Manage Business Change” to take the mystery out of business change and “How to Manage Projects in the 21st Century” to manage the business change project properly, at result-performance-management.com. For the additional details about R-pM, your 21st Century Management Manual, download The R-pM Toolkit, which is available today and is under continual development to expand and refine 21st Century Management.
