Which Management Framework is Right for Your Organization?

AUSTIN, Texas - July 1, 2021 - PRLog -- To get a complete picture of the future of management frameworks, we're going to go back to the very beginning – to the start of the 20th Century when the first waves of the industrial revolution were still in full swing across the USA.

(1908) Fordism

It was in these days that Henry Ford launched the famous Ford Model T (1908), and by 1914, Ford factories were churning out thousands of cars every week. The philosophy of "Fordism" transformed car manufacturing from one of highly skilled craft labor fitting individual parts together to a new era of unskilled labor assembling "interchangeable" parts (built to exact tolerances) on a moving assembly line.

(1911) Scientific Management (AKA Taylorism)

In this era, Frederick Taylor attained fame as what we would call today the world's first "management consultant." Taylor's seminal work, The Principles of Scientific Management, pioneered the use of time-management studies to increase worker productivity and efficiency in the factory, primarily in the steel industry.

(1910s) Gantt Chart

Henry Gannt helped bring order to complex industrial-scale projects, thanks to his eponymous charting system that helps visualize complex schedule dependencies between individual tasks in an easy-to-grasp way. Gannt charts were adopted by US military planners in World War I and remain a mainstay management tool to this day; one remains easily recognizable to users of Microsoft Project and other software planning tools.

(1930s) Shewhart Cycle, Later Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA)

In the interwar period, Walter A. Shewhart, working at Bell Telephone, wrote Economic Control of Quality of Manufactured Product (1931), followed by Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control (1939). Together, these works form the basis of today's modern statistical quality control systems. Physicist and co-collaborator W. Edward Deming developed these ideas further for use in increasing product quality in industrial manufacturing, promoting them as the "Shewhart Cycle." After WWII, this system became better known by the acronym PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) and was widely embraced, as we'll see shortly, by Japanese industrialists.

(1940s And 1957) CPM Critical Path Method

Another management system that's still widely used today is CPM, short for the Critical Path Method. Building on the management philosophies of DuPont in the 1930s, CPM came into its own as an organizational tool when it was used to manage the sprawling yet top-secret Manhattan Project to build the world's first atomic weapon during World War II.

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