Management 2.0: SIE, strip away the dross

The line, 'The immersive experience needs to be additive, not subtractive,' has held many a board meeting in good stead. Whether client or customer, engagement has signified keeping the consumer at the centre of the process, with more elements in the experiential process being peddled as a premium quality. But, dear exec, what if the future of management - the fine art of managing, lest one forgets - lies not in adding more, but in subtracting, actually aggressively deleting the clutter that has turned business into sensory theme parks of PPP slides and motivational jingles?

Subtractive immersive experience (SIE) is the noise-cancellation headphone for the boardroom and strategy meetings. Enter a quarterly review where, instead of being assaulted by holographic pie charts and augmented reality graphs, you are enveloped in basic rat-a-tat-tat. The numbers are still there, but stripped away of all dross. This is immersion of the dip and go kind. Compositionally, SIE is elegant: it removes excess stimuli, corporate karaoke, all that 'synergy fireworks' that explode every time someone says 'pivot'. For consultants, this means selling your clients the value of experiential minimalism, the precious function of stripping away inputs that don't matter or pointlessly mutter. As a company, you gain by the lightning bolt that such dextrous lightening brings.