Samenvatting

In recent research and discussions both authors have shown that choosing a management concept is only one side of the coin, and that implementing it is quite another. The way of handling information plays an essential role in this. It can be said that many commanders of result-responsible units within the defence organization struggle with the question of what constitutes the most suitable information design for internal management. But also the executive and commanding level above the result-responsible units is searching for an optimal information provision from and about these units. Finally, there is much intensive study intothe most adequate information provision from the Secretary and Minister of defence via the so-called TOP-report. In this article the question of internal and external information provision within and about result-responsible units in the framework of the BBD 2000 management philosophy is considered in more detail, from the angle of integral responsibility. After a general description of the concept of information provision the following topics will be dealt with in this contribution;- The importance of and requirements for information provision;- The TOP-report of the MoD ;- Information provision within and about result-responsible units and empirical research .