The "Academic Approach" in incremental improvement to accepted methods prevents new breakthroughs
The academic approach dictates incremental improvement and prevent breakthrough thinking and innovations
Business management methods are devised using the “academic approach” that accepts the solutions in place and the existing body of knowledge as the basis and seeks to make improvements. The academic approach may produce incremental improvements, but it also prevents new management thinking and breakthroughs. New business management methods build on old methods. New business management books and articles must be substantiated as accurate by footnoting previously published works and referencing existing methods in use.
There are many fundamental problems with traditional organization and management methods that cannot be changed by traditional change methods
What if the body of knowledge in the “published record” is inaccurate or if basic management methods in use are flawed? The academic approach then propagates inaccuracies and flaws. The Business Change Forum contains hundreds of examples where today’s 20th century organization and management methods, principles, structures and definitions are flawed and inaccurate. So, new methods build on flawed old methods. New books repeat old inaccuracies.
The Business Change Forum discusses unsolvable 20th century management problems that have never been solved despite thousands and books and methods based on the academic approach to management improvement. We keep abreast of new business methods and business management books. Sometimes a new method name or promotion will indicate the possibility of something new. In checking further, it is simply new packaging and terminology for traditional methods.
Management improvement books build on what has already been written
Whenever a book is filled with lots of notes, bibliographies, and indexes, you know that someone is repeating things that have already been published. Other books proclaim innovations that are innovative ways of coping with 20th century management problems. We know that publishers will not print business management books that describe a completely new way to organize and manage the business. Publishers substantiate works as “accurate” by ensuring that new ideas and innovations reference existing thinking and methods.
We accept the way things have always been done and have never analyzed business fundamentals
Since the start of business no one has ever stepped back and asked — what is the most fundamentally sound way to organize and manage the enterprise. Conventional thinking says the best management methods are those that are generally-accepted. Conventional wisdom has us do things because it is what everybody else is doing. We can only find a better way if we break through the barriers of the academic approach, traditional methods, and conventional thinking and wisdom.
The corporation can gain enormously by actually organizing and managing the business
These obstacles should not prevent us from coming up with new breakthroughs and introducing and accepting fundamentally good management to improve the economic use of what we have and create value for the stakeholders in our enterprises and economies. It is not that hard. All we have to do is define, organize, and manage the actual business of the enterprise. We have defined the business as “investments in capital as solutions of worth utilized for costs and effectiveness of performance to produce value and quality in results”.
However, we can never organize and manage the business using the academic approach. We must replace traditional methods with new methods and old conventional thinking with new conventional thinking.
Result-performance Management (R-pM) provides breakthrough thinking and innovation to organize and manage the actual business
Now, there is Result-performance Management (R-pM). R-pM shows the breakthrough method to organize and manage the three components of the business: the economic outputs in results, capital investments available as solutions, and the utilization of a specific solution in performance to produce a specific result. Stop organizing people and business units. People are specific human capital solutions and units are business organization capital solutions deployed to produce specific results.
21st Century Management eliminates 20th century management problems
Result-performance Management (R-pM) goes beyond conventional thinking to eliminate costly 20th century management problems by organizing the actual business for 21st century management. Slash overheads and costs, simplify business management, and boost competitive advantage through R-pM, the conventional method for 21st Century Management.
The R-pM Toolkit, is available today and is under continual development to expand and refine 21st Century Management. The R-pM Toolkit is offered at a nominal price to encourage wide use of R-pM. Subscribe to The R-pM Toolkit, including free future updates, at result-performance-management.com. See if you can break through the barriers of the academic approach, traditional methods, and conventional thinking.
