Effective Management Models

A tool for:

Analysis

Planning

Implementation

Management

Needs

Frameworks create the tools necessary to analyze your business most powerfully so that your planned changes have the effect you intend them to have.

Frameworks provide a normative model that completely and concisely represents your organization and gives you the information you need to make the correct business decisions.

Frameworks determine the intellectual structure by which an enterprise affects its business plans. The Framework gives opportunities to change activities within a business. A toolset that will provide timely information to you, as you need it…now and in the future.

Frameworks can analyze your business thoroughly and in a structured way to make informed and well-prepared decisions about the strategic direction of your business. Benefits It focuses on business issues rather than technological issues.

The Framework helps ensure that the information systems and the business processes reflect the management’s priorities.

Benefits

Provides an objective framework based on a normative model rather than individual’s perceptions. Frameworks provide an objective subject for the analysis that is largely independent of both current systems and organizational biases.

Reduces demands on valuable personnel. Interviews are only needed to validate and modify the normative model and so require less time and manpower than other approaches.

Improves communication. Frameworks model the enterprise in terms of management processes so it can be readily understood and used by executives. Because it focuses on business requirements a deep understanding of information systems technologies is not needed.

Frameworks allow you to examine what and through whom information travels within your organization. By understanding your information needs as well as the structure into which they must fit. It lets you identify critical information paths, as well as any “bottlenecks” or “hot spots” that may be affecting your business.

Assists your business plan. Frameworks allow you to align your business planning with your business strategies.

Description

The fundamental concept embodied in Frameworks is that a normative model, based on general management theory, can be used to describe the activities and information flows that do (or should) exist in any enterprise. The normative model can then be tailored to describe the enterprise’s unique characteristics.

Because Frameworks model the enterprise in terms of management processes, it can be readily understood and used by executives. Frameworks also provide an information flow model that helps translate the business model into a form meaningful to information systems.

Completeness

The Framework provides a complete list of functional areas, functions, and activities that constitute your enterprise. It allows for strategic, tactical, and control issues as well as operational issues and considers:

The markets your enterprise is in.
The products and services delivered.
Resources used.
Expectations for the results of the work done.

The Framework considers all of the above and provides lists of functions or activities necessary to support your business.

Appropriateness

The model is a reasonable and useful way to understand your enterprise. It is expressed in terms acceptable to the management and so is descriptive and uses the terminology of your enterprise.

Permanence

The Framework is independent of the organization and should survive management changes and re-organization.

Assists in decision making

Business decisions can be made quickly and accurately utilizing the information structure provided. Frameworks ensure you have detailed company knowledge at your fingertips in a constantly changing business environment with continual advances in new technology.

Helps analyze and tune your information

The flow of information is the heart of any business. The key people must get the information, but when they get it can be of critical importance.

Provides tools for ease of analysis

Key personnel do not have the time to analyze the structure and processes of their organization from the “grassroots” level. Frameworks provide the “tools” which give an accurate representation for the business decision-maker.

Summary

Creates: A “tool” for your business to analyze and integrate information.

A structured viewpoint through an objective working model of your enterprise.

A consistent analysis by using the normative approach so all aspects of your business remain consistent in their structure and detail.

Using: A set of structured and closed-form questions to build its models. Data gathering is over a short time frame creating minimum disruption.

The Frameworks process has been applied in many different areas and industries at all levels of organizations.