How to Install Simplicity
7 Apr
To install simplicity as a way of life in your organization would involve making it your responsibility to take charge of moving from the complex to making things simple. Simplicity will not happen on its own. It has to be someone’s task to deal with complex issues that waste time, energy and effort for the corporation. To position simplicity in your organization will call for everyone to be involved in making it work but it will need a group or an individual to take charge of the program.
Let’s take for example the process of signing up visitors at the reception desk for buildings located in active business districts. There definitely is a faster and less complex way of doing registration for guests coming for appointments with tenants in the building. Almost everyone complains about how long and difficult it is to line up to get an identification card and finally receive clearance to proceed. Why has the system not changed despite the fact that it needs changing? Why has there been no effort to simplify the system even if it has proven itself to be a time-waster? No change has happened because no one has taken the responsibility towards making things simple. Someone has to stand responsible for implementing simplicity in the workplace. (more…)
