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November 5, 2009 from Forbes – “Minimalist design has been in vogue for decades. But when did we become enamored of the stripped-down business practice? When did business really start to leverage the power of less?

Google has led the way here. Remember the first time you landed on that spare, slightly dorky page, with just a multicolor logo and an empty box? We take it for granted now, but at the time it was revolutionary; every other search portal was competing to cram as many links, categories, ads and blinking gifs into 800×1200 pixels as it could…

But the art of less got a significant boost since economic conditions deteriorated, and less became the one thing we all had plenty of. In the best case scenarios, creative “power of less” responses to dramatic budget cuts have resulted in outcomes much better than the status quo, especially when technology was leveraged…”

180 View – When assisting organizations with software selection, the tendency for most organizations is to create a substantial list of requirements. We ask our clients to prioritize the requirements so as to just focus on the most important ones. We ask the vendors to just respond to the high priority items. It’s our way of doing more with less by nailing the most important requirements and not getting bogged down with less important requirements.

As well, when designing the to-be businss process, it’s a good idea to keep it simple if possible. This is a huge challenge for organizations with multiple profit centres each with their own unique way of doing things. If the profit centres could share the same business processes, you also achieve more with less.