Simplicity consulting
It doesn’t have to be complicated …
But all too often it is. Complexity might be the biggest problem you don’t even know you have. Especially if your business is suffering from any of these all-too-common problems:
- Your revenue keeps increasing, even as your profits continue to fall …
- Your strategic planning was a success, but your strategic implementation/ execution is lacklustre …
- You have dozens of metrics and indicators, and yet the performance of your business units continues to fall short …
- You want to foster innovation, but you end up stifling it instead …
- You stumble from one crisis to another. The fire-fighting never ends …
4 simple paths to success
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Once you understand complexity, you realize that it goes largely unrecognized. It is also pervasive, meaning that you can find its influence and effects everywhere.
We most commonly see it in product lines and market segments, in everyday operational settings, in strategy formulation and execution, in the areas of business, technological, and social innovation, in organisational leadership, and in sustainability.
Price simplification guidance
Are you ready to take the lead in lowering prices for your customers?
Price simplification is not just about cutting costs. It involves so much more: from investing in automation and reducing labour, to coordinating throughput and integrating along supply chains.
But it all starts with an innovation: if you can find an innovative way to cut prices in half, then you are ready to start the journey of strategic price simplification.
Experience simplification guidance
If you are in a more niche market, and your product or service is relatively complex or difficult to understand and use, then you can consider simplifying the user’s overall experience of your product.
Price simplification involves looking at different combinations and weightings of attributes such as utility, functionality, ease of use, and aesthetic appeal.
But it all starts with an innovation in design that leads to competitive differentiation.
Systematic simplification guidance
Some companies seem to be doing everything right, because they are able to successfully drive top-line revenue growth.
And yet, at the end of the every month, quarter, or fiscal year, you can see that your profits either remain stagnant, or worse, continue to decline.
The problem, more often than not, comes down to excessive complicatedness in your product lines. And that is why you need to pursue a strategy of systematic structural and operational simplification.
Audacious simplification guidance
Research shows that companies that make big moves are better able to achieve out-sized growth.
If you are ready to be audacious, then setting a bunch of small strategic goals, or timid incremental moves, just won’t do.
The problem is that your strategy process is complicated by innumerable competing agendas, organisational politics, and social games. And that is why you need to embrace a process of audacious goal simplification.
Simplification is not necessarily going to be easy. But it definitely doesn’t have to be complicated… The path to simplification is also the pathway to delivering great performance and achieving tremendous growth.