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Overdoing Visual Management

by Pete Abilla on July 9, 2010

do not urinate in elevator

Visual Management works – making things obvious, exposing “normal” conditions versus “abnormal” conditions, showing standard work through visual aids, exposing problems – all through effective use of visual management – is just plain good business practice.

But,

One can go too far also.

For example, the photo below is going to far1:

visual-management-urinate-in-elevator-shmula-abilla

A sign like is either a reflection of the users of that elevator or the building owners are going way too far on applying the principles of Visual Management – the principle of making things obvious.

It’s Your Turn

Have you seen overuse of Visual Management? Where? How? Do you have a picture to share?

  1. failblog.org/2010/05/13/epic-fail-photos-obvious-fail-6/

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Mark Graban July 9, 2010 at 11:52 am

I’ve got a growing collection of bad signs at http://www.BeMoreCareful.com — signs that don’t get anywhere near the root cause of the workplace problem.

Like this one:

http://bemorecareful.com/2010/06/maybe-the-pit-fell-into-the-void-after-catching-fire/

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