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Management and Visualisation: Seeing Beyond the Strategic

London; New York: Routledge (2023), viii, 129 pp.

Contains index

Series: Routledge Focus on Business and Management

ISBN 978-1-032-30252-2 (pbk); 978-1-003-30416-6 (ebook)

CC BY-NC-ND

"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 reflects 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 presenting management documents. Consciously assembling the artefacts of an organisation in order to manage it introduces a layer of criticality that encourages reflection and consistency that is often absent from current management practice. The benefits that a visual approach brings to organisational management are an increasing necessity, as machine learning, robotics and process automation remove traditional roles from organisations and necessitate new views on how individuals now fit into a data-informed business." (Publisher description)
1 Introduction: what is visual management? 1
2 A short history of the long evolution towards visual management, 16
3 A theory of visual management, 33
4 The current state of play in visual management (and the tyranny of corporate dashboards), 50
5 New views on the organisation: finding patterns in messy data through the wisdom of the crowd, 62
6 Building blocks for practical visual management: tools and a typology of visualisation techniques, 75
7 Creating a learning organisation: applying people-focused visual management, 93
8 Maintaining the primacy of vision in a data-informed era, 107