New Paradigm 21C (eBook)

Unlocking the Future of Capitalism in the 21st Century

Arthur Piccolo (Autor)

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2021 | 1. Auflage
170 Seiten
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978-1-0983-4005-6 (ISBN)

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What is a company ? Could there be a more obvious questionthat does not require an answer it is so obvious. Wrong ! In fact just the opposite. By reducing the definition of any and all companies through all of history and that applyequally any place else in the universe in which companies and what we call business exists begin with the simplestand most basic definition possible and what you do isexpose wondrous opportunities and understanding that will redefine how we analyze and structure existing companies and even more companies yet to be. Evenmore all our organizations including government. Starting with core definitions reduced to their simplestform regardless of the subject are the place to start touncover truths and the potentials that exist within them. The fact that we so readily accept both consciously and as much unconsciously various conventions as necessaryrealities are often basic flaws that undermine our potential. "e;New Paradigm 21C"e; proves in a very important way that truth often lies hidden in basic definitions, and in the case of companies and business and the future of Capitalism in the 21st centuryvery much so as you will read in these pages. If you are ready to change our world for the better read on.

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CHAPTER 8

Right Here Right Now

Let’s build 21C right now. Right here right now. And begin this evolving revolution. How often do you get to do that ? Create a revolution !

My redundancy in stating over and over again that a company is nothing but its product or service and its customers is very purposeful. It is impossible to be too appreciative of this fact. And this fact as obvious as it is changes the world when understood in its proper overwhelming paradigm changing context not just as a casual throw away observation.

That infinitely simple formula from chapter 1:

Co = P/S + Cu

Putting the statement in this way gives it more heft a sense of significance it may not have by stating in words a company is nothing more than its product or service and its customers. What the formula and statement also do if not as obviously is make a mockery of the countless thousands of books, recommendations and theories for managing a company for superior results by a certain type of leadership or corporate culture or reward system. They are all irrelevant the ones that even deserve anything more than the garbage pail unless they support the fact that a company is nothing more than its product or service and its customers. Because that is the reality they are addressing or failing to do so.

Your management style is far from relevant in this context. Whether or not your employees love you is largely irrelevant. It may all have great value in other aspects of life but in terms of something called a company whose purpose is to produce a product or service that a customer wants to buy its value is very subservient to the basic mandate that propels any company. All these other business books and management theories do is confuse the real issue that we cannot afford to ignore any longer.

All the qualities the best companies foster today and with management that is innovative, and all the books that make the case for one style or approach toward company management and operation or another are secondary manifestations of what 21C is at core and will be far better understood as examples of 21C and its view of reality.

These other values are useful if understood and utilized in the context of the dynamics of 21C. Even more much more 21C is a theory that the greatest satisfaction and value will be realized by seeking the best fit between each individual and the company(s) to which they have a relationship. Not trying to force value and satisfaction into an inflexible outdated type of business relationship. Pre-ordained job descriptions.

An expensive consultant may tell you having soft colors on your walls will produce happier employees. Who cares all I want to know is if you can prove it produces a better or more economical product or service that will result in more customers and greater income. If it can be proven fabulous if not stop wasting time and money. Even more if you can completely automate your company because it is cheaper and better for producing your product or service to have nothing but robotic equipment on your factory floor and never think about the color of walls even better.

If this sounds harsh I am only being rhetorically and theatrical to make a point. Core concepts define reality not more superficial methods trying to create an impact that is not real. There is a brutality to the workplace made worse by a disappearing workforce. 21C is the means to successfully positively deal with the environment as it exists and is evolving.

The fact is whatever your product or service if you could produce it by carrying around nothing but a magical black box the customer could not care less, it is the product or service she or he needs at a price and a quality they want. All your management theories mean nothing to your customers or to your investors buying your stock or making a direct investment.

There are only two developments in the history of business that compare with what is presented as 21C in the coming pages. They are dual entry bookkeeping and Frederick Taylor’s time and motion studies (regardless of whether or not his f-numbers were flawed). It took dual entry book keeping – which is credited to the Italian Luca Pacioli writing a book about the new technique in 1494 - to have a system so that both managers and investors even in primitive companies back in the 1500s could know if fact any company was making money and even more analyze its financial prospects for the future more precisely in factual ways.

Frederick Taylor is responsible for another obvious but all important development. That it made all the sense in the world to organize a business based on jobs that had specific responsibilities that resulted in a company far more efficient and profitable than it would be otherwise. Neither of these developments depended at all on the kind of matters now presented as management or business theories. Both are simplicity itself but all powerful. In my view Luca Pacioli and Frederick Taylor with their very simple but all powerful systems have created the two greatest paradigm shifts in business and company history. 21C will do as much if not in fact more. 21C is more robust in that I am proposing it has far wider consequences than the other two. For our entire society.

So again what is 21C in a form that gives it the practical value to change the world of business and our lives. It understands companies in a coherent comprehensive all inclusive consistent logical way applicable to every company in a common way, and it then visualizes companies in a way necessary to understand them that cannot be done in any other way. In its most useful form it will be a highly advanced computerized process but the concept does not dependent on utilizing the computerized process. But the software proposed here makes 21C a very practical powerful tool.

So how do we begin employing 21C ?

By “tagging” every single identifiable element that is the company. We break any company into the smallest components that we can usefully place a cost factor on and in doing so we validate our success in that all the tags should add up to the entire budget of the company being examined. We can extend the model by assigning revenue and profit to each tag but to the extent that is far more subjective it is not essential to the methodology of 21C.

So how do we do the tagging in a practical way. Obviously it is simpler with a more basic company but the reality is more complex companies will already have detailed data fields that can more or less easily be transferred to this process. We can mine that data in ways never done before. Mine that data in a way that leaves behind all the current so called data mining techniques which are often as subjective as the latest “greatest“ management book. Go far deeper into this mine with 21C.

Practically it begins with a spreadsheet format not unlike a typical financial spreadsheet but which captures large categories of information such as labor costs as one combined figure. To use labor as an important pivotal example it must be broken down in many parts that will translate into the 3 dimensional graphic representation of the company that is at the heart of visualizing 21C. Tagging either individual employees or more likely in large companies like Intel small groups of employees who have common responsibilities as one “tag“ in our 21C visualization of the company. But which can easily be examined in more detail down to the individual by simply manipulating the information on the screen.

Labor costs consists of full time and part time employees, individual private contractors, consultants, special assignment individuals and any other aspects of human labor that make up the company and its budget. One wrinkle will be interns possibly volunteers but even they have a cost factor. Labor may consist of a large number of different job types and labor is assigned to one facility or another or more than one. Each defining characteristic leads to a separately identifiable tag. Tags and more tags.

So while in the traditional financials a company normally produces, labor will be one figure, and also some labor figures will not appear as labor at all but as various contract costs that in 21C need to be broken open and labor identified. The key to 21C is that we “tag“ everyone and everything that makes up the company that is in any way worth identifying. And not simply identify but tag in ways that express the richness of that tag within the overall company and in relation to their “tags.“ A network of tags.

The computerized analysis and the 3D visualizations that result will give managers and investors a powerful view of the company, another all important way of understanding the company that was never available before. Once available it will mean that any and all companies will be judged and will evolve and self-evolve in ways never possible before.

The result will be more efficient more effective business units than have ever existed before and identifying new forms of business organization that never existed before. You can compare 21C in a casual non-specific but illustrative way to doing autopsies on humans or dissections on animals. Before society had the fuller view of what organisms are and our human development processes, the understanding of health and disease in was stymied until we fully “tagged” humans and other creatures.

Let me describe the process in another very...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.1.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• ISBN-10: 1-0983-4005-1 / 1098340051
• ISBN-13: 978-1-0983-4005-6 / 9781098340056