Stunting—impaired development due to poor nutrition and other factors—is a complex and life-long problem. Applying Smart Simplicity, WFP, BCG, and partners developed a collaborative, feedback-based model to prevent it.
What Is Smart Simplicity?
Smart Simplicity helps organizations identify and resolve unnecessary complicatedness and deliver lasting, measurable change. How does a Smart Simplicity approach differ from traditional solutions? We take into consideration the drivers of behavior—the context that employees work within—and then shape this context to achieve the desired behaviors.
A Holistic Framework for Smart Simplicity
- Smart Start. We start by conducting our Complicatedness Survey to pinpoint symptoms of complicatedness across eight key dimensions and identify pain points that are hindering performance in your organization
- Diagnosis. Using Smart Simplicity’s proven diagnostic tools, deep-dive employee interviews, and behavioral science, we identify the root causes of complicatedness and establish the link between context and behavior. We then determine how changes to the context will make new behaviors rational—and thereby improve performance.
- Solution. Finally, we apply six simple rules for overcoming complexity, a set of Smart Simplicity strategies that are based on economics, game theory, and organizational sociology.
- Implementation. To ensure that change is happening, we provide an implementation roadmap and embed Smart Simplicity thinking within the organization.
Our Clients' Success with Smart Simplicity
BCG has applied the Smart Simplicity approach in various types of businesses—including banks, utilities, insurance agencies, retail chains, and manufacturers—and delivered a wide range of sustainable performance improvements. The scope of Smart Simplicity has further extended to address complex global challenges, including hunger, climate change, and urban mobility.
A large industrial company needed to tackle complexity and improve product quality. With smart simplicity, their purchasing department achieved a 20% reduction in costs while maintaining quality levels.
A telecom-system manufacturer needed to foster internal cooperation and speed up product innovation. Using our smart simplicity approach, they gained a 20% time-to-market advantage over competitors in 15 months.
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Empowering Parents With a Stunting-Free Village Model in Rwanda
Our Featured Insights on Smart Simplicity
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July 14, 2020
Smart Simplicity: Improved Performance, More Meaningful Work
BCG’s
Peter Tollman says that organizations need new approaches to help them succeed in an age of increasing complexity.
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September 24, 2021
The pandemic unleashed a global experiment in productivity and performance. Just as public health officials have much to learn from the crisis, so too do corporate executives.
