shorten their completion terms and raise decisions quality. Mental powers of a single
individual have certain inclinations, peculiarities, reserves and their limitations, but the
use of modern computers operative and long-term memory widens specialists’
brainpower for deciding management problems and grounded choice of optimal
management decisions.
Thus, modern management technologies can be realized only based on up-to-date
informational technologies. Management process automation, available constantly
updating software, and global informational networks substantially change all areas of
enterprise manufacturing and economic activity from production to consumption.
Hence, enterprise management technologies development is a continuous
improvement of management system main characteristics to achieve enterprise
management targets based on changing external and internal functioning conditions. It
means management system and all its elements gaining new qualitative characteristic
different from previous ones, which let it, work more efficiently.
Qualitative changes are difficult to estimate and enterprise personnel can accept
the development result not immediately. At the same time, only qualitative changes
finally characterize management technologies development process taking into
account its quantitative parameter dynamics.
During the last decades, dominant management practice has changed. Emphasis
has moved from reaching enterprise economic efficiency to providing decisions
quality, flexibility, and validity and creating organizational knowledge. Tendencies in
management activity development define enterprise behavior direction in the spheres
of scientific research and developments aimed at potential formation sufficient for
taking into account environmental changes and achieving long-term goals, as well as
efficient competitive strategy realization. At the same time management system
development tendency should be not only coordinated with enterprise development
strategy but also at definite times (such as depression and crisis) it should become
basic. Management system consists of different subsystems and elements, but
irrespective of classification, each element possesses its own potential. Enterprise
potential consists of and depends on all its subsystems activities potential.
Generally, enterprise potential is availability and maximum applicability of all
resources (possibilities) of an enterprise. Enterprise potential traditionally means
aggregate of activities or factors defining its power, sources, capability, means, and
other production resources that can be used in economic activity. Enterprise potential
defines both its activity results and economic growth, and further development
resources. Enterprise total potential consists of separate constituents such as labour,
economic, organizational, scientific and technical, manufacturing, entrepreneurial,
financial potential etc.
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