A proven way of planning and budgeting with a unique new computer program
WITH RESOURCES NOW YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO AND SPEND, AND WHY
CRITICAL MANAGEMENT ISSUES
Have you too many projects chasing too little cash? How can scarce resources be managed more effectively? How can all the factors be taken into account together? Is it true that plans and budgets usually contradict our priorities? Do yours? How can you show you've put your money where your mouth is? Are plans and budgets realistic and rational? Do spending and performance reflect real priorities? Resources Now helps managers resolve these critical issues.
Resources Now PROVED IN USE
Resources Now is increasingly used in business and public services, from ICI and the DHSS to the smaller organisation, from industrial companies and professional firms to local and central government departments. It is based on effective new methods of planning and financial management. These were practically and technically tested with organisations as diverse as Imperial Chemical Industries, the Department of Health and Social Security, the Robert Gordon Institute of Technology, Greenwich and Hampshire Councils, Essex and Kent Social Services, Newcastle and Merton Health Authorities, Escapade, Penta-Daxo Investments Inc, the Council for Educational Technology.
Resources Now is for every manager: line -managers in marketing or production, product or service managers, financial advisors or accountants, planners, trainers. Nearly 1000 of them have already used Resources Now for just about every kind of plan and budget, even before our official launch.
The Resources Now system (or 'the Plan-maker' as users call it) is a practical new way of planning and budgeting, with a 'smart' new kind of 'advisory' or 'decision-insight' computer program. It's the product of latest University research on how effective business and public service managers plan and evaluate their projects and decide their budgets. It is unique.
Were planning and budgeting just a matter of processing facts and figures, any number of computer programs could do this for you. Resources Now does much more. It doesn't just analyse. Resources Now produces reliable PLANS and BUDGETS from your raw views, requirements and data. Fast. Resources Now also enables you to MONITOR and EVALUATE spending, performance and results - guarantees you've invested in YOUR priorities. With Resources Now, you know what to do and spend, where and why and with what effects.
The beauty of Resources Now is its ease of use. You need NO technical, accountancy, maths or computer know-how to use Resources Now. It provides management for non-financial managers on a non-programmer's program; OR sophisticated planning and high finance for experts. You tailor Resources Now to your own particular work and style, whether you buy, sell, manufacture, invest or provide a service.
Resources Now is becoming essential for all managers who really understand the value of money, and of the goods and services they provide.
HOW Resources Now HELPS
EFFECTIVE PLANNING
Agree reliable plans sooner Transform ideas into workable plans Apply your experience productively Bridge data gaps Reconcile conflicting claims Foresee effects of decisions Evaluate performance Achieve aims within constraints
EFFECTIVE BUDGETING
Make reasonable budgets fast Translate needs into budgets Increase turnover not overheads Account for all factors Decide practicable allocations Reveal investment implications Control spending Achieve more for less
HOW Resources Now WORKS
PLANNING 1 Record items 2 Record available money 3 Record factors affecting plans 4 Resources Now calculates your PLANS
MONITORING 5 Record items 6 Record available money 7 Record performance factors 8 Resources Now MONITORS your results
PLANNING Provide decisions and data on some or all factors in any combination. Resources Now then works out your BUDGET PLAN, and / or OPERATIONS PLAN:
What’s available? What’s important? What happened before? What’s wanted? What costings? What limits? What perspective?
YOUR PLAN
What to spend on what? What money is required? What to supply of what? What can’t be supplied?
Resources Now FACTORS
TOTAL AVAILABLE MONEY (money) PRIORITIES (weights) PAST LEVELS (money or volumes) DEMANDS (money or volumes) UNIT COSTS (money) CONSTRAINTS (money or volumes) EMPHASIS
Resources Now PLAN
BUDGET: SUPPLY (money)
OPERATIONS: SUPPLY (volumes)
Resources Now EXERCISES aid all your decisions and estimates. (Use estimates where you don’t have data). Monitor and Consistency measures provide built-in reliability checks. But you only appreciate how the system improves planning and financial management when you’ve experienced Resources Now in practice.