The level of complexity in most organizations today isstaggering-and it's only getting worse. There are so many choicesto be made, people to involve, processes to manage, and facts toanalyze, it's impossible to get things done. And in today'shypercompetitive world, that can be fatal.
Yet complexity doesn't happen on its own. Managers unwittinglycreate it, often through well-intended decisions. In SimplyEffective, Ron Ashkenas provides a playbook for regaining control,focused on the four major causes of complexity:
-Constant changes in organizational structures
-Proliferation of products and services
-Evolution of business processes
-Time-wasting managerial behaviors
The author provides a diagnostic for identifying how these causesof complexity are affecting your organization-and presentspractical tactics for combating each one.
Ashkenas also explains how to craft a strategy that will makesimplification an ongoing driver of your company's success-nomatter where you work in your organization. Abundant examples fromcompanies like ConAgra Foods, GE, Cisco, Zurich Financial Services,and Johnson & Johnson illuminate his points.
A crucial resource in today's overly complex age, SimplyEffective should be required reading for everyone on yourmanagement team.
【作者简介】
Ron Ashkenas is a Managing Partner of Robert H. Schaffer &Associates, where he consults to CEOs and senior executives onleadership, organizational transformation, and postmergerintegration. He has served on the faculty of executive educationprograms at Harvard Business School, Stanford Graduate School ofBusiness, Kellogg School of Management, University of Michigan RossSchool of Business, and Weatherhead School of Management. He is thecoauthor of The Boundaryless Organization, The GE Work-Out, andRapid Results.
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