Author: Yves Morieux, Peter Tollman, Harvard Business Review Press

What: A new approach to complexity in organizations, based on “smart simplicity”

Why it is important:  It is easy to answer to the world’s increasing complexity by more “complicatedness” in organisations. Reviewing the organisations from IADS’ members and their evolution in the 2021 White Paper is a living proof of this easy temptation. The authors argue that actually, it is possible to achieve more, and better, by simplifying the structures, based on the knowledge that every human behaviour has a strategy. Understanding and leveraging this strategy is therefore crucial in order to simplify organisations.

Six Simple Rules, how to manage complexity without getting complicated