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- Simplicity-Minded Management
- The Idea in Brief Big companies have always been complex. But to cope with new challenges such as globalization, they've increased their complexity--with proliferating products, tangled reporting relationships, and duplicated processes. They've become unwieldy, ungovernable, and...
- Articles 2008-01-02
- Stop the Meeting Madness! Tools for Simplifying Your Company
- Is more than half your time soaked up in company meetings? How many layers of management sit between your CEO and front-line workers? Do you understand how to get a capital expense approved? The answer to these questions and 7 others in a new Harvard Business diagnostic...
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- The Simplification Of Complexity: Economies Of Scope Not Scale
- The American fund management industry is facing twin challenges. To continue to grow at home, it must innovate. To escape saturation at home, it must expand abroad. Both options entail an escalation of operational risks and complexities. Mitigating and managing those risks and complexities is the raison d'etre of the...
- White papers 2007-08-13
- Cracking The Complexity Code
- There are two types of complexity. Understanding where to intervene is the key to managing them to create value. One view of complexity holds that it's largely a bad thing - that simplification generally creates value by removing unnecessary costs. Excessive complexity, according to this argument, should be addressed by...
- White papers 2007-04-26
- The Impact Of Globalization On Retail Supply Chains
- There are three major challenges for retail supply chains brought about by the multi-polar world. Those are complexity, stretch and adaptation. Let's address complexity first. Again, regardless of whether a retailer is setting up shop in disparate global locations, increasingly interdependent economies magnify complexity. Even if global operations are limited...
- White papers 2008-08-07
- The Problem With IT Project Management
- Most corporate IT environments have significant complexity. Even if the set of systems and applications are small in number, their interconnections, customisations, and dependencies quickly evolve into a morass of complexity referred to as the "IT rat's nest". Into this environment of IT complexity, the business continues to impose their...
- White papers 2008-07-14
- Online Project Diagnostics: A Tool For Management Of Project Complexities
- Current project management approaches are based on the normative models that do not work well in an environment of change and uncertainty. All projects evolve as they go through their definition, planning and implementation phases. Much like humans, projects need careful nurturing and artful development till they are ready to...
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Unraveling Complexity In Products And Services For High Performance
- The company's decision might be wise: As businesses rapidly increase their portfolios of products and services - either in response to consumer demand or through mergers and acquisitions - they run the risk of adding too much complexity, which can eat away at scarce resources and ultimately harm returns. Product...
- White papers 2008-10-10
- Smart Growth: Innovating To Achieve High Performance Without Feeding The Beast Of Complexity
- Unbridled proliferation in the hopes of "Hitting it right" can lead companies into the trap of having too much complexity, which consumes existing resources and ultimately harms returns. Much complexity - seen or unseen - is the result of going too far with what companies misread as innovation. But discovering...
- White papers 2008-10-10
- Performance in reserve: Protecting and extending automotive spare parts profitability by managing complexity
- Automotive OEMs face many challenges: Constraining legacy IT systems. Increasingly demanding customers. Fierce competition. Legislative pressures. An explosion of product variety and complexity. Spare parts sales offer a sizeable opportunity for automotive OEMs that can understand their customers, optimize supply chains, improve collaboration and strengthen competitiveness....
- White papers 2008-04-15
- Process Complexity & Productivity In Off-Shore Outsourcing Of Services
- Outsourcing has become not only one of the most widely discussed business phenomena, but also one of the most poorly understood. We are, indeed, just beginning to understand the relationship among the nature of tasks being outsourced, the nature of governance structures and incentives that are in place to structure...
- White papers 2004-09-10
- Strategy Implementation Success: The Moderating Effects of Size and Environmental Complexity and the Mediating Effects of Involvement
- This paper explains the importance of foodservice managers' and organizational members' involvement in the implementation of strategy. The study assesses the direct and moderating effects of managers' perception of environmental complexity and firm size on level of involvement during strategy implementation. Findings indicate that firms operating in an environment of...
- White papers 2006-05-01
- Complexity, Networking, and Effects-Based Operations: Approaching the "How To" of EBO
- The drill-down model outlined should not be construed as a definitive rendition of all the ways in which one might deal with complexity or dissect the cycle, or of all the linear elements one might identify and analytical approaches which one might apply. It is instead an illustration that such...
- White papers 2005-05-16
- The Landscape of Management: Creating the Context for Understanding Social Complexity
- This paper seeks to establish a model in which complexity can be positioned in the context of other management disciplines, in such a way as to effectively communicate to executives in industry and their equivalents in government the importance of applying complexity thinking. It also seeks to differentiate what is...
- White papers 2005-07-29
- Routines, Rules and Patterns of Behaviour in the Context of Emergence
- Establishing the basis of the re-foundations of economics as an evolutionary thought, one has to recognised that the questions presented by Schumpeter and Nelson and Winter are more relevant than ever. However, as economic organisations have been showing an increasing degree of complexity, it has become more and more difficult...
- White papers 2001-06-01
- Towards New Modes of Decision Making - Complexity and Human Factors
- This paper will discuss an approach to understanding decision making processes through considering the combination of specific psychological issues with general ideas of complexity. The context is team decision making in commercial and industrial contexts. The complexity of such a situation is twofold. On the one hand, there is the...
- White papers 2003-08-29
- An in Vivo MRI Study of Prefrontal Cortical Complexity in First-Episode Psychosis
- The purpose of this article was to investigate abnormalities in the surface complexity of the prefrontal cortex and in the hemispheric asymmetry of cortical complexity in first-episode patients with schizophrenia. It concludes that an abnormal pattern of asymmetry in the prefrontal cortex of first-episode patients with schizophrenia provides evidence for...
- White papers 2005-01-01
- Structural Inertia and Organizational Change Revisited II: Complexity, Opacity and Change
- This paper extends a formal theory of structural aspects of organizational change. This analysis focuses on the implications of limited foresight of the cascades of consequences of architectural changes. Foresight is generally limited by complexity defined with respect to calculative capacity of the actors and opacity (defined with respect to...
- White papers 2002-04-01
- Mastering Complexity In Global Manufacturing
- This article explains the trend of complexity in global manufacturing and new mandate for mastering value chain complexity. It takes into account drivers of global value chain dispersion and the impact of dispersion. The various steps that could be taken to avoid the complexity include synchronizing customer, product and supply...
- White papers 2003-01-01
Additional Resources
- Even the IRS is concerned about the complexity of the tax law.
- Even the IRS is concerned about the complexity of the tax law. The '98 IRS restructuring law required the Service to report to Congress on ways to reduce the overall complexity of the current income tax code. Three areas are most in need of simplific Even...
- Research articles 2000-07-21
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