Management.Reference:1 - The work this Suite serves

Management concerns choosing and sustaining the direction, commitments and provision of a collective undertaking, and changing them when the results or conditions warrant it. The undertaking may be a company, public service, professional practice, temporary collaboration or voluntary community. Its participants can have different purposes and decision rights. A shared employer is unnecessary; an actual basis for making and relying on a contribution is necessary.

Use this Suite when a worthwhile direction, an accepted promise, available means and ongoing work do not yet fit together. It helps obtain a supported commitment and its workable continuation: what can be done, for whom, by which contributions, with which authority and resources, and what must be reconsidered if a consequential condition changes. Retaining a sufficient arrangement, narrowing a promise or declining it can be useful results.

When an organization or another established system is the target, management’s engineering contribution concerns that system: practitioners arrange and change the Work, authority, resources and commitments through which it can function. A changed allocation that establishes effective access or a new work commitment changes the system’s state even if its organization chart remains the same. A voluntary community or temporary collaboration requires its own account of the system and whole, if any, that is being changed. System-level design, realization and qualification therefore remain relevant to ongoing management as well as to reorganization. OCE develops the deliberate construction of organizational relations and capability; it does not replace the other management fields or make every management use an OCE project. This organizational specialization is described by the Management Suite. The broader Engineering edition connects to it without repeating OCE in its direct roster.

The intended readers are people and capable assisting agents who make, support or examine management decisions. Relevant professional knowledge and powers remain necessary for the acts that require them. A practitioner can obtain a specialist result instead of learning to produce it. Follow Using FPF (Using FPF and its DPF Suites) to find the needed contribution and read its full pattern, including its conditions and worked cases.