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Simplifying Life With iSimplify
Novartis Malaysia embarks on improving internal work process to achieve its sparkling productivity record. For a big company, simplification is extremely complex as it has to cut down so many layers of bureaucracy. Hence, Novartis Malaysia began iSimplify in 2016 by asking the employees to take ownership of simplification, and everyone has to do his or her part.
- Best Practices Type Infographics
- Industry Services
- Company Name Novartis Malaysia
- Geographical Selangor
The Quest to Simplify Work Processes
“Many employees complain about increasing bureaucracy in their respective companies but few manage to tackle the issue. At Novartis Malaysia, we are happy that we found a solution for this problem through our iSimplify initiative. The initiative simplified at least 83 processes and our target is to simplify 100 processes by end of this year.” Dr Joshi Venugopal, President & Managing Director, Novartis Malaysia.
- Best Practices Type Case Studies
- Industry Services
- Company Name NOVARTIS MALAYSIA
- Geographical Selangor
September 10, 2018, The Edge Malaysia - Skyworld Practices Bottom-Up Decision-Making
SkyWorld Development Sdn Bhd Believes in empowering its employees and does so by letting them make important decisions. According to founder and managing director Datuk Ng Thien Phing, the company has a bottom-up decision-making policy, where 80% of the internal decisions are made by the employees rather than management. This enables its employees to voice out their opinions, decide on actions to take and lead initiatives.
- Best Practices Type Newsclips
- Industry Construction
- Company Name SkyWorld Development Sdn Bhd
- Geographical Kuala Lumpur
September 10, 2018, The Edge Malaysia - For Agilent, Building Trust is Key
Agilent has an open-door policy. All employees have direct access to all the managers. There are free to share their ideas, voice their concerns or speak out on new things they feel are not aligned to the company. Every quarter, the managers sit down with their teams to discuss the key challenges they face. The managers evaluate the feedback and design training programmes that can address those issues.
- Best Practices Type Newsclips
- Industry Manufacturing
- Company Name Agilent Technologies LDA Malaysia
- Geographical Selangor