Have you introduced Lean or a form of continuous improvement where you are? Do you have a performance board/hub/short interval control board or anything else that you call the place you visualise your teams process performance. If so, do you know how effective it is?

Answer the following 9 questions in relation to your visual management to see if you can improve on it?

1) What is the purpose of the team?
2) What do the customers need from the output the team/business produce?
3) How does the visual management support the above two questions?

4) How effective does the team plan?
5) How does the team perform against this plan?
6) How does the visual management visualise the above 2 questions?

7) What things get in the way of the team producing their outputs?
8 ) What are the team doing about the above obstructions?
9) How does the visual management highlight the above 2 questions?

How did you do? Did you identify any further opportunities to improve your visual management? Is so, give them a go.

Also have a look at our GIVE model this is the DNA that makes up our methodology. GIVE MODEL

On with the improvement

Lee