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New tools for handling complexity. Does your company manage complexity by causing things more complicated? If so, you are not alone. Based on the Boston Consulting Group's interesting Difficulty Index, business intricacy has increased sixfold in the past 60 years. And, all the while, organizational complicatedness - that is, the amount of structures, processes, committees, decision-making community forums, and systems - has increased by an impressive factor of 35. In their attempt to respond to the increasingly complex performance requirements they face, company leaders have created an organizational labyrinth that means it is more and more difficult to improve productivity and pursue innovation. In addition, it disengages and demotivates the workforce. Clearly it's time for leaders to stop seeking to manage intricacy using their traditional tools and instead better leverage employees' cleverness. This book demonstrates how and talks about the implications for building and leading organizations. The way to manage intricacy, the authors claim, is neither with the hard solutions of another time nor with the tender solutions - such as team building and feel-good "people initiatives" - that often follow in their wake. Predicated on interpersonal sciences (notably economics, game theory, and organizational sociology) and The Boston Consulting Group's use more than 500 companies in more than 40 countries and in various industries, authors Yves Morieux and Peter Tollman recommend six simple rules to manage intricacy without getting complicated. Showing why the guidelines work and exactly how to place them into practice, Morieux and Tollman give managers a much-needed tool to reinvigorate people when confronted with seemingly endless intricacy. Included are detailed examples from companies that have achieved a multiplicative effect on performance by using them. It is time to manage intricacy better. Use these six simple rules to foster autonomy and co-operation and effectively manage business complexity. Because of this, you will improve productivity, innovate more, reengage your workforce, and seize opportunities to create competitive advantages.
