Growth and Innovation Stream

How Simplicity & Simplification (S+S) Leadership are winning in a Complex World

Overview

The Simple Truth about Leadership Success, “Simplify & Make Simple”” 

Culture of CX + (S+S) - Instigate Innovation & Growth - Leading by S+S - Crafting the Action

Four main issues we will address and answer, throughout Simplicity + Simplification (S+S) talk:

1. Why we all contributed to complexity and what will it take to make it simple?

a. Short examples, Aldi, Amazon, Cloud Solutions.

2. How do you ensure that real innovation and growth works within your corporate ecosystem? 

a. Lessons learned from SAP. 

3. How to lead and design a culture of “simple and simplified” strategic experiences?

a. Dos and don’ts and what is organization barrier for S+S.

b. Samsung as an example.

4. How to craft your corporate action plan to win with S+S strategy?

Leadership and ability to adapt and change will define your corporate future. “In this complex world, the success stories almost always include simplicity as a leverage tool to growth, amazing Employee & Customer Experience, Design and Innovation Enablement. 

Companies such as Aldi, Netflix, SAP, Amazon, Tesco, BMW are winning or regaining growth due to their leadership strategic S+S focus. They got the basics – getting from point A to point B – was a straight line of successes and growth. Now from point B to point C, will be a different story.

What you will get when you attend

• It will help lead your organization into simplicity and simplification S+S strategic models and mindset; benefiting employees’ performance, productivity, and generating real innovation. It helps companies to craft a much sharper human-centric strategic focus, whether they are stakeholders on c suite, employees, partners or customers.
• When people lose focus and companies create unnecessary procedures, process, methods and work, they will rarely achieve the level of results necessary to outperform competitors, retain customers and employees and outperform human expectation. This presentation will help you to address those issues within your organization in a practical manner.
• The focus should be on employee engagement, change adaptability and enablement with your practices, process, and adequate ecosystems for your business. If there is too much chaos in the workplace, there is no satisfaction, productivity and results. Too much chaos prevents real innovation, design, engagement, creativity and growth. Therefore, this is the time for change.
• Until organizations transform what seems unchangeable or problematic, their “culture of complexity," --which often is self-inflicted, as a result organizations will develop in slow pace.
• Defining the simplicity strategy, with a clear and sharp long-term vision, action plan, changing control practices, decision-making process, multilayers hierarchic as measuring outcomes, are an initial form of starting to reignite your talent and customers toward successful outcomes.
• We will discuss how to get S+S right. We will share ideas about how to start the S+S journey and execute on it, to create a more vibrant, meaningful and simplified strategy, which often leads to enhanced satisfaction, purpose, loyalty and generates growth.
• In this complex world, the success stories almost always include simplicity as a leverage tool to growth in Employee, Customer Experience, Design and Innovation Enablement. Companies such as Aldi, Netflix, SAP, Amazon, Tesco, BMW are winning or regaining growth due to their strategic S+S focus. They got the basics-- getting from point A to point B-- was a straight line of successes and growth. Now from point B to point C, will be a different story.

Simply put simplification in your strategic road map, and ensure customer experience success, real innovation, retention as well as maximized revenue and share value.
Ricardo Saltz Gulko

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Overview

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Detail

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Overview

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Detail

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