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What is Power Measurement?

Power Measurement?

Purpose • The purpose of this document is to describe power measurement.

Power Measurement (PM) • Power measurement is a process that uses relationships to communicate meaning. • For example: – My purpose is power measurement, and I build business models and relational databases for decision making.

PM Process – The PM process takes information and organizes it by purpose to produce a “big picture” view of things. – It could be called business modeling. – It could be called reading for comprehension. – It is a static view. » It is a picture, but not a moving picture.

Strategic Thinking • So, PM could be called strategic thinking, which is like making war from a map. • To support decision makers, I pull information from reports on business functions and organize it by purpose.

PM Product • Information Leverage – Information relationships produce information leverage. – Relational Databases store information relationships

Leverage of Meaning Definitions – The better the things in a picture are understood, the easier it is to imagine movement of, between and around those things.

Multimedia Dictionary – Besides analysis worksheets and reports, the product of power measurement is a multimedia dictionary.

Arenas of Purpose • Arenas of purpose are defined, and the dictionary displays the power of things in those arenas.

Multimedia Dictionary – The better things in an arena are understood, the easier it is to imagine movement in that arena.

Teamwork and Power Measurement • Teamwork is measured by measuring power.

New Tools for PM • Business databases (or systems) support the functions of business. – The problem is they are focused only on the functions they support.

New Tools for PM cont. – To see the big picture, we have three new database types.

Object (Relatively New) • An object oriented database describes and interfaces things. – Like using a Coke machine, objects are described and we interface with them. • Outlook is also an example of an Object database. We describe people, rooms, equipment and schedule meetings between those objects.

Enterprise (Relatively New) • An enterprise database begins to look at the big picture or meaning of things. • But, one meaning is not enough.

The Doctors Clinic Enterprise • Our TDC Enterprise database is an example. We gather the information from functions into a larger picture organized to describe a meaning for those functions.

Production to Cash • For example, we associate production with cash receipts and we use historical rates and factors to make that association more meaningful. • But, one meaning is not enough.

Team (New) – Measuring Teamwork • An enterprise is really many interconnected enterprises or teams.

My Multiple Enterprise Example – For example: I work for Doctors Clinic, but I also work for my boss at the Doctors Clinic and my wife at home. Because I have the enterprise database, I indirectly support other functions. So I am on several teams at several levels: my Home Team, my Corporate Team, my Chain of Command Team and my many Cross Functional Teams. Everybody teams on several levels and these are important teams for the Doctors Clinic.

New Team Members – New team members need to be brought up to speed. • Teams share equipment and floor space. Team members need to know who they are sharing with and why. Teamwork is very important. – But, how do we measure teamwork?

Power Measurement is easy – We can know power without knowing how things work. – Think advertising. • You can understand advertising without knowing how things work. • By advertising, we define products and services.

General Business Definitions – To make PM easy, we define things both down at the difficult technical level and up at the easy General Business Level. • Medical Example – For example: a medical example would be surgery procedures that are the business of the surgery (and not the actual cutting and blood letting) like: analysis and reports to the patient, forecasts, facilitation or setting up the facility and equipment.

Everybody must manage – The business level is a level that everybody needs to know. – Everybody must manage at least one purpose and we should know these terms to do business with people. • When looking at team business, we need to know the difference between a report, a process or a piece of equipment.

Power Potential • Power measurement measures change. – For example: • It defines what goes in and what comes out of a process, Without caring about how that change is accomplished.

Maximize Team Power • As an added benefit, power measurement defines both power potential and actual power usage. – For example: one teammate may be underused another overused. • Knowing this, power measurement helps maximize the team power.

Power Potential and Usage

Teamwork from PM • Power measurement defines the team. – PM defines the things and people associated with a purpose.

PM defines the big picture – (the strategy, the power) so • With PM, sequence and timing will be more obvious to teammates.

PM Example • PM tells you who needs and is using the equipment and why. • PM tells you who share the floor space and what is their share. • PM tells you the difference between facility requirements and actual facilities.

PM Example cont. • PM measures the team power with the players on the floor. • Like purpose comes before process, power measurement comes before practice. • You may be the best shooter on the team, but you may not be the team shooter. • The role you play depends on how the team power comes together.

PM is Multi Dimensional • You can drill down by organization or location to see how the big picture is being interpreted in detail. • You can easily attach a glossary of definitions to a meeting agenda.

PM is a big picture with levels. • Like the Space Needle, the PM Team DB is tall and skinny. – It is tall because there are teams within teams and entities within entities. • A Tall Tree of Definitions – You can move up and down from general to specific and over to siblings etc. . . • You get definitions with layers of examples.

For example: – If you are looking for a skill, you can see the power of all the people with that skill, or – Similar skills; with – Qualifying project roles history. – A piece of equipment can only be at one place at a time; but • (like drilling up and down on a map on the internet) – That place can be associated with many locations.

For example cont. • You can see all the equipment at TDC or just the equipment at a room in the Salmon building, or just the equipment being shared in that room and who is sharing it and why. • A team database defines multiple enterprises – (enterprises, enterprise relationships, and enterprises within enterprises) and • A team database associates enterprises with things and people.

People Sharing Knowledge, Improving Teamwork – Security • Need to Know and Secret Formulas

No Secrets in Strategic Information • Team power knowledge is strategic information (what not how), so you do not have to worry about losing control of a secret formula.

Teams define “need to know” • When do you have a “need to know”? – If you are on a team, you need to know team power. So, • Teams define “need to know. ”

People Sharing Things • So we have a database that shows people sharing things (sharing a room, communicating, sharing equipment), Object DB • Another database that describes a specific overall meaning of the sharing (facilities, customers, suppliers, products, and services), Enterprise DB, and • Another database that coordinates the sharing (shared facilities and equipment, conflicting purposes, requests, proposals) by describing different views of the same thing, and by associating things with purpose, Team DB.

People Improving Teamwork – The big picture (strategic definitions and relationships) will improve teamwork.