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Information For Wealth Creation - Drucker. “Enterprises are paid to create wealth not control costs” Wealth creation requires four types of information: Foundation Information Productivity Information Competence Information Resource Allocation Information.
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Information For Wealth Creation - Drucker • “Enterprises are paid to create wealth not control costs” • Wealth creation requires four types of information: • Foundation Information • Productivity Information • Competence Information • Resource Allocation Information
Information For Wealth Creation - Drucker • Foundation Information: • Cash Flow, liquidity projections, inventory levels, account receivables • When normal, don’t tell us much • When abnormal they represent a problem that needs fixing
Information For Wealth Creation - Drucker • Productivity Information: • Deals with productivity of key resources • Need data on total factor productivity eg Benchmarking and Economic Value Added Analysis (EVA)
Information For Wealth Creation - Drucker • “Enterprises are paid to create wealth not control costs” • Wealth creation requires four types of information: • Foundation Information • Productivity Information • Competence Information • Resource Allocation Information
Information For Wealth Creation - Drucker • Foundation Information: • Cash Flow, liquidity projections, inventory levels, account receivables • When normal, don’t tell us much • When abnormal they represent a problem that needs fixing
Information For Wealth Creation - Drucker • Competence Information: • Core competencies of a company • Must keep track of orgs. and competitors’ performance – helps identify competencies • Core competencies are different for each company, but every org. should be competent in Innovation CORE
Information For Wealth Creation - Drucker • Resource Allocation Information: • Allocation of Scarce Resources: Capital and People • Capital appropriations process: ROI, DPV, Cash Flow, Payback – use all 4 • Need to ask what will happen if project fails/succeeds and the reprecussions
Information For Wealth Creation - Drucker • Resource Allocation Information: • Performing people one of the scarcest resources • Human resources need to be allocated as purposefully and thoughfully as Capital
Information For Wealth Creation - Drucker • “Enterprises are paid to create wealth not control costs” • Wealth creation requires four types of information: • Foundation Information • Productivity Information • Competence Information • Resource Allocation Information
Information For Wealth Creation - Drucker • Foundation Information: • Cash Flow, liquidity projections, inventory levels, account receivables • When normal, don’t tell us much • When abnormal they represent a problem that needs fixing
Information For Wealth Creation - Drucker • Productivity Information: • Deals with productivity of key resources • Need data on total factor productivity eg Benchmarking and Economic Value Added Analysis (EVA)
Information For Wealth Creation - Drucker • Competence Information: • Core competencies of a company • Must keep track of orgs. and competitors’ performance – helps identify competencies • Core competencies are different for each company, but every org. should be competent in Innovation CORE
Information For Wealth Creation - Drucker • Resource Allocation Information: • Allocation of Scarce Resources: Capital and People • Capital appropriations process: ROI, DPV, Cash Flow, Payback – use all 4 • Need to ask what will happen if project fails/succeeds and the reprecussions
Information For Wealth Creation - Drucker • Resource Allocation Information: • Performing people one of the scarcest resources • Human resources need to be allocated as purposefully and thoughfully as Capital
Information For Wealth Creation - Drucker • Where the Results are: • The 4 kinds of information tell us about the current business. They inform and direct tactics • Strategy needs info. about the environment • “Inside the organisation there are only cost centres. The only profit centre is a customer whose check hasn’t bounced”
Information Executives Need for Their Work - Drucker • To produce the info they need, executives have to ask: • What info do I owe others? • What info do I need from others? Information
Information Executives Need for Their Work - Drucker • They have to: • Organise their information • Have no surprises • Go outside the org. for information
Decisions and actions which affect pricing • Decisions and actions which affect volume • Decisions and actions which affect overhead orstructural cost • Decision and actions which affect product or service cost • Decisions and actions which affect asset turnover (Ward Fredericks)