Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking: Creating Enterprise Excellence through the Technologies of the Visual Workplace
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (780 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1932516018 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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Go to visualworkplace to learn more about Galsworth and her company, Visual Thinking Inc.—a training, research, coaching, and consulting firm. Across over 30 years of hands-on implementations, Gwendolyn Galsworth, PhD, has researched, created, and codified the knowledge and deployment base of workplace visuality that define visual’s distinct and powe
Learn about The Visual-Lean® Institute which offers licensing and train-the-trainer certification in nine visual workplace courses and a full range of on-demand webinars for training large groups. Author of many books, including Visual Systems, Smart Simple Design, and two Shingo award-winning books, Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking and Work That Makes Sense, Dr. . About the Author Across over 30 years of hands-on implementations, Gwendolyn Galsworth, PhD, has researched, created, and codified the knowledge and deployment base of workplace visuality that define visual’s distinct and powerful contribution to enterprise excellence—and to sustainable cultural and bottom line results. Go to visualworkplace to learn more about Galsworth and her company, Visual Thinking Inc.—a training, research, coachi
"Unimpressed with this book. You only learn after you" according to M. Acker. Unimpressed with this book. You only learn after you get it the author says - This book doesn't tell you how to do visual management, that is too much information and will come in a future volume. This basically just gives you high level information that doesn't really help you accomplish what you want to do with it.. Carlos said Not adapted to Kindle. The images are not adapted to the Kindle format, you can barely see them and is not possible to zoom over them. Also, the book looks like an outdated version and other options could be more helpful.. "A great resource for businesses trying to create a user friendly" according to Kara B. A great resource for businesses trying to create a user friendly workplace. Lots of great ideas within these pages.
In the final chapter, Galsworth discusses the visual and lean paradigms and how to bring them into the alignment needed to achieve operational excellence and make it sustainable.. Section 2 focuses on the culture of work: the role of executives, the leadership paradigm, and the empowerment inversion that results in a deeply engaged, spirited, inventive, and aligned workforce. Sections 3 and 4 map out the Ten Doorways of a Visual Workplace: visual order, visual standards, displays, visual metrics, visual problem solving, visual leadership, visual controls, visual pull systems, and visual guarantees (poka-yoke devices). Gwendolyn Galsworth. This Shingo Award winning book is written for executives, managers, supervisors, team leaders, and coaches, providing a robust discussion of visual principles and practices, based on 30 years of field work by the author, Dr. The first section of the book targets the basic concepts of visual information sh