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21st Century Management: Consistent Conventions and Standards

21st Century Management is one consistent set of conventions, standards, and definitions used to organize and manage the business of any enterprise

Result-performance Management (R-pM) is the conventional way to organize the business for 21st Century Management. 21st Century Management manages the current to strategic business in capital, organized as measured performance solutions, to incur costs and create value in outputs, organized as counted and measured results; and manages capital investments in specific solutions to add value to specific results, for measured return.

21st Century Management provides one complete and consistent set of descriptions, conventions, standards, and definitions, so that any enterprise can organize and manage the business, can collaborate with business partners, can integrate with suppliers and customer businesses, and can use common solutions. 21st Century Management provides consistent education and learning to organize and manage any business with R-pM. 21st Century Management eliminates the unsolvable problems inherent in 20th century management.

21st Century Management is documented in the R-pM Toolkit

R-pM and 21st Century Management conventions and standards are documented in the R-pM Toolkit, your 21st Century Management Manual. The R-pM Toolkit is under continuing development. The R-pM Toolkit already contains the fundamental documentation needed to begin learning, implementing, and utilizing R-pM. Those downloading the R-pM Toolkit today receive a subscription to all R-pM Toolkit and 21st Century Management documentation updates through 2009.

21st Century Management documentation includes:

  • 21st Century Management Descriptions: The specific concepts and approaches that constitute 21st Century Management
  • 21st Century Management Conventions: Specific business operation and development rules and methods that are followed by all 21st century businesses
  • 21st Century Management Standards: Specific goals. expectations, and standards to be met in 21st Century Management
  • 21st Century Management Definitions: The terminology and definitions used in 21st Century Management

21st Century Management is under continual development. New 21st Century Management documentation is added to the R-pM Toolkit as developed. 21st Century Management development follows behind R-pM development to document those conventions that are proving particularly successful across the board in practice and to dovetail in on specific standards that should be met.

The 21st Century Management Glossary is included in the current R-pM Toolkit

The first document in 21st Century Management documentation is the 21st Century Management Glossary. The Glossary contains a comprehensive list of terms with the definitions as used in 21st Century Management. Following are some of the basic terms used in 21st Century Management and followed in the development and utilization of R-pM..

  • Business: The utilization of capital of worth in performance solutions to incur costs and produce value in results
  • Business Structure: The organization and relationships of specific results to be produced in the result structure, organization of capital available to be utilized as performance solutions in the capital structure, and the deployment of specific solutions to performance domains to produce specific results in the performance structure
  • Capital: Assets and capabilities invested in the business of worth supported as performance solutions that can be utilized to produce results
  • Capital Structure: The organization of capital as performance solutions by category in the human capabilities required for development and support and by class to be integrated and utilized to produce a result
  • Enterprise: A company, division, subsidiary, government, institution, project or any defined unit that has a set of results to achieve and performance solutions to use and has the authority to make changes
  • Management: The organization, planning, directing, control, and reporting of the current to strategic business using performance solutions to produce results and of solution investments to add value to results
  • Management Domain: The set of performance domains where solutions under the responsibility of one performance manager produce results under the responsibility of one result manager
  • Organization: Structuring of a business as results to be produced and performance solutions to be utilized and deployment of solutions to produce specific results
  • Performance: The utilization of capital as performance solution to meet expectations and incur costs to produce results
  • Performance Domain: The basic building block of the business structure where one solution is utilized to produce one result to establish a record in the performance structure
  • Performance Indicator: Measure of the level of capacity, cost, effectiveness, uncertainty, worth, and other attributes of specific performance solutions continuing over time
  • Performance Management: Responsibility to provide and support qualified solutions that meet expectations in utilization to produce results
  • Performance Solution: An item of capital organized in the capital structure that can be deployed and utilized to produce a specific result
  • Performance Structure: The set of performance solutions deployed to performance domains to produce specific results with rules, exceptions, and transaction controls
  • Result: Economic output from business performance of positive or negative value that can be counted and measured
  • Result Management: Responsibility to utilize performance solutions to produce results and reach result goals
  • Result Metric: Measure of the volume, value, quality, and risk, and other attributes of results produced within a time period
  • Result Structure: The set of results produced by the business organized by value and cost hierarchy, organization management responsibility, and impact and chain relationships

These are examples of basic terms that are consistently utilized by R-pM and 21st Century Management.