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Visualizing work processes

Visualizing work processes

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Visualizing work processes

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- [Instructor] Blink number five. Visualizing work processes allows for quicker troubleshooting and stronger employee motivation. These days, you often hear people claiming to be visual thinkers. Well, the truth is that we all are. Pictures and charts are great aides for understanding abstract situations and concepts. And that's where visual management comes in. This strategy employs a combination of simple visual tools to provide information on working processes. Visual management helps identify problems and makes it easier to maintain standards. When a manager makes her rounds, she doesn't have the time to play detective and look for hidden problems. Instead, visual tools will provide her with all the essential information. You can use symbols to indicate where a worker has to stand. If the manager walks through the Gemba and sees that the worker isn't at his place, she'll know that there's something wrong.…

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