Friday, September 21, 2018

The Monthly Summary: “Simplicity” as the Key Word of the Digital Era Sep. 2018

Getting to simple is not easy for most people because they don't bother to remove the dust around them or want to question the unknown.

Logically, simplifying the complicated thing is an optimal and smart choice, to make progress either for designing products, solving problems, or managing an organization. With simplicity, what we are adding is clarity and purpose. Keep in mind, in today’s complex world, in the core of simplicity lies complexity, the more simple one perceives in any system, problem or living being is inherently more complex. Here is a set of featured blogs to dig into “SIMPLICITY” -the “keywords” of the 21st century to brainstorming the future of digital leadership.


“Simplicity” as the Key Word of the Digital Age


The Multiple Perspectives of Digital Simplicity As the saying is going, simplicity is the optimal level of complexity. Logically, simplifying the complicated thing is an optimal and smart choice, to make the business progress either for designing products, solving problems, or managing a high mature digital organization. Simplicity is a behavioral attitude to see things as and what and where they are and be content and cool as it is. Take a close look at simplicity from different management lenses,

Three Ways to Pursue Simplicity “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” ― Leonardo da Vinci Either from architectural design, engineering discipline or management perspectives, simplicity means or is related to too many things such as manageability, availability, scalability, flexibility, reliability, robustness, sensitivity, comprehensiveness, speed, responsiveness, etc. And like many things, there is good simplicity and bad simplicity; good complexity and bad complexity;...

Three Questions to Assess a Person’s “Simplicity” Skill Innovation is progress, and progress is in simplicity. People are complex by nature, but to dwell on complexity is to complicate an implicate order that is naturally simple. Getting to simple is not easy for most people because they rather follow the traditions and set rules and regulations in the society. They don't bother to remove the dust around them or want to question the unknown, or challenge the status quo, out of fear. However, progress...

How to Apply Simplicity Principle in Change Management Change is simply a shift from the “Old Way - Chaos - New Way.” Simplicity is a behavioral attitude to see things as and what and where they are and be content and cool as it is. Philosophically, simplicity is the source of complication, and complications are the source of simplicity. Often human cannot live the life with simplicity and keep making it complicated. So does Change Management. Can we make change simpler? A successful change requires...

Simplicity as a Principle: Simplicity is a behavioral attitude to see things as and what and where they are and be content and cool as it is. People are complex by nature, but to dwell on complexity is to complicate an implicate order that is naturally simple. Getting to simple is not easy for most people because they rather follow the traditions and set rules and regulations in the society. They don't bother to remove the dust around them or want to question the unknown

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