Synopses & Reviews
Start a simplicity revolution! Complexity is one of the biggest challenges facing modern business. It is slowing companies down, costing them on average 10% of their profits and harming employee morale. From Complexity to Simplicity will equip you and your business with the tools you need to identify and eradicate complexity from your business model. Based on cutting-edge research with the top-200 firms in the world, it takes you through real business case studies and offers a practical how to guide to ridding your business of these profit-killing problems. Within the pages of the book you will discover: • What is complexity? What is simplicity?• The true costs of complexity• How to identify external and internal complexities• The impact of complexity on managers, employees and different parts of the business• How to guide to removing complexity• How to communicate with simplicity• The simplicity tool kit - every thing you need to make you a simplicity expertFrom Complexity to Simplicity will show you how to start your own simplicity revolution and how to add value to your business. So keep it simple and do better business every day.
About the Author
SIMON COLLINSON is Professor of International Business and Innovation at Henley Business School, Reading University (UK) and Guangbiao Chair Professor, Zhejiang University (China). He sits on the governing councils of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the British Academy of Management (BAM) and has held the roles of Deputy Dean and Associate Dean (MBAs) at Warwick Business School. Simon has over 20 years of executive teaching and consulting experience with a wide range of multinational companies in the areas of strategy, innovation and international business. His research has recently featured in The
Times, The Sunday Times, BBC Radio 4, the New Statesman and the US News and World Report.
MELVIN JAY is a Founder and CEO of the Simplicity Partnership. He has over 25 years of commercial and consulting experience. He spent the first 15 years of his working life battling complexity in blue-chip companies like Danone and Novartis. As a consultant he now works at the Simplicity Partnership, tackling the most difficult complexity problems with some of the world's biggest companies, across different sectors, including retailing, professional services, pharmaceuticals, financial services, technology and consumer goods.
Table of Contents
What is complexity, what is simplicity?
The true cost of complexity: What are the business and human consequences of complexity
What are the causes of complexity?: The human factor
Where complexity hides in your company and how to find it?
How to work out how much complexity is actually costing you
How to remove complexity 20 quick and easy things you can do The simplicity tool kit How to remove product complexity How to remove strategic complexity How to remove process complexity How to simplify management information and reporting How to remove organizational complexity How to change the management behaviors that cause complexity Communicating with simplicity