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In an era of increasing compliance requirements, a more turbulent economy and greater competition, simpler business techniques offer the opportunity to offset these difficulties. Since 1996 a number of government departments, government-owned corporations, government-sponsored community organizations and even groups within political parties have used business simplification techniques to focus their activities and improve their performance.
The techniques to remove complexity and introduce simplicity in large companies and government businesses are much the same as in medium sized businesses. Our preferred approach for sustainable simplification in large businesses is to accredit and license the business to implement the techniques inside the organization. This includes training/coaching key executives and managers to give them the confidence to do it themselves - simplification is much more effective when it starts from the top.
Contact the Simpler Business Institute if you'd like help in applying our Principles and Tools to the following types of issues in a large corporation or government business:
- Simpler business processes to help existing staff achieve their outcomes more easily and with less stress
- Reduced red tape delays by simplifying processes to achieve timely throughput with the same staff
- Business units clearly focused on providing exceptional value to their customers
- Greater customer satisfaction for all types of customers (internal, ministers, community, business)
- Higher customer and community value by stopping non-customer-value-adding activities
- Tools to allow employees to reach agreement on priorities more easily.
- Reducing 50 page plans to 5 pages
- Planning to do fewer things but actually achieving more output
- Reducing the costly complexity of organization structures and interfaces
- Using the 80/20 Principle to simplify change management to better handle changing community expectations
- Achieving much more effective and efficient links between government units.
- Simplifying business continuity management
- Commercializing government business activities
- Removing the costs of middle & upper management adding complexity to protect their positions
- More effective use of taxpayer funds via reduced cost of complexity in work activities
- More effective planning & implementation of plans due to removal of costly, unnecessary documentation
- Greater transparency of information via simpler documentation
- Reduced document complexity leading to reduced time spent reading, understanding and meeting
- Greater impact of technology on efficiencies by always simplifying before automating
- More time available for work-based wellness programs leading to lower costs of sickness & chronic disease.
Simply does it!
Ian Dover
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