Reduce Corporate Information Technology Overheads and Investments
The typical corporation has enormous IT overheads, but still has no system to manage the business
The typical corporation spends enormous sums on Information Technology and has a large IT overhead with many complex information systems. But with all this, the corporation still does not have the one information system really needed to manage the actual business. Information systems lay additional structures over the business or manage other structures laid over the business. This produces enormous business and information complexity. Corporations invest in additional systems for data reconciliation and information management, rather than simplifying information to one consistent set that reports the actual business.
The corporation has much capital administered as Information Technology 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. There are no unifying business entities to be referenced to control all information in, entering, or leaving the enterprise, including emails, Internet downloads, and file transmissions.
Result-performance Management (R-pM) manages the business as one integrated information system
Result-performance Management (R-pM) uses IT to manage the actual business as one simplified Result-performance Management System. R-pM manages other simplified application programs as performance solutions integrated with the business process, where needed, to produce a specific result.
R-pM eliminates overlaid 20th century business information systems and the need for a large IT overhead. Information technology capital, support, and capabilities are no longer managed separately as “Information Technology”, but are integrated as part of normal capital management. R-pM references all information to the actual business and integrates all information as capital in one Business Information Base to produce data, knowledge, record, and intelligence solutions needed to produce specific business results.
R-pM enables simplified information systems, integrated capital management, and integrated information capital solutions
Result-performance Management eliminates the Corporate IT Empire and the complex information systems laid over the business by organizing and managing the actual business with one simplified system, by simplifying applications to produce specific results, and by properly managing information technology and capital as capital.
IT capital is organized with similar business, facility, and management capital to be managed by professionals. IT systems needed by the business are integrated with the business process to produce specific results. One set of complete, consistent, and accurate management information is reported against the actual current and strategic business, including measured performance costs, result value and value-added, capital worth, and return on capital investments that cannot be measured today.
IT systems and overheads not needed for the business are eliminated. New IT investments are restricted to Result-performance Management Systems to manage actual business results. IT expenditures and investments are reduced dramatically to only those needed to support and manage the actual business.
Learn more in the article “IT Empires and Systems that do not manage the actual Business“, which explains the problems with 20th century information systems and the administration of high-worth enterprise capital as “information technology”.
