TY  - CONF
TI  - An Exploratory Study on Visual Management and Process Transparency in Construction
C1  - Auckland, New Zealand
C3  - Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 32)
SP  - 560
EP  - 571
PY  - 2024
DO  - 10.24928/2024/0200
AU  - Neyra, Mauricio
AU  - Diaz, Michelle
AU  - Gomez, Sulyn
AD  - Graduate Researcher, Faculty of Civil Engineering, National University of Engineering, Lima, Peru, mauricio.neyra.p@uni.pe, orcid.org/0009-0007-7379-5798
AD  - Student, Faculty of Environmental Engineering, National University of Engineering, Lima, Peru, mndiazv@uni.pe, orcid.org/0000-0002-7711-1695
AD  - Quality Leader, DPR Construction, Redwood City, USA, sulyng@dpr.com, orcid.org/0000-0003-2367-9880
AB  - Several managerial approaches have emerged to address current construction challenges. Among them, information management addresses construction hurdles through process transparency, a core function of Visual Management (VM). Research on VM in construction has focused on its theoretical development and practical implementation. Conversely, research on process transparency has focused on highlighting its significance for construction through transparency strategies. This study aims to extend the research on process transparency and VM by identifying their current applications, measuring their degree of implementation, and highlighting their impact on team performance in two case studies based on observational protocols in Peru. The main findings are: (1) Process transparency implementation was mainly driven by internal team efforts for job facilitation, while VM primarily served job facilitation, site signage and transparency functions, (2) One site had a higher degree of process transparency while the other had a slightly higher degree of VM, and (3) team performance improvement was associated with visual practices serving the functions of transparency and job facilitation. Some recommendations for the implementation of VM systems on construction sites and for future research were also presented.
KW  - Lean Construction
KW  - information management
KW  - process transparency
KW  - Visual Management
KW  - team performance
PB  - 
T2  - Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 32)
DA  - 2024/07/01
CY  - Auckland, New Zealand
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2234/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2234
N1  - Export Date: 25 April 2025
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -