This document summarizes tools and insights from The Jensen Group on organizational simplicity. It is segmented into three areas of focus: research on organizational and leadership simplicity, and personal and team simplicity. The Jensen Group has partnered with SAP to provide these documents and help companies address issues like overwhelmed employees and increasing workplace complexity.

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Simplicity Toolkit
The One Question
We Must Constantly Ask
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 three areas of focus...
Research Organizational
and
Leadership
Simplicity
Personal and
Team
Simplicity

2. 1440
500
3of5 2to4
325
51: Gartner Research 2—5: Jensen Group’s ongoing study, Search for a Simpler Way 2014: Deloitte declared THE OVERWHELMED EMPLOYEE to be one of 12 Urgent Global Trends that must be addressed
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5
140or
less
Their DayBY THE NUMBERS
YOUR TEAMMATES
80%
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80%>
or
less
Percentage of work that’s
done within a team.
Increasingly done virtually
140 Not just Twitter’s character count.
The character count of many
people’s attention span!
3of5 Top time-wasters, top sources of
work complexity: 3 of top 5 are
associated with communication
2to4 Average person is losing 2-4 hours
per day due to unclear, cluttered,
non-useful communication
500 On average: Information is doubling
within every company about
every 500 days
325:
5
If you printed out all the info the
average employee gets every day:
325 pages.
The average amount they need
to do their job every day:
5 pages.
Most are spending a lot of their day
figuring out which 5 pages matter
1440 The number of minutes in every day.
The challenge: That’s finite and fixed
and the amount of stuff coming at us
keeps growing.
Most are managing this problem by
a) stealing time from what truly matters
b) 140 or less: paying less and less
attention to everything they receive
Their DayBY THE NUMBERS
YOUR TEAMMATES

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All your projects, meetings, training, presentations,
emails, events, rules, tools, processes and all the rest that
makes your business run...
Are you designing those things
based on your teammates’
realities? Are you being
user-centered?
WORKDAY
SIMPLICITY
Or: Are you designing
all those things from
a corporate-centered
perspective?
WORKDAY
COMPLEXITY
Their DayBY THE NUMBERS
YOUR TEAMMATES

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(973) 539-5070 www.simplerwork.com
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