The only guiding principle you can use is to make something that you want to see.
Everything that we (will) shape/create at the Uxolo Solutions' Lab, must be designed with the following principles.
- Always seek simplicity - both when creating a solution for our customer and internally in our processes.
- Is this process efficient enough?
- Does the customer really need that extra feature?
- If a feature is removed, will the end result be better or same?
- Is this specific rule or logic helping our business or hindering progress?
- Is this feature absolutely required? Does the customer absolutely need it for a better outcome?
We should always fervently question adding new layers of complexity.
- Speed of adapting new ways within our current workflow - we should always question our current systems/processes, and keep figuring out the most suitable ways to accomplish a task with more effectiveness.
- We should be resilient and aim to provide resilient solutions.
Resilience means we have the capacity and fortitude to recover quickly from any difficult moment.
- Don't re-invent the wheel. Make use of an eclectic approach.
Eclectic means deriving inspiration for ideas and insights from various sources so that we are essentially picking the best to mould a new improved end-result (the resulting sum of different good parts), with our own touch - The Uxolo way-of-doing!
- As far as possible, try to follow a Rhizome philosophy and the concept of mutualism
This means that when we create new solutions, we should aim to make them interconnected, but approaching a point where each solution benefits at the "expense" of the other - with one or more of them forming the core of the sum total.
This list is not the be all end all. We should aim to make small meaningful periodic updates as we progress on our journey to better reflect our Purpose, Mission, Vision and Values.