Remove organizational complexity to boost long-term profitabilityThe Simple Answer shows you how to enhance profitability by exposing and banishing unnecessary complexity from your organization forever. This field-tested roadmap uses examples from global companies including Apple, Google, Nestle, Unilever, LEGO, and more to illustrate the far-reaching effects of organizational simplification, showing executives how to guide their organization to reduce the number of things they do, but do them consistently well. The six-step SPRING Clean framework provides step-by-step guidance for identifying complexities, evaluating their necessity, removing bad complexities, and optimizing the good complexities that contribute to a stronger organization - and maintaining simplicity for the long-term. The entire second half of the framework focuses on keeping the newfound simplicity sustainable, because staying simple is where the long-term benefits are.Complexity is not a problem for organizations today - it is the problem. To vanquish complexity in the long term, organizations need to stop it from happening in the first place.
This book is a guide to the mindset change and fundamental shift in decision making required to make this happen. With this one simple framework, you'll learn to: * Identify the complexities holding your organization back * Build and execute an effective simplification strategy * Remove bad complexity and optimize good complexity * Maintain simplicity with good governanceParing down to the essentials brings clarity - clarity of vision, clarity of thought, the clarity to see where your organization is headed and where it needs to go. You'll gain a more cohesive picture of your organization, your product, your talent, and how these things come together to drive progress. The Simple Answer guides you through the deep evaluation it takes to get simple and stay simple, one decision at a time.