Pareto at organisational scale
The 80:20 principle is the most quoted concept in modern management. At organisational scale, Pareto becomes a filter for structural selection.
The 20% rule
In every business, a core of activities, people and decisions, about 20% of the effort, generates 80% of the net value. The remaining 80% adds little value and a great deal of operational complexity.
Business architecture leaves the noise aside and deliberately concentrates the structure on the core of value. A high-performance structure is built on the discipline of devoting resources exclusively to the activities that belong to this core.