1st Edition

Management and Visualisation Seeing Beyond the Strategic

By Gordon Fletcher Copyright 2023
140 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

140 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

As organisations of all sizes become increasingly digitalised, a core management challenge remains unresolved. The ability to successfully and sustainably connect the stated vision of an organisation with its strategic plans and, in turn, with the reported reality of day-to-day operations, is largely an elusive ambition, despite the many stated advantages provided by contemporary technologies. In... Read more

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1. Introduction: what is visual management?

2. A short history of the long evolution towards visual management

3. A theory of visual management

4. The current state of play in visual management (and the tyranny of corporate dashboards)

5. New views on the organisation: finding patterns in messy data through the wisdom of the crowd

6. Building blocks for practical visual management: tools and a typology of visualisation techniques 

7. Creating a learning organisation: applying people-focused visual management

8. Maintaining the primacy of vision in a data-informed era

List of references cited

Index

Biography

Gordon Fletcher is currently Director of Business 4.0 and the school lead for research at Salford Business School. Gordon has a 25-year record of teaching and professional workshops in the many aspects of the digitalisation of business and society.