Management and Visualisation

Seeing Beyond the Strategic

Gordon Fletcher (University of Salford, UK)

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Routledge
26 August 2024

Management & management techniques; Knowledge management; Business communication & presentation

Series: Routledge Focus on Business and Management

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 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 reflect 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.

The book contributes to the academic debate regarding resource-based and knowledge-based views of the organisation by advocating a different, more holistic viewpoint and will thus appeal to academics and researchers in this area. It would also benefit students across business disciplines, whilst the practical models and tools offered will benefit directors and managers looking to implement their own visual organisational language.

By: Gordon Fletcher (University of Salford UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 260g
ISBN: 9781032302522
ISBN 10: 1032302526
Series: Routledge Focus on Business and Management
Pages: 130
Publication Date: 26 August 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of figures List of tables 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

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.