When lookingĪt how to improve products or services we are almost inevitably lookingįor ways to make those products more complex. This is a lesson we should bear in mind when innovating. Ingredients and careful preparation rather than an excess of ingredients Simple, but tasty chocolate cake – probably focusing on quality Will mean reducing the number of suggested ingredients and devising a One way or another, the group needs to keep their cake simple and that Take all day to make and will almost certainly taste terrible. Into a culinary disaster which will require a supermarket full of ingredients, In the shape of a turkey (to mark the US Thanksgiving holiday which isĬoming up), roasting the cake over an open fire, and so on.īefore you know it, the simple chocolate cake you began making is turning Layers of strawberry jam, shredded carrots on the top, making the cake Meanwhile others suggest peanut-butter frosting, adding coconut flakes, You begin to compile the recipe with ingredients like: flour, sugar, eggs,īaker's chocolate, etc, when a team member says: “let's add walnuts.Īnd another team member suggests: “why don't we give it a whippedĬream centre? I had a chocolate cake last week with a whipped cream centreĪnd it was probably the best chocolate cake I've ever had.” Cake, for Exampleįor example, let us imagine your team wants to make a chocolate cake. Product more expensive to purchase and maintain and they will offer no They willĪdd complexity to the design of the project, they will make the finished However, many of those proposed features will prove useless. As a result, the design must become increasinglyĬomplex in order so support all the proposed features. But, as more people become involved, they all want toĪdd features to the concept. When new ideas are at the drawing board, they are often simple,Įlegant concepts. And if you have ever watched a project evolveįrom concept to design to implementation, you will understand the importance One of the underlying maxims of engineering is that of KISS, an acronymįor “Keep It Simple, Stupid” or, as I prefer: “Keep KISS: Keep Innovation Simple, Sweetheart By Jeffrey Baumgartner
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