Episode Forty - Simplify, then add lightness…

The late Colin Chapman, founder of Lotus eschewed the pursuit of horsepower in favor of lightness combined with better handling across his road and race vehicles.<br /><br />That courage to buck the trend resulted in numerous accolades on both sides of the Atlantic.<br /><br />It is that ethos our industry should once again embrace.<br /><br />Simplify:<br />The interfaces, the barriers to entry, the integration, deployment and overall management of the plethora of technology we eagerly buy, deploy, and then complain about.<br /><br />Lightness:<br />Adding power is great if you are going in a straight line, however, leave the power alone, remove the complexity, and unnecessary features (the rule of 90%) and reduce the amount of time you have to fettle over the technology.<br /><br />How well do your tools integrate?<br />How much unnecessary overlap do you have?<br />How much of that tool do you REALLY use?<br />How many hands does it take to run?<br />Do you maintain it?<br />Etc.<br /><br />Start measuring vendors, technologies and PEOPLE by how well they help you simplify, then that should add some lightness across the board.<br /><br />Join Evan Francen, Ryan Cloutier, Rachel Arnold and I as we unpack this tonight on the Shit Show…<br /><br />‘all for now<br />Chris