Concept Management Quarter
Chief Execution Quarter (hereinafter, the Quarter) is the first of four lectures of Operations Quadrivium (hereinafter, the Quadrivium):
- The Quarter is designed to introduce its learners to enterprise discovery, or, in other words, to concepts related to obtaining data needed to administer the enterprise effort; and
- The Quadrivium examines concepts of administering various types of enterprises known as enterprise administration as a whole.
The Quadrivium is the first of seven modules of Septem Artes Administrativi, which is a course designed to introduce its learners to general concepts in business administration, management, and organizational behavior.
Contents
Outline
The predecessor lecture is Business Modeling Quarter.
- Vision statement. A formal articulation of an organization's vision or mission.
- Business plan. A written document that summarizes a business opportunity and defines and articulates how the identified opportunity is to be seized and exploited.
- Learning. Any relatively permanent change in behavior that occurs as a result of experience.
- Policy. A guideline for making decisions.
- Incremental budgeting. Process starting with the current budget from which managers decide whether they need additional resources and the justification for requesting it.
- Idea management.
- Lessons learned. The learning gained from the process of performing the project. Lessons learned may be identified at any point. Also considered a project record.
- Skunk works. A small group within a large organization, given a high degree of autonomy and unhampered by corporate bureaucracy, whose mission is to develop a project primarily for the sake of radical innovation.
- Marketing management.
- Business development.
- Social screening. Approving social criteria (screens) to investment decisions.
- Real goal. A goal that an organization actually pursues, as defined by the actions of its members.
- Stated goal. An official statement of what an organization says, and what it wants its various stakeholders to believe, its goals are.
- Strategic management process. A six-step process that encompasses strategic planning, implementation, and evaluation.
- Strategic management. What managers do to develop the organization's strategies.
- Top manager. A manager at or near the upper levels of the organizational structure who are responsible for making organization-wide decisions and establishing the goals and plans that affect the entire organization.
- Balanced scorecard. A performance measurement tool that looks as more than just the financial perspective.
- Outcome. A key factor that is affected by some other variables.
- Performance. The end result of an activity.
- Management. The process or activity of dealing with or controlling things or people.
- Value chain management. The process of managing the sequence of activities and information along the entire value chain.
The successor lecture is Data Gathering Quarter.