How to eliminate business complexity and continue to prevent business complexity
Submitted by bcfc on September 5th, 2008
Some enterprises take pride in their business complexity
When you talk to a company manager about employing a standard solution the response is often “Our business is too complex for a standard solution”. This is said with a measure of pride in being associated with a complex business. Is a complex business something to strive for or to be proud of? What is the alternative to a standard solution? Do non-standard solutions simplify the business? What is better, simplify the business to use standard solutions, or continue to develop non-standard solutions that compound existing complexity?
Result-performance Management organizes only the business essentials to eliminate business complexity
Enterprises today introduce business complexity as soon a they create an organization structure that is laid over the business. They then lay more structures for strategy, accounts, business processes, performance management, etc over the business. Each overlay introduces more entities with conflicting definitions to be managed and increases business and information complexity.
Result-performance Management (R-pM) clears away contrived overlaid structures and organizes the business for 21st Century Management. All business organization, planning, direction, control, reporting, and governance employs the current and strategic business structures and only the essential business data entities.
Business complexity is accepted as normal in today’s enterprise
Business complexity is built in to 20th century management methods, so business complexity is accepted as normal. We have no straightforward method to identify and root out business complexity and then to prevent future business complexity. [more...].
