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In an era of increasing compliance requirements, simpler business techniques offer opportunities to offset these costs in large corporations and government business. Since 1996 a number of government departments, government-owned corporations, government-sponsored community organizations and even groups within political parties have used many of the simpler business techniques to focus their activities and improve their performance.
While the techniques to remove complexity and adopt simplicity in large companies and government are much the same as in small and medium sized businesses, there are some modifications needed to implement these in the larger businesses. How to adapt the simpler business techniques to the large corporation or government business will be added to this site in the future. Stay tuned for:
- 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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