IMB Innovation Team
Every organization accumulates work that once served a purpose and no longer does. The Elimination Project finds it, evaluates it, and eliminates it — so our people can spend their time on the mission, not the paperwork.
Submit Something to Eliminate See the Decision LogHow This Works
We apply design thinking to every requirement, form, meeting, and report. If it doesn't earn its place, it goes.
Anyone can submit something that feels like admin burden — a report nobody reads, a training that duplicates another, a form that asks for what we already have. No gatekeeping. No blame.
An elimination team examines each item through four lenses: What are we doing? Why are we doing it? What outcome do we want? What problem are we solving? If we can't answer clearly, that's a signal.
We eliminate, consolidate, modify, or keep — and we publish the reasoning. Every decision is traceable. Nothing gets killed in a back room; nothing survives by inertia.
The Philosophy
Organizations default to adding. New initiative, new report, new meeting, new training — all well-intentioned, all pilled on top of what came before. Nobody's job is to remove.
This project makes removal somebody's job. Because every hour our teams spend on admin burden that doesn't serve the mission is an hour not spent on the mission itself. That math compounds — across thousands of people, over years.
If you're reading this and thinking of something that wastes time and doesn't clearly serve the mission — submit it. The worst case is we look at it and decide to keep it. The best case is we free up a piece of your week.