I’m very sure that most of us knew pretty well what is meant by the saying “A picture can tell a thousand words”. This old cliché is very much useful in simplifying the communication process intra and inter organizations. A smiley in an instant messenger is a perfect example of a visual that has replaced lots of descriptive words and a tremendous time saver. It’s so simple, direct, understandable, and fast to get your message across; I sure that you’d agree with me.Some countries have come up a very simple and easy to identify rest rooms whether they are for male or female with only visual signs; but unfortunately in my country this simple convention has not been used for reasons which I really don’t know. In Japan for example, a ladies rest rooms are marked by any simple drawing shape (triangle or a circle) that is pink in color while for gentlemen the shape is colored blue. So, being a simple minded person, I’d always look for blue color when looking for public gents rest rooms. In Malaysia most of the toilets signs are unicolored and a simple sketch (long haired face and a side face figure with a tobacco pipe in the mouth) to differential between ladies and gentlemen respectively. Wouldn’t it be easy if the same color convention by were to be used?
Signboards, posters and banners are the existing visual management media that are still being
trusted by organizations as the effective means to communicate to employees, contractors and customers. With the advent multimedia for PCs and mobile devices, the possibilities to communicate with visual management is limitless. Myspace.com and Youtube.com are excellent examples of how visual management can be very effective in helping managers and entrepreneurs to getting their business goals faster. Business performance graphs reprsented online can be programmed to impart tremendous amount of information to affiliates and branches offices around the world. Google Analytics has done a really good job in making graphic presentations which has vast application potential. Visual management is simply the best communication option that is readily available.
