What does the world of work hold in common—no matter the setting? This week at The Visual Workplace, your host and visual expert, Gwendolyn Galsworth, shares the answer.
What if your 5S was a creative process that engages, enlivens, educates, and elevates? What if your 5S could let the workplace speak? Let’s face it: 5S has a problem, a BIG problem. And it lies at the very foundation of the 5S approach.
What’s hard about a 5S audit? Not much—except most companies can’t get them started. Or if started, can’t make them stick. And did we mention the push back and/or the indifference? But it doesn’t have to be that way.
When 5S came to our shores from Japan in the early 1980s, its purpose and process seemed simple, straightforward, and useful. Easy-peasy. But implementing 5S turned into an entirely different story.
When 5S came to the West in the early 1980s, we were inspired and eager to get on board. In a blinding flash of the obvious, we asked how we could have worked for so many decades in such cluttered, dirty work places—and achieved any level of success.
Is lean alone enough? Many companies attempt to convert from traditional to the new manufacturing by relying exclusively on lean tools. Hospitals and offices too.
Are you like Gwendolyn…never giving a thought to Kenya, its people or its economy—simply because you never went there? And then, like her, arriving at the Nairobi airport, have whole new worlds open—magical people, magical skies. Tune in this week as Dr.
Do you mistakenly use the term “visual management” to refer to the full spectrum of visual function in the workplace? If so, you probably also mix up visual scheduling boards with visual displays. The first merely shows the production time table.
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Visual Workplace Radio: Let the Workplace Speak offers the best in practical tools, methods, and strategies for improvement leaders who want to apply workplace visuality and harness its remarkable cultural and bottom line contribution. Visuality: you can’t get to excellence without it.
Each week, award-winning author and foremost visual workplace expert, Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth, targets new learning and applications through a range of formats, case studies, interviews with business leaders and topic experts.
Whether yours is a factory, hospital, military depot, bank, office or dry cleaners, get informed, get inspired, get visual.
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