Simplify to Amplify
Complexity usually builds up one reasonable step at a time. Over two days, we identify where it is getting in the way and redesign a real process with your team.
Duration2 days
ScopeTeam or business unit
DeliveryOn site preferred
Applied workLive process rebuild
You leave with
- A simplified workflow prototype, built in the room
- Develop your simplification profile
- Upskilling in simplification techniques, including AI tools
- A before-and-after map of the process you rebuilt
- A practical method your team can use to simplify other processes
What’s included
Two days,
Two days,
in full.
The overall structure stays consistent, but we tailor the examples and exercises around your team and the pre-work interviews.
How it accumulates
Friction layers
Decision design
Live simplification
Day one
Where the complexity came from
Day one looks at how complexity has built up, where it creates friction and what it is costing the team.
- How complexity accumulates
- Identifying friction layers
- Simplifying decisions and approvals
Day two
Taking it back out
Day two is practical. We take a real process, simplify it with the team and turn the approach into something you can use again.
- Practical simplification principles
- Reducing unnecessary effort and cognitive load
- Live process simplification
Built for
these teams.
If you are not sure whether the program fits, we can work that through with you.
Who it’s for
- Business units where simple work now requires multiple systems or hand-offs
- Teams with approval chains that have grown over time
- Operations leaders dealing with slower work despite similar staffing levels
- Managing multiple compliance obligations that impact productivity
What you
leave with.
A simplified workflow prototype and a practical approach your team can reuse.
By the end, your team can
- Assess whether each step in a process is still necessary and worth the effort
- Simplify areas of complexity while keeping the control they are meant to provide
- Redesign decision points so the preferred action is clear and easy to take
The other
three.
Design for Humans
Build practical capability to design systems, processes and environments around how people actually work.
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Team Identity Lab
Agree how the team wants to work together and the behaviours they expect from each other.
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AI Ready
Decide where AI is useful, where it is not, and what needs to be in place to use it well.
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