Future Management Challenges

Management of any organization or enterprise today requires great nimbleness, ability to quickly, hopefully in real time, respond to any kind of change, effective use of up-to-date information and communication systems, not just to relate internal information between management and decision making workers and staff, as well as within staff and workers, and between managers but also between all existing and future market/client segments and both management and workers/staff. Similarly, reliable communications must be established between existing and future technology and methodology developers and both management as well as workers/ staff of an organization or enterprise.

It is very important to transform internal management in organizations and enterprises into electronically controlled systems where all paperwork and much of the typical verbal communications relating to the work or tasks to be performed are communicated and reported and recorded electronically and not just through human intermediaries such as with use of typical middle management structures. Furthermore, it should always be direct and in the most convenient and appropriate physical, measurement, and other format for both the sender and receiver, and if possible in the input form and format required by the decision of action itself. This requires a change in the way we look at and structure operational management. The major changes, as noted, are the delegation of decision making responsibilities to the lowest or most direct competent task level to the person most directly involved in the decision or task.