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Simplicity ToolkitThe One Question

We Must Constantly AskSAP 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...

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Percentage of work that’sdone within a team.Increasingly done virtually

140 Not just Twitter’s character count.The character count of manypeople’s attention span!

3of5 Top time-wasters, top sources ofwork complexity: 3 of top 5 areassociated with communication

2to4 Average person is losing 2-4 hoursper day due to unclear, cluttered,non-useful communication

500 On average: Information is doublingwithin every company aboutevery 500 days

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If you printed out all the info theaverage employee gets every day:325 pages.The average amount they needto do their job every day:5 pages.Most are spending a lot of their dayfiguring out which 5 pages matter

1440 The number of minutes in every day.The challenge: That’s finite and fixedand the amount of stuff coming at uskeeps growing.Most are managing this problem bya) stealing time from what truly mattersb) 140 or less: paying less and lessattention to everything they receive


YOUR TEAMMATES


All your projects, meetings, training, presentations,emails, events, rules, tools, processes and all the rest that

makes your business run...

Are you designing those thingsbased on your teammates’realities? Are you beinguser-centered?

WORKDAYSIMPLICITY

Or: Are you designingall those things from

a corporate-centeredperspective?

WORKDAYCOMPLEXITY


YOUR TEAMMATES


ABOUT

Mr. SimplicityTHE 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 EinsteinThree Rules of Work

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