Episode 22: Transforming Boring Copy-Paste Tasks with MagicBoards

  • In episode 22 of The Visible Workplace, Dr Tom Rolley celebrates a new surfboard acquisition!
  • He then moves to solving work inefficiencies using Magic Boards.
  • Annabel has been dealing with an inefficient template, and Tom discusses how clear improvements in the workflow can be made using the MagicBoard Method.
  • By making the steps visible in work processes, a tedious copy-paste task can be optimised at multiple levels - first to get the task done most effectively and then at a higher level using asset thinking to improve the process further.
  • What was a 3-hour process has been reduced to 60 minutes or even 10 minutes or less with the improvements in workflow.
  • While this saves money for the business, perhaps more importantly, it reduces team member frustration than being forced to do inefficient and unrewarding work.
  • In a workforce with low unemployment, refusing to improve poorly optimised work is a risk for good people moving to better workplaces!