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Friday, July 10
12:00 - 1:30pm Pacific
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with Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth
Companies complain that their 5S initiative is dying on the vine.
When management fails to link the 5Ss with visuality, 5S will almost certainly get implemented in isolation of the more advanced forms of visual information-sharing.
Visual order jumps over these pitfalls and urges us to implement the visual where for everything that casts a shadow.
Install workplace visuality. Invent visual solutions. Implement visual functionality.
5S+1 raises the amps and fires the imagination.
Join us for this discussion about
why visual order is like 5S on steroids!
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Work That Makes Sense Module 3:
Your Implementation Tool Box
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Learn about the five tools specifically designed to help you and your company succeed visually:
1. Your Vision Place,
2. Your Action Hit List,
3. Your Supply Cart,
4. Your Visual Workplace Blitz; and
5. Your local-area Laminated Map.
Each tool is described in detail--with plenty of hands-on exercises so you can put these tools into practice right away and keep a tight focus as your work area improves visually.
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| Eigengrau ("Brain Gray") is the color your eyes see in total darkness. |
On a micro and macro level, workplace visuality is about sustainability.
Unfortunately, few companies have learned the importance of sustainability and that their hard-won gains will erode-- and erode quickly--without visual information sharing. To prevent the erosion, it's important to firmly commit to a visual rollout at the outset.
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Check out Dr. Galsworth's
Sears Case Study video,
posted on our website.
It's FREE and SHORT
and full of good info and fun ideas!
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Visual Radio: The Visual Blitz:
Key To Your Visual Transformation
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SPECIAL NOTE:
This week marks our
200th live radio podcast!
In recognition of this event,
our
Work That Makes Sense DVD system
is available for HALF PRICE,
starting when this week's podcast begins (Tomorrow, 10:00am Pacific Time) and continuing until the start of next week's episode.
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Listen to Gwendolyn this
Thursday at 10am
(Pacific) on
This Week's Episode
The Visual Blitz: Key To Your Visual Transformation
How would you reply if asked whether you held visual workplace blitzes? Would you say: "Sure--someone is always thinking up a new visual device or two when we do our monthly kaizen blitz, sometimes more."? But this Q&A is at cross purposes. In a visual workplace blitz ("visual blitz" for short), the result is lots of visual devices as well as visual mini-systems. Tune into Visual Workplace Radio this week as Gwendolyn Galsworth defines a visual blitz and maps out its steps, guiding principles, and delights. She will also compare and contrast it with its well-known cousin, the kaizen blitz. How are they the same? What are the telling differences? Join us and learn about the three different blitz levels, how to set them up, how to make sure they are successful, and how to use visual blitz events as a training ground for supervisors as they take on a greater role in the improvement progress of the enterprise. Tune in/learn more. Let the workplace speak!
Listen Live
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| Buddies/Visual Shop Floor Blitz (Royal Nooteboom Trailers, Holland) |
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| Maria/Visual Office Blitz (Sears Home Services, California) |
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5S By Any Other Name...Is More Effective!
by Gwendolyn Galsworth
In last week's issue of The Visual Thinker, I began a new series--5S on Steroids--in which I explained the main differences, as I saw them, between Japanese 5S and the 5S that evolved in the West which was based on some faulty understanding, including an overblown notion of what 5S was supposed to do. At the end of that article, I promised to share with you key points I have learned about 5S since my own early failures in the 1980s with both Japanese 5S and the "new and improved" Western version. These failures ultimately led me to develop a robust alternative: Work That Makes Sense/Operator-Led Visuality (WTMS). There is much in WTMS that can help companies struggling with Japan's 5S, or our version, to re-enliven, re-direct, and resurrect 5S as they know it.
In your shoes, the very first step I would undertake is to change the name of your 5S--or at minimum--tweak it.
Think about some of the key improvement methods in the world today. The name sells. We want the method to work because-in many ways-we want to be able to "say" its name. We identify with it. It is branded into our minds and our vision like the Starbucks logo.
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| And the Visual Fail Prize Goes To... |
Have you seen a Visual Fail that made you laugh? Send the image to
[email protected],
and we'll put it here and credit you with the funny find!
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It says, "Vandalism is a crime",
with a picture of a paint spray can.
By Banksy.
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Great signs, clever visual devices, artistic or humorous graffiti. If you find one to share, send the image to
[email protected]
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