Explain the purpose of a visual management system.

Visual management is a system used in business to pass on information quickly and efficiently, as people process information presented in diagram format much faster than text. The benefits of visual management include: an improvement in health and safety an improvement in performance, which leads to competitive advantage for the organisation key data is shown easily, which reinforces what is important to the organisation it addresses performance issues, keeping the workforce focused on the organisation's goals employees are more engaged and morale is improved as they feel more involved it can reduce downtime it can reduce errors and mistakes it improves employee awareness of performance it reduces waste and can improve employees' awareness of waste communication is improved information is shared more effectively throughout the organisation it reduces information overload it can reduce the need for time-consuming meetings