EPMOD, Inc.

Aligning business processes, projects, and people with enterprise strategy

One of the keys to the success of the Network Centric Management  approach is in providing the means of bridging the communication gaps between executives and those tasked to realize the executive’s responsibility for achieving their organization’s mission, goals, and strategic objectives.

Network Centric Management  is a business communications and management approach developed by EPMOD to help managers enable a culture of self-managing, super-performing teams. For over 20 years, this approach has proved effective in leading and motivating teams committed to achieving organizational objectives - sometimes despite a lack of resources -  and successfully  executing projects of all types and complexities.  A new, Internet-based structured communication network, now in beta testing, will soon permit organizations to easily implement this approach throughout their entire organization and supply chain – regardless of team members’ location or business affiliation.

The Problem Being Solved

Too frequently, businesses and governmental agencies experience huge time and cost overruns on undertakings, especially those involving disparate organizations and teams. In today’s competitive global business environment, managers are expected to manage complex teams that may include many individuals from different business units, as well as outsourced sub-consultants, suppliers, and vendors distributed around the globe – but have no effective tool for easily communicating with others outside of their functional unit.

To make matters worse, executives holding responsibility for the overall organization’s performance lack the visibility needed within distributed virtual teams to identify and respond to issues that can have an adverse affect on the entire organization.  

The Solution

EPMOD provides a new approach to developing effective, cohesive teams, and an Internet-based  structured communication network to enable easy communication among all team members with interrelated tasks.

Both the EPMOD approach and structured communication network are based on the simple concept of obtaining personal commitments among the individuals jointly responsible to achieve specific results at varying levels of management. These individuals, the results expected of them, and person-to-person Internet connections among those with interdependent responsibilities for results define a structured business network through which the work is managed. This structured business network becomes the “communications backbone” that is built into the software.

Network Centric Management encompasses much more than just project management; it addresses the needs of the entire organization by supporting improved communication, performance planning and monitoring, and individual development. It enables and encourages people to collaborate across organizational boundaries to achieve shared goals, rather than focusing primarily on their functional or departmental interests. Enterprise-wide processes, such as procurement or quality control processes, can  also be integrated within projects while still meeting critical “vertical” business unit goals and compliance requirements.

Network Centric Management is forward-looking, with individual performers responsible for understanding, managing and meeting their own commitments, and remaking commitments as soon as one is in danger of being missed. This supports swift corrective action being taken by those directly affected. It enables holders of varying levels of responsibility to be aware of the current status of their commitments, and to be aware of potential issues or delays at the earliest point in time.

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