Simplicity and the post COVID world

It doesn't exist.

To put it in more exact terms: we shouldn't search for what is easy to today. Especially today. If it's easy, so be it.

The question

How can this be applied to your organization?

Ease into simplicity: complexity

Algorithms

In the computer world, we are used to the term: algorithmic complexity.

In a nutshell, it is the study of how "hard" a program is on the computer. Going deeper, it has beautiful concepts such as Big Delta and Big Omega.

We both understood what Algorithmic Complexity is without me going into the details.

This is how I define simplicity.

Post COVID world

Let's see how this simplicity can be applied

Keep your vision

Vision should not be altered easily.

I believe that vision should not be altered because of a change in the process used.

Change your strategy

In the education sector, we have been hearing: "This digital age is stopping kids from learning"

Object.

In reality, What is being taught is not as relevant today and the How is still novel.

Today, we don't really need to store information in our brains. We need the skill to use it.

This is under discovery: how do we really upskill our people in this disruptive age?

Fun fact: Did you know that Plato wrote an argument against writing? He argued that it made people more forgetful.

Change your process

The book Simplicity, Edward de Bono (1990), is "the classic work about making the complicated simple". He argues that breaking down a complex problem into simpler ones and then tackling them. You can - and are encouraged to - use a different approach to arrive to the same goal.

One example grabbed my attention: Find alternative methods

What is harder to do:

• add all the numbers from 1 to 10
• add all the numbers from 1 to 100?

At a first glance, it might seem that the clear answer is the first. If we use the intuitive way of adding the numbers sequentially, the second is 10 times slower than the first.

Let's use a different way:

In math, there is an equation that makes them both the same speed to compute.

Applying this example to a more concrete case:

Are cars necessary to achieve mobility? Can we keep fit without the gym? Is electricity always created from burning material? How can we make sustainable energy more than just a poetic thought?

Best,

Chadi Abi Fadel