Getting Smart About Change Management
Change programs have become more prevalent and complex, but the results are often disappointing. Enter the Change Delta, a versatile approach based on the principles of Smart Simplicity.
Change programs have become more prevalent and complex, but the results are often disappointing. Enter the Change Delta, a versatile approach based on the principles of Smart Simplicity.
Smart Simplicity, supported by digital tools, can help unleash the productivity and engagement so desperately needed in the modern economy.
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.
Chronic child hunger is one of the world’s most complex problems. Smart Simplicity can be a powerful tool to use when tackling it.
Companies have applied BCG’s Exercising for Excellence approach to reduce the costs of support functions by up to 35% while increasing productivity by some 50%.
Modern work—from waiting tables to crunching numbers to designing products—is about solving brand-new problems every day, flexibly and collaboratively. But as Yves Morieux shows in this insightful talk, too often, an overload of rules, processes and metrics keeps us from doing our best work together. Meet the new frontier of productivity: cooperation.
Amid growing complexity, many companies act in ways that increase their “complicatedness.” Instead, they should simplify, using an approach that fundamentally changes employee behaviors.
Ingenious enterprises bring a distinct, highly sophisticated approach to problem solving, one ideally suited to today’s increasingly complex business environment.
“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.
Ambidexterity—the ability to excel simultaneously in efficiency and innovation—is a rare but increasingly critical asset in today’s complex business environment.
Across virtually all industries, unprecedented disruption and market turbulence are requiring organizations to launch more frequent transformations in response.
In this clear, candid talk, Roselinde Torres describes 25 years observing truly great leaders at work, and she shares the three simple but crucial questions would-be company chiefs need to ask to thrive in the future.
New CEOs and senior executives often take over with a mandate for change. A structured four-step process can help them launch a transformation program and improve performance in a sustainable way.
John Clarkeson wrote that the winning organization of the future will look more like a collection of jazz ensembles than a symphony orchestra. The future is here.
Stop Trying to Control People or Make Them Happy
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.
BY YVES MORIEUX AND PETER TOLLMAN
By Yves Morieux and Peter Tollman
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