Business Chief Europe Magazine December 2018 | Page 53

talking about quality and cost improvements and why they matter – before , I was worrying about processes .
“ We ’ ve abandoned nearly all the internal reporting – with the OKR system , and daily reports that show the KPIs that come out , it ’ s so much simpler and there ’ s less red tape . The whole mantra is around simplicity – trying to achieve something in a quarter is the simplest way to move it forward . People get rid of the big , complex ideas and brainstorm how to do things in a more complex way . We celebrate that at Spreadshirt . In the past , we thought things were clever if they were complex ,” Rooke adds , “ But actually if someone can work out how to make something complex much simpler – that ’ s the cleverest thing .”
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