The Daily Huddle Board
A structured 10-minute stand-up that pulls every Lean signal — KPIs, ideas, improvements, Kamishibai, 5S, causal tallies, strategy and an AI-generated daily report — into one focused 8-topic view, live from the platform you already use.
Every stand-up runs through the same eight stages
KPI Spotlight
Open every stand-up with the numbers that matter. Each KPI is surfaced against its threshold and tagged Critical, At-Risk, On-Track or Over-Achieving, so the team tackles what's hurting performance before anything else.
- Pulls live values from your KPI entries — no copy-paste, no stale screenshots.
- Auto-classifies each KPI against its R/A/G threshold and surfaces At-Risk and Critical first.
- Includes a 'Run 5 Whys' shortcut on any KPI that's below target, so a root-cause conversation can start in the huddle.
- Cuts the time spent hunting for numbers — the huddle starts on signal, not setup.
- Forces a daily conversation on the metrics that are actually drifting.
- Builds a habit of escalating problems early, while the cost of recovery is still small.
Ideas Pipeline
A live Plan / Do / Check / Act / Finished view of every active improvement idea, pulled straight from the prioritisation board — so the team can see where flow is healthy and where work is stuck.
- Five columns mirror the PDCA stages of every idea in the dashboard.
- Each card shows the linked KPI count and assignee badge at a glance.
- Click through opens the idea in the Kanban board for triage or reassignment.
- Makes the improvement pipeline visible to the whole team every day.
- Surfaces stuck work — the column that isn't moving is the conversation worth having.
- Encourages flow over batching, because the team can see WIP building up in real time.
Implementation Progress
What's actually moving — every idea currently in Do / Check / Act with a stage-progress bar, owner badge and its linked KPIs, so you know exactly which improvements need a nudge today.
- Stage progress is a heuristic from the PDCA stage of each idea (Do=25, Check=60, Act=85).
- Shows linked-KPI count alongside each idea, so the strategic value is immediately visible.
- Owner avatars make it obvious who to ask for an update without scrolling through tickets.
- Replaces vague 'how's it going?' updates with a concrete, comparable progress bar.
- Highlights ideas that have stalled before they quietly disappear from anyone's radar.
- Keeps accountability light — the data does the asking, not the meeting chair.
Kamishibai
Standard-work checks for the day pulled directly from your Kamishibai cards — daily, weekly, quarterly — with owner badges, frequency tags and bright overdue / failed flags.
- Status is derived from the card's last completion plus its frequency — no manual ticking on the huddle board.
- Frequency badges (Daily, Weekly, Bi-Weekly, Quarterly) keep cadence obvious at a glance.
- Failed and overdue cards are surfaced in colour, so anomalies can't quietly slide.
- Standard work stops being a nice-to-have — adherence is reviewed every single day.
- Catches drift in safety, quality and process checks before it shows up in a KPI.
- Closes the gap between 'we have an SOP' and 'we actually follow it'.
5S Audits
The latest 5S score and a category breakdown across Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize and Sustain — plus KAI-suggested next steps focused on whichever category is dragging the score down.
- Pulls the latest audit per zone with a score out of 100 and a per-category bar chart.
- Auto-flags the lowest-scoring category and links straight to its detail view.
- Shortcut to schedule the next audit and a tab into the new 5S report for trends over time.
- Turns 5S from a quarterly tick-box into a topic that's actually discussed.
- Pinpoints which of the five Ss is decaying first, so the fix is targeted rather than generic.
- Builds the 'Sustain' habit — the one most 5S programmes quietly fail at.
Causal Charts
Tally which contributing cause hurt the metric today. A 14-day heatmap and a Pareto strip reveal the dominant root cause in seconds, so the conversation moves from 'what happened' to 'what we change'.
- Click any day cell to add a tally — right-click to remove. Captures the team's hypothesis at the moment it forms.
- 14-day heatmap with totals plus a Pareto strip showing the biggest contributors.
- Each cause has a one-click jump to a fishbone, so root-cause work continues outside the huddle.
- Replaces gut-feel debates with a fact pattern built from the team's own daily tallies.
- Surfaces the vital few causes worth a fishbone — and quietly retires the trivial many.
- Captures tribal knowledge in the moment, instead of trying to reconstruct it weeks later.
Strategic Link
Objectives, correlated KPIs and supporting tactics pulled straight from your Hoshin matrix — so the daily stand-up always ties back to the annual plan rather than drifting into today's noise.
- Reads the active Hoshin matrix for the current site or department and lists each objective with its correlated KPIs.
- Shows correlation strength as a single progress bar — 100% means every KPI is mapped to an objective.
- Each KPI has an 'open' jump that takes the team straight to the metric for context.
- Keeps daily activity anchored to annual strategy — every huddle reinforces the bigger picture.
- Exposes orphan KPIs that aren't linked to any objective, prompting an honest conversation.
- Makes Hoshin a living document rather than a planning artefact filed away after April.
Latest AI Report
Close the huddle with a KAI-written executive summary covering KPI performance, idea throughput, waste categories and suggested next steps — generated on demand and attached to today's stand-up.
- One click to regenerate for today; reports are scoped to the current site / department.
- Sections cover executive summary, KPI analysis, Lean commentary and concrete next steps.
- Stale reports are flagged so you always know whether you're reading today's narrative or last week's.
- Gives the meeting a narrative — not just dashboards — that's safe to forward up the chain.
- Saves leaders 30–60 minutes a week writing their own status updates.
- Surfaces patterns a human might miss when juggling KPIs, ideas and audit data in their head.
The Daily Huddle Board turns continuous improvement from a monthly review into a daily operating rhythm. Every stand-up has structure, every topic has data, and every decision is tied back to a KPI, an idea or a Hoshin objective — without the whiteboard, the spreadsheets or the three tabs you keep switching between.
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The Daily Huddle Board is included on Starter and Pro plans.