Visual Workplace Seminar
Enterprise Minnesota, Glenwood, MN
November 16-17
Visual Workplace Seminar
New Delhi
November 30-December 1
Visual Workplace Seminar
Mumbai
December 3-4
Live webinar
Lean Webinar series for the Lean Enterprise Division of the American Society of Quality
Training of Trainers
Master Class
Alexandria, Minnesota
January 18-22, 2016
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Our podcast bundles are now only $5.99 each. Each contains 3-12 podcasts, bundled by topic. Commercial-free knowledge and know-how insights about your visual workplace, from expert Gwendolyn Galsworth.
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Seeking inspiration? Try Visual Thinking Inc.'s
video gallery for lots of great thoughts and ideas you can use today.
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and you can get a Kindle version of that same book for only $2.99
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Everyone is color blind at birth.
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At the early stages, I-driven gives people the right to decide if they will get on board. We permit them to do or not do, based on their own inner calling. Many refuse. Others watch. Yet, a few don't just get on board. Responding to their own internal vision, they cut a swath of improvement through the work landscape that can be dazzling. They create. They are unstoppable. The results are often amazing, going far beyond the simple protocol of visual order and exploding into unique visual solutions of unsurpassed usefulness and invention.
Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking
by Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth
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Thanks to Andrew Bishop,
Green Leaf Plants
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Have you seen a Visual Fail that made you laugh? Send the image to
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Visual Radio:
Next Generation: 5S on Steroids
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Listen to Gwendolyn this
Thursday at 10am
(Pacific) on
This Week's Episode
Next Generation: 5S on Steroids
What if 5S-from-Japan made a cozy--and permanent--home for itself in the West as a core and very successful part of continuous improvement? What if 5S triggered high, even dazzling, levels of employee engagement? What if 5S was a system that pulled high-impact operational outcomes into a place that fed the bottom line? Great questions to which Gwendolyn Galsworth says: Why not? Tune in this week as she introduces four new elements into 5S that change--everything! These four create a powerful synergy that can transform your 5S into 5S on Steroids: 1) information deficits as the enemy; 2) motion as the measure; 3) visual devices as the solution; and 4) I-driven as the engine. Traditional 5S contains no authentic call to action--and for good reason: It is first and foremost a compliance-based (not process-based) approach. So we tick off if we did/did not do what we were supposed to do, audit style. Let's change that!
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Runaway Lean:
Limited Understanding/Uninhibited Tweaking
by Gwendolyn Galsworth, PhD
Does lean have a hard-edge limit? When a company puts its foot upon the path to lean, should it expect an endpoint, a completion, an arrival? Is this a forever commitment? Or is it a bounded outcome that we as a company can achieve and then move on? In short, is lean a destination or a process?
These are not philosophical questions but practical, hard-nosed issues that a company needs to address and answer before it can legitimately commit to a journey of change--or before it can confidently be ready to invest the considerable resources such a journey will entail. In this issue of The Visual Thinker, we begin an examination of the current state of lean in this regard-or should we say the current "array of runaway lean?"
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Answers to Last Week's Newsletter
(Vol. 2 Issue 44) Photo Array Quiz
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1. All barcode addresses must be backed in a contrasting color to clarify location. Answer: D
2. Cancelled or out-of-date barcodes must be removed.
Answer: Red Herring/no example shown
3. Any shelf address must have an arrow, showing to which shelf that address applies. Answer: C
4. Any address containing words must use upper and lower case. Answer: A
& E
5. Every department will identify the top of its value stream and put its address there. Answer: B
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A boy scoots along Walnut Street in Cremorne. Photo: Paul Jeffers.
This little laneway in Cremorne was once an inconspicuous grey, like most other roads of its kind in Melbourne. Almost overnight it was transformed a lively yellow, with splodges of orange and red. A short investigation tracked the renovation back to the local Yarra City Council. Concerns had been raised about the safety of the large number of pedestrians who share the street with cars as they walk to their offices, or one of Cremorne and Richmond's many cafes. Although the laneway is two-way, it has room for only one car to travel through at any one time."The purpose of this is to help alert users that this is not a typical road, as well as to introduce some aesthetic enhancement to a busy but interesting thoroughfare in Cremorne," Yarra City Council mayor Phillip Vlahogiannis said. "I hope for someone in a car to realize this is not your ordinary street and to drive carefully."
-Excerpted from The Age/Victoria
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