From Complexity to Simplicity

What is Complexity, What is Simplicity? The True Cost of Complexity: 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

Simon Collinson and Melvin Jay

'In this book Melvin Jay and his team at The Simplicity Partnership have managed to accomplish something rare - a business book that is both conceptually fascinating and academically sound whilst remaining practical for business leaders. A must-read for anyone struggling with the challenge of our age.' - Emmanuel Gobillot, best-selling author of The Connected Leader and LeaderShift-'This is an excellent book and tackles one of the biggest issues facing global companies - complexity. It provides simple and insightful ways on how an organisation can look at its level of complexity and ideas on how to simplify.' - Mike Johnson, CEO CASTROL-'Simplicity's approach presented in this book is easily comprehensible and can be used as a practical guide for how to reduce complexity in any company.' - Cenk Eldem, Global Head of Bayer Complexity Reduction Programs-'This book describes how to create a culture of simplicity in a very clear, concise and simple way.' - Raja Al-Khatib, Chief of Staff to Group CEO, and Group Director of Internal Communications, Vodafone-'Readable, eye-opening and fascinating. This book is for anyone struggling to address the challenges of complexity in large organisations. Collinson and Jay tackle these issues head-on, and using insights from academic research and practical experience, provide actionable advice on creating a simplification strategy that is both compelling and fascinating.' - Professor Moira Clark, Director of The Henley Centre for Customer Management, Henley Business School