The Lean Life: Kanban Case Studies
Eldon Kao
What is it?
Simply put, Kanban is a visual management tool originating from Toyota in the 1940's that was developed to improve production throughput by aligning resources with demand. In it's most basic form a Kanban board tracks items using three columns: To do, In progress and Completed as depicted in the example above. The simple nature and ease of interpretation of the Kanban tool allows it to be used in a variety of settings to organize and track countless tasks. Of course, both the Kanban cards and board can be customized to add more processing steps and details as required.
The following are two examples of Kanban being used at work and at home:
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