Today’s businesses are increasingly complex, and traditional management solutions are obsolete, says BCG managing director and senior partner Yves Morieux. In this TED talk, Morieux offers six rules for Smart Simplicity, an approach to help organizations successfully address complexity to gain competitive advantage.
Conventional management theories and practices are no match for the dizzying complexity that so many managers face. There’s a better approach. It’s called Smart Simplicity.
By Yves Morieux and Peter Tollman
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Companies are revolutionizing how people work. Now they need to transform how managers manage.
How many companies can truly say that their employees “play for each other”?
BCG’s Peter Tollman says that organizations need new approaches to help them succeed in an age of increasing complexity.
Amid growing complexity, many companies act in ways that increase their “complicatedness.” Instead, they should simplify, using an approach that fundamentally changes employee behaviors.
Companies that successfully root out complicatedness will increase their productivity and gain a competitive advantage.
Why do public-sector workers tend to be so demoralized and disengaged? Because their organizations are strangled by rules. The cure: applying the principles of Smart Simplicity.
Despite general challenges to productivity in biopharma R&D, a few companies continue to excel. The key is their superior organizational effectiveness, which enhances cooperative behavior among R&D staff.
To overcome climate inaction, we must understand the rationale for individuals’ behaviors, identify the groups that could change those behaviors, and work with those groups to transform the vicious cycle into a virtuous one.
In order for companies to meet the challenging digital requirements in today's environment, they must eradicate complicatedness and focus on smart simplicity.
Digital transformation is vital to companies’ survival, yet it is threatened by complicatedness. A four-step process helps organizations combat complicatedness—and set the stage for success.
Applying a new approach to chronic child hunger in Tanzania yields powerful lessons for governments and organizations that are tackling other tough challenges.
“Embracing what BCG calls smart simplicity helps companies streamline while fostering employee cooperation to develop solutions,” BCG’s Yves Morieux writes in Harvard Business Review.
In a blog published on HBR.org, the authors of Six Simple Rules explain how employees are most productive when they have the freedom to make critical judgments.
Conventional management theories and practices are no match for the dizzying complexity that so many managers face. There’s a better approach. It’s called Smart Simplicity.
