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False Rivals: Digital versus Physical Obeya Boards
Friday June 26, 2026 2:40pm - 3:25pm CEST
5. Douchelokaal
Digital and physical Obeya boards are routinely treated as competitors. One is scalable, modern, and data-rich. The other is tactile, social, and anchored in the work itself. Leaders are told they must choose.

This is a false binary.


Physical boards do something the brain is exquisitely designed for. Digital boards do something entirely different—something no wall can do. Most organizations sense this distinction, but few articulate it clearly, and fewer still design, deploy, and resource both with that distinction in mind.


When digital boards come to dominate the informational environment, subtle failures emerge. Interaction shifts into observation. Engagement thins into explanation. Alignment appears stronger than it is. Results plateau—not because visuality fails, but because information is made visible without regard for human use.


In this session, Gwendolyn Galsworth reframes digital and physical boards not as alternatives, but as distinct and complementary forms of visuality. The real question then becomes not which board is better, but what kind of thinking, alignment, and commitment each one makes possible—and what is lost when one is overlooked.


Join us to explore how recognizing and restoring this balance renews Obeya clarity, momentum, and impact—making a mission-critical human difference. 
Speakers
avatar for Gwendolyn Galsworth

Gwendolyn Galsworth

President/Founder, VIsual Thinking Inc.
Gwendolyn Galsworth, PhD, is a widely-recognized visual workplace/visual management expert, credited with codifying visual workplace concepts, principles, and technologies into a single, coherent framework of knowledge and know-how. Founder/president of Visual Thinking Inc. and Visual... Read More →
Friday June 26, 2026 2:40pm - 3:25pm CEST
5. Douchelokaal
  SESSION (45/60 mins)

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