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Implementing visual management for continuous improvement: barriers, success factors and best practices

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  • Stefan Kurpjuweit
  • Dagmar Reinerth
  • Christoph G. Schmidt
  • Stephan M. Wagner

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Visual management (VM) has become an important lean management practice for continuous improvement and has gained increasing attention from academics and practitioners. While operations management scholars have studied its benefits and functions, the factors that enable or hinder VM implementation have not been systematically investigated. Against this background, our study analyses qualitative case study data from Swiss manufacturing firms to reveal important barriers and success factors that are relevant for the implementation of VM. Moreover, for each success factor, we present several best practices observed in the case companies to overcome the associated barriers. The results contribute to the emerging field of VM within the lean management literature and provide insights for practitioners how to implement VM more effectively.

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  • Stefan Kurpjuweit & Dagmar Reinerth & Christoph G. Schmidt & Stephan M. Wagner, 2019. "Implementing visual management for continuous improvement: barriers, success factors and best practices," International Journal of Production Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 57(17), pages 5574-5588, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:tprsxx:v:57:y:2019:i:17:p:5574-5588
    DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2018.1553315
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    2. Rahul Basole & Elliot Bendoly & Aravind Chandrasekaran & Kevin Linderman, 2022. "Visualization in Operations Management Research," INFORMS Joural on Data Science, INFORMS, vol. 1(2), pages 172-187, October.
    3. Yilmaz, Aysegul & Dora, Manoj & Hezarkhani, Behzad & Kumar, Maneesh, 2022. "Lean and industry 4.0: Mapping determinants and barriers from a social, environmental, and operational perspective," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 175(C).

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