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The Complexity Challenge: Why you need to simplify your business and how to go about doing it. Professor Simon Collinson and Melvin Jay. If you’d like to attend please contact Gethin Tasker gethin.tasker@simplicitypartnership.com Telephone +44(0) 20 7042 8400 Date 14th June Time 9.30 – 13.00 Location. The business centre, Green Park. 100 Longwater Ave, Reading.RG9 [...]

M&A activity is a major driver of business complexity: Our academic research has proven this beyond all doubt. But equally M&A activity is a potential driver of shareholder value: So we are not going to stop doing it! The trick is to avoid as much complexity appearing as possible We provide some rules/guidelines you MUST [...]

Your leaders must believe in simplicity, if they don’t believe then no one else will either. Some of your leadership team may not believe that simplicity is a good thing or necessary. If this is the case you will need to align the leadership team and get everyone to agree that a simpler organisation is [...]

Print the image below and use it to spot (and stop!) complexity causing behaviours at your next meeting

Professor Simon Collinson, research director of Simplicity and professor of international business and innovation at Henley Business School, is featured in the Guardian discussing public sector complexity. To read the full article click here. To read the Public Sector Complexity Review click here.