The Ten Rules of 21st Century Business Management
Over the past three months, the Business Change Forum published a series of articles on the “Ten Rules to Organize the Business for 21st Century Management” to guide business organization for competitive 21st century business management.
The ten rules of 21st century business management are:
- Organize and manage the business
- Generate revenues from a chain of known value and quality
- Organize and manage capital for high utilization and return
- Keep accurate financial and non-financial records on the full business cycle in operations and development
- Operate to optimize operations, result value-added, and the profit result
- Plan and govern the transition from today’s value to approved strategic value
- Manage all capital investments to gain a planned return through results
- Manage human personnel, capability, and knowledge capital to increase human worth
- Collaborate to maximize shared value and minimize shared costs
- Employ 21st century business management conventions and standards
The ten rules are described in the linked article and under the forum “Ten Rules for Business Management”. None of these rules can be put into practice using obsolete 20th century enterprise management. The fundamental starting point is Rule No. 1 “Organize and manage the business.”
21st Century Business Management eliminates 20th century problems
The precise definition of the business is “investments in capital as solutions of worth utilized for costs and effectiveness of performance to produce value and quality in results”. 21st century business management provides the means to directly organize and manage the actual business to capture data on the business and provide one set of complete, consistent, and accurate business management information that is unknown to management today. Organizing the business as one current to strategic business structure eliminates all the arbitrary structures laid over the business today to directly organize, plan, direct, control, report, and govern the business. Today’s unsolvable business problems such as reorganizations, alignment, investment management, cost and value management, human and other capital utilization and worth management, actual business management information, and on and on are eliminated forever.
Result-performance Management (R-pM) provides the knowledge for actual business management
Result-performance Management (R-pM) is the only source of knowledge and expertise on how to manage the actual business. Forward-looking enterprises are now using R-pM guidance to organize and manage their business to gain breakthrough advantages over competitors burdened by unsolvable 20th century management problems. Business management is explained and documented in the Business Management Toolkit. The Toolkit provides procedures for actual business management and maintains emerging 21st century management conventions, definitions, and standards. Management consultants who base 21st century business management services on R-pM knowledge are licensed to help enterprises learn, organize, and manage the actual business. Business management knowledge and the Business Management Toolkit are available and supported today at result-performance-management.com.
The Solution to the Economic Crisis is explained in free downloads
Three free white papers explain the dead-end 20th century management problems, such as the failure to plan, account for, and manage the actual business, that caused the economic crisis, the way to eliminate the problems, and a government program to address the crisis by stimulating the economy, solving the problems, building a structure for financial and economic management, and organizing local businesses to flourish in the eventual recovery.
- How to Eliminate Problems that caused the Economic Crisis explains the major unsolvable 20th century management problems and the solution to eliminate the problems
- Business management; the only Solution to the Economic Crisis explains how to plan and manage the business to capture business data and provide management the information needed for actual business, corporation, industry, and economic management
- A Government Business Management Program to Answer the Economic Crisis outlines a government program to encourage business management, stimulate the economy, restore confidence, organize businesses to flourish in the recovery, and manage economic cycles to prevent future crisis
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