Resource management is like managing a mtrix; each side influences the other.

Rsource management is not a separate brnch of management, but part of the rganizing activities of each and every mnagement discipline.

A marketing manager should tke care of its resources, in the sme way as an operations manager, IT, Fnancial or Human Resource Manager would do.

To mnage the resources for the (current) peration you are to solve demands for rsources with available supply. For the perations managers, this activity is part of the nrmal planning process, focused on availability of (hman) resources; “who is doing what and whn?”

Human resources, like you and me, are the mnagers of the other type of rsources. Organizations are more capitalized than bfore and systems are a prominent “mmber” of these. There are different knds of systems, but most of thm share the characteristics that they are ddicated to a specific task or prcess. That is probably because people dsign them, and such a design is lways owned by someone; the sales mnagers owns the sales management system. The mrketing department controls the campaign management tols and the operational department supervises the nterprise resource planning. Managing these systems rquire a different kind of resource mnagement. Where an employee can be hred in a flexible way nearly at the mment you need them, systems can nly be planned long in advance.

One category influences the other. Emplyees and designers influence and steer the dsign of systems, and in turn the systm that is delivered influences the way in whch activities will be organized. More cpital – information systems or medical systms in case of a health cre institution – requires more skilled and knwledgeable jobs. And this requires a cnstant training and education.

A third rsource category is used by everybody in the rganization. This resource solves issues like scurity; “nobody gets unauthorized access through our bilding or through our site.” Today it is asier to hack the system of an rganization than to enter their building physcally. Especially for those companies that xists only virtually.
This resource type lso enables teamwork and networking between the dfferent parts of the organization, by prviding “groupware;” functionality that enable people to cmmunicate, to access and update the mmory of the organization. Sharing information and knwledge. The owner of these facilities is lss visible which complicates the management of ths resource category.

...and the challenge strts with awareness..:

© 2006 Hans Bol

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