TY  - CONF
TI  - Visual Management Implementation Strategy: An Analysis of Digital Whiteboards
C1  - Lille, France
C3  - Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC31)
SP  - 608
EP  - 619
PY  - 2023
DO  - 10.24928/2023/0264
AU  - Pedó, Bárbara
AU  - Tezel, Algan
AU  - Koskela, Lauri
AU  - Tzortzopoulos, Patricia
AU  - Formoso, Carlos Torres
AU  - Vrabie, Elena
AU  - Robinson, Stuart
AD  - Ph.D. Student, Innovative Design Lab (IDL), University of Huddersfield, and Lean Manager at Arcadis,  United Kingdom (UK), barbara.pedo2@hud.ac.uk, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6520-0981
AD  - Associate Professor, Civil Engineering and Management, University of Nottingham, UK,  algan.tezel@nottingham.ac.uk, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3903-6126
AD  - Professor, IDL, University of Huddersfield, UK, l.koskela@hud.ac.uk, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4449-2281
AD  - Professor, IDL, University of Huddersfield, UK, p.tzortzopoulos@hud.ac.uk, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8740- 6753
AD  - Professor, Building Innovation Research Unit (NORIE), Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil,  formoso@ufrgs.br, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4772-3746 
AD  - Senior Technical Director, Country Digital and Automation Lead, Arcadis, UK, elena.vrabie@arcadis.com,  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0854-6484
AD  - Technical Director, Arcadis, UK, stuart.robinson@arcadis.com, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5350-6281
AB  - Visual Management (VM) is a communication strategy in which a visual workplace for closerange communication is created by using easy-to-understand sensory devices. It is adopted to increase process transparency and self-management capacity. VM discussions have been mostly device-centred to date, being concerned with the development of new devices, or understanding the impact of different VM attributes for different purposes. Explorations of VM as a strategy have been limited. This paper outlines the key elements of one part of an overall VM strategy, namely the implementation strategy (i.e., planning, introducing, executing, monitoring, and controlling, maintaining, and improving, and removing). It is based on an empirical study on the use of a specific type of VM device (i.e., digital whiteboards) at an infrastructure engineering design and consultancy company in the UK. The main sources of evidence were surveys with key representatives of the company and participant observation in the development and implementation of the device. Findings indicate that adopting VM through a systematic implementation strategy with coherent plans and actions is important to enable its successful application. Moreover, some future research opportunities are pointed out, such as to expand and evaluate the definitions proposed, and to test them in different contexts and device types. 
KW  - Visual Management
KW  - Strategy
KW  - Digital Whiteboards
KW  - Lean
KW  - Design Management.
PB  - 
T2  - Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC31)
DA  - 2023/06/26
CY  - Lille, France
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2188/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2188
N1  - Export Date: 24 April 2025
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -