With almost 30,000 people working across a wide range of platforms and services, its no wonder the BBC is a complex place. But there are ways to simplify our operations. In the coming months, we'll announce some tangible ways to cut through the bureaucracy, including:

• Develop a strategy to use technology more imaginatively and systematically support programme-making and business processes
• Re-examine how money and decisions flow through the BBC it's currently far too complicated
• Devise a real process to prioritise better, focusing on the things that really add value to licence-payers, not trying to do everything, eliminating tasks, processes and paperwork to free people up to concentrate on the things that matter more
• Have clearer and stronger systems of editorial and financial control but with less second-guessing and double- checking
• Take a hard look at leadership in the BBC being clear what we expect of our managers; rewarding people for excellent leadership and sound management building on the work begun by Making it Happen
• By December 2005, the results of the Creative Future project with an editorial strategy for the coming decade and turning the ideas we set out in Building Public Value into reality