Description
Book SynopsisAs organisations of all sizes become increasingly digitalised, a core management challenge remains unresolved. The ability to successfully and sustainably connect the stated vision of an organisation with its strategic plans and, in turn, with the reported reality of day-to-day operations, is largely an elusive ambition, despite the many stated advantages provided by contemporary technologies. In this book, the case is made for visual management as a method of communications, planning, learning and reporting that connects the organisation in a single, meaningful and seamless way.
Throughout this book, visual management is theorised around the position that all forms of management documentation are an artefact of human construction and of the organisation itself that reflect learned patterns of activity. The book places visual management as a more intuitive and seamless method of coordinating, learning and communicating across an organisation than more traditional formats of p
Table of Contents
List of figures
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1. Introduction: what is visual management?
2. A short history of the long evolution towards visual management
3. A theory of visual management
4. The current state of play in visual management (and the tyranny of corporate dashboards)
5. New views on the organisation: finding patterns in messy data through the wisdom of the crowd
6. Building blocks for practical visual management: tools and a typology of visualisation techniques
7. Creating a learning organisation: applying people-focused visual management
8. Maintaining the primacy of vision in a data-informed era
List of references cited
Index
