Visual Management Method Applied for R&D Project Management: A Case Study

One issue of Research and Development (R&D) project is communication timely and effectively for all participants. This issue brings, R&D project deliveries on time and on quality. This paper describes a Visual Management (VM) method in relation to the R&D project management to visualize important information between participants on R&D process chain. An effective visual management method is presented for the R&D project management with the purpose of delivering the project smoothly. This visual management method aims to visualize all necessary information for an effective communication by dealing with issues on time. The proposed visual management method is used to the case R&D project that can gather and visualize information and issues effectively, to solve daily issues on time by responsible people. With integrating the method with case R&D project, the visual management is implemented in a form of visual project office. The case study provides a detailed process that how a R&D project applies the effective visual communication method to support information transparence in project management to solve problem effectively. The paper is structured as follows: firstly, the brief literature on visual management is reviewed; secondly, the issue of information flow on R&D project are considered, and thirdly, the process of R&D visual management with its operating form - a visual management office is present and used in the case study. Finally, a discussion of the research outcomes and conclusion are summarized.