From Complexity to Simplicity: Unleash Your Organisation's Potential

by Simon Collinson

What is Complexity, What is Simplicity? The True Cost of What are the Business & 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 Organisational Complexity How to Change the Management Behaviours that Cause Complexity Communicating with Simplicity

Genres: Management

308 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

Reviews

[Jamie Bowen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not quite the type of complexity book I was looking for, but nevertheless it was an interesting and worthwhile read. The book almost feels like a continuous improvement manual, with processes of how to diagnose problems, get to root cause, prioritise etc. Indeed the book mentions "Lean" methodology and the pros and cons, ironically the "Simplicity" methodology is very similar, if nobody thinks DMAIC when reading it then I must have missed something.

[Daniel B · Rating 3 out of 5]

The irony of this statement in a book entitled "Complexity to Simplicity" was not lost on me:

"C=[A+B+D] > X
i.e. change can only occur when factors ABD are stronger than the cost of change (X)"

I am not joking, this is a real quote from the book.

The irony doesn't end there, it is often unnecessarily complex in my opinion. Though in fairness, complexity is by definition a complex topic!

I do recommend it to anyone interested in better business. It is an underrated problem, and hats off to the Authors for the theme and a decent book.

The principles are sound, and the tools provided within the book are practical and useable for anyone in any business.

[Bert Janssens · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent framework that focuses on what to do but not on how to do it.