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Burgess Manuscript
CONCEPTUAL OVERVIEW
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COMMUNITY ANALYTICS

Manuscript Draft from 2009
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Main Sections
[1] Overview Open 010000
[2] Core Concepts Open 020000
[3] Managing for Progress Open 030000
[4] Community Focus Open 040000
[5] Progress Dynamics Open 050000
[6] The State of Society Open 060000
[7] Value Change Activities Open 070000
Sections / Sub-Sections
Overview:
  • Why?
  • What?
  • When?
  • Where?
  • Who?
  • How?
Core Concepts
  • Thermodynamics, Economics and Accountancy
  • Getting Beyond Financial Metrics
  • Transparency and Accountability
  • Cost ... Price ... Value
  • Derivatives of Cost, Price and Value
  • Organized Data
  • Logical Framework
  • Progress and Productivity
  • Feedback ... Reporting ... Facilitating Change
  • And a Whole Lot More
Managing for Progress
  • The Management Cycle
  • About Data ... Metadata
  • Data Acquisition and Transmission
  • Data Organization, Storage and Access
  • Objective Analysis
  • Responsible Reporting
  • Feedback
  • Technology
Community Focus
  • Structural Complexity
  • Simplifying Performance Metrics
  • Clarity at the Community Level
  • Community Perspectives
  • Elements of Data about the Community
  • Overview Data about the Community
  • Analysis Data about the Community
Value Dynamics of Society
  • Existing Models and Metrics are Inadequate
  • Value Adding, Value Destruction and Sustainability
  • Global, National and Community Dynamics
  • The Value Dynamic of Markets
  • Rule of Law ... or Rigging the System
  • Incentives ... Profit or Value?
  • Needs, Wants and Market Demand ... Poverty
  • Making the Best of Available Resources
  • Productivity Instead of Growth
  • Metrics ... for Services and for Production
  • Value Dynamic in an Organization
About State
  • Balance Sheet
  • Making Progress Metrics Simple
  • About Assets
  • Cash ... Money
  • Current assets
  • Fixed assets
  • Intangible assets
  • About Liabilities
  • Current liabilities
  • Debt ... long term liabilities
  • Equity
  • Community Assets
  • Commons
  • Human Capital
  • Natural Resources
  • Know How
  • Organization
  • Community liabilities
  • Constraints
Value Change Activities
  • ?
  • Behavior of cost and value
  • Clarity about product and cost
  • Measuring performance
  • Money cost elements
  • Value cost elements
  • People costs
  • Equipment costs
  • Materials, supplies
  • General expenses
  • Operating overhead
  • Financial costs
  • Standard costs
  • Price
  • Profit and value adding
  • Value
  • Standard value
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