We make life complicated
We add new products, new services, extra checks and balances. It is easy to do. Somebody wants it.
But we rarely take things away, remove services, cut stock keeping units, rationalise organisation structures. That is hard to do. Nobody wants it.
Unfortunately all that complexity is, well, complicated; and consequently expensive. How do you get rid of it?
The Soviets had the answer:
At a Communist Party Conference in 1936 Vladimir Kabaidze, (then General Director of Ivanovo Machine Works) is alleged to have said:
“I can’t stand this proliferation of paperwork. It’s useless to fight the forms. You’ve got to kill the people producing them.”
How’s that for an idea? Streamline your process and no need for a redundancy programme.
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