What Exactly IS a Kanban Board?

Written by Jake Sussman, read by Mark Graban If youâve watched our
recent webinar Taking Improvement Boards Digital: How Leading
Companies are Improving Visual Management, or been reading our
posts about the same, you would have heard the term âKanban boardâ
used. While itâs great to hear that KaiNexus software supports
digital Kanban boards, itâs even better if you have a clear
understanding what a Kanban board is, and how it can help you on
your continuous improvement journey. Hereâs the rundown: What is
Kanban? Weâve written a longer primer on Kanban here, but the
important thing to know is that it is a visual system for
monitoring the flow of work from the start, as we build a backlog,
move work into in-process (while hopefully limiting WIP), and
completing this work. Visualization works so well because our
brains interpret visual information far faster than data or text.
By reducing complex material down to visual components and putting
them together, managers and staff can get an overview of the whole
workflow system in seconds rather than the hours it might take to
track down information in every area, work through it, and
synthesize it down into conclusions that can be shared.