
Many organizations using lean are focused on optimizing their performance and efficiency. This includes tools and many have discovered the value of electronic and digital tools. Sadly, many companies end up with simple solutions like spreadsheets and use them to create lean boards. They add some value, but also a lot of complexity and more administration.
Tools like Microsoft Excel is easily available and is up to the task, but in real life, it’s far from the most efficient tool for this purpose. We explain why you should stop using Excel or other spreadsheet applications as lean boards.
To achieve a good workflow, efficient team meetings, effective follow up and maintenance, your boards must:
These are typical issues when using spreadsheets as lean boards.
This example is taken from a real-life scenario.
A department consist of 10 teams, 1 department manager, 10 team leaders and 10 team members in each team. This adds up to 111 employees.
The whole department use a set of Excel spreadsheets to manage their daily activities, reporting and KPI dashboards and with that many users, it’s easy to see how this gets messy.
All team leaders, officers, department manager and dedicated employees update the excel sheets many times a day. We calculated it to be over 2500 updates per month!
To get the two Excel files to sum up, all the input must be done in due time as the team leaders copy data from the first file to the second before each daily meeting. If (when) this fails, all the numbers and statistics for their team meeting is obsolete.
DigiLEAN gives you boards that is built for the purpose of being a digital edition of your classic lean boards. It also solves all the issues with lean boards in Excel spreadsheets.
First of all, DigiLEAN is an online platform making it available 24/7 and all you need is a web browser to login. You can update your boards from your office, track your responsibilities from your mobile phone and run your team meetings on a large monitor or touch screen.
DigiLEAN can be used as a placeholder for data registration or you can import from Excel or fully integrate with third party IT/IS applications. This way your boards are automatically kept up-to-date and you don’t need to extract data or manually compile data in an excel sheet.
Our boards are fully customizable to meet any design and functionality. Plan and update status on kanban or weekly boards, combine this with dashboard elements to run your team based on KPIs.
DigiLEAN fully supports drag-and-drop, perfect for use on a touch surface. The design is intuitive and build on clickable elements to add easy access to functionality.
All the data and input in DigiLEAN is safely stored in the cloud. This means that updates done one place is automatically synchronized across all devices.
Meeting attendees can make their updates seconds before the meeting, and the boards will instantly contain the actual status of any task or KPI.
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