The document discusses a Simplicity Toolkit provided by SAP in partnership with The Jensen Group, which is an expert in organizational simplicity. The toolkit contains documents in three areas: research on organizational and leadership simplicity, personal and team simplicity, and corporate-centered vs. user-centered design. It emphasizes that for true simplicity, corporate rules and processes must consider what individuals need just as much as corporate efficiency, as everything is constantly being disrupted. It also contains a brief biography of Bill Jensen, the CEO of The Jensen Group, whose mission is to make work easier.

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Simplicity Toolkit
Five Simple Rules
for Corporate Rules, Tools and Processes
SAP has partnered with The Jensen Group, the premier expert on organizational simplicity
to provide you with some of their tools and insights
These documents are segmented into one of three areas of focus...
Research Organizational
and
Leadership
Simplicity
Personal and
Team
Simplicity

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If you truly want simplicity...
CORPORATE-CENTERED DESIGN
Every hour, dollar, and ounce of energy
and focus that is expended ensuring
that your rules, tools and processes
help make the organization more efficient
and effective in meeting its goals and
in mitigating risks...
Must be matched with the same amount
of hours, dollars, energy, focus,
studying and designing for what individuals
want and need to be their best.
For most organizations:
Training and development, process design,
rules, tools and all of IT infrastructure still
lag way behind in this 50/50 match.
USER-CENTERED DESIGN
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RULE

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If you truly want simplicity...ᕤ
Why is this so crucial?
Because everything everywhere
is being disrupted hourly.
Every rule and process you
design to manage things or
to mitigate risks will be
outdated before it is launched
and causing tons of complexity
for those who must implement
those rules and processes.

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All Corporate-Built IT Tools and Infrastructure
Once the user only two taps
is in the tool/app, to do anything
it should take them they want to do
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ABOUT
Mr. Simplicity
THE BIO OF A SIMPLETON
Bill Jensen makes it easier to do great work.
He teaches companies and teams to succeed by doubling their productivity while also pursuing their passions.
Bill has spent the past two decades studying how work gets done. (Much of what he’s found horrifies him.)
He is an internationally-acclaimed author and speaker who is known for provocative ideas,
extremely useful content, and his passion for making it easier for everyone to work smarter.
His first book, Simplicity, was the Number 5 Leadership/Management book on Amazon in 2000.
His latest books, The Courage Within Us and Disrupt! Think Epic, Be Epic reveal the secrets of success
in bold ideas and unleashing your own greatness. His next book is on The Future of Work.
Bill is CEO of The Jensen Group, whose mission is: To make it easier to do great work.
Among the Jensen Group’s clients are Bank of America, GE, NASA, the US Navy SEALS,
BBC, Philips Lighting, Chevron, the government of Ontario, Pfizer, Merck, L’Oréal Italia,
Johnson&Johnson, Guangzhou China Development District, and the Swedish Post Office.
Bill's personal life fantasy is to bicycle around the globe via breweries.
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1. Out of clutter, find simplicity
2. From discord, find harmony
3. In the middle of difficulty lies
opportunity
Albert Einstein
Three Rules of Work