kanban in a can: capture, visualize and optimize your everyday processes

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Kanbanin acan

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Capture, Visualize, Optimize

Your Everyday Processes

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(Not like this)

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(Not like this)

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(Not like this)

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Like this

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Why bother?

Because paper lags reality

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Paper lags reality• Traditional paper-based process

management always lags reality

–Distribution is an expensive hassle

• Process descriptions are provided in abstract terms or legalese

–Consumption is discouraged

• Cannot easily get feedback, cannot quickly make revisions

–Continuous improvement is hard

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“Paper on Glass” is no better

PDFs on Intranets just makes the printing problem your user’s problem.

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How do you actually make the PDCA cycle faster?

Can you improve every week, not just once a year?

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Plan

Do

Check

Adjust

Can you capture all your

processes?

Can people easily consume your

processes?

Can you quickly get feedback on

what works?

Can you improve your processes

faster?

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Demo

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Visual Templates

• Capture all the tasks that make up an everyday process as cards on an online Kanban board

• Cards can include helpful content: documents, URLs, videos, etc.

• Make this board a template that can be reused each time the process needs to be repeated

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Example: Onboarding a new Employee

This is Kanban in a Can: a process

template that is ready to go

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Example: Onboarding a new Employee

All the tasks for this process are

organized as cards

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Cards capture tasks

Each task can come with

detailed instructions

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Include helpful content

You can add files and Web

content to each task

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Collaborate across Processes

• Share your online Kanban board with coworkers, in real-time

• Solve problems quickly, as they appear

• Integrate chat inside your process workflows

• Capture project output, e.g. documents as the process is done

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Example of Onboarding Employee

Board is shared in real-time with

coworkers

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Plan

Do

Check

Adjust

ActionableTemplates

Real-timeFeedback

ContinuousImprovement

InstantDistribution

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Questions?

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Arun@Kerika.com