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The level of complexity in most organizations today is staggering-and it''s only getting worse. There are so many choices to be made, people to involve, processes to manage, and facts to analyze, it''s impossible to get things done. And in today''s hypercompetitive world, that can be fatal.

Yet complexity doesn''t happen on its own. Managers unwittingly create it, often through well-intended decisions. In Simply Effective, Ron Ashkenas provides a playbook for regaining control, focused on the four major causes of complexity:

-Constant changes in organizational structures
-Proliferation of products and services
-Evolution of business processes
-Time-wasting managerial behaviors

The author provides a diagnostic for identifying how these causes of complexity are affecting your organization-and presents practical tactics for combating each one.

Ashkenas also explains how to craft a strategy that will make simplification an ongoing driver of your c

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      Publisher Harvard Business Review Press
      Published 1 August 2009
      ISBN-13 9781422181140
      978-1422181140
      ISBN-10 1422181146

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The level of complexity in most organizations today is staggering-and it''s only getting worse. There are so many choices to be made, people to involve, processes to manage, and facts to analyze, it''s impossible to get things done. And in today''s hypercompetitive world, that can be fatal.

      Yet complexity doesn''t happen on its own. Managers unwittingly create it, often through well-intended decisions. In Simply Effective, Ron Ashkenas provides a playbook for regaining control, focused on the four major causes of complexity:

      -Constant changes in organizational structures
      -Proliferation of products and services
      -Evolution of business processes
      -Time-wasting managerial behaviors

      The author provides a diagnostic for identifying how these causes of complexity are affecting your organization-and presents practical tactics for combating each one.

      Ashkenas also explains how to craft a strategy that will make simplification an ongoing driver of your c

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