From Complexity to Smart Simplicity for Enterprise Transformation

I don't know you, but I strive for a simplicity mindset in all walks of my life. As an Enterprise Architect, it has been critical in my professional life. Simplicity is an immutable requirement to be fulfilled for the success of digital transformations and enterprise modernisation goals. Simplicity is also one of the mandatory attributes of digital leaders and content creators. Digital leaders must be capable of turning complexity to simplicity effectively. Let’s point out the reasons briefly.

Simplicity touches almost every angle of enterprise modernisation and transformation solutions because these solutions can incredibly be complex. Simplicity, in sophisticated enterprises, is a paradoxical topic. Enterprise modernisation and transformations are complex tasks and require sophisticated intelligence such as in-depth knowledge, varied skills, unique capabilities, and extensive experience. We must simplify the complicated processes, systems, tools and technologies leveraging our digital intelligence.

Paradoxically, to create simplicity, one needs to deal with a lot of complexity, complications, and sophisticated matters. This is where digital intelligence plays an important role. Obtaining the required knowledge, acquiring advanced skills, gaining substantial experience, and displaying unique capabilities are challenging and not indeed trivial activities. We need to deal with tremendous setbacks, constraints, limitations, and obscurity to create simplicity by using our digital intelligence.

From my observations, digitally intelligent leaders who deal with complexity and sophisticated matters can have extraordinary attributes to simplify things for other people. One primary focus area is effective communication. The other key areas are consumer-centric simplicity, design simplicity, and specifications simplicity. There are more of course, beyond the scope of this article, as I pointed out in my recent publication titled Digital Intelligence .

Simplicity is a well sought-after characteristic in digital services and products. The modern digital enterprises aim to offer simplified solutions to consumers. As opposed to complexity, simplicity is favourable by consumers. In other words, consumers expect easy-to-use products and services; they certainly discard convoluted ones. Therefore, digital service creators are expected to simplify complex situations and complicated problems and offer simple solutions to delight their consumers.