Visual Thinking Seminar and Site Assessment
Querétaro, Mexico
October 19-20 & 25-26
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Critical-path visual devices directly support the value stream. Their benefit is specific and predetermined. It is easy to track the business or cost benefit they produce. Critical-path visual tangibly reduce lead time, improve quality, increase safety, and ensure better delivery times. If they cannot, they may be set aside as not relevant.
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Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking
by Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth
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Visual Radio:
Visual Metrics/Stacked Metrics:
Segmenting Cause
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Listen to Gwendolyn this
Thursday at 10am
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This Week's Episode
Visual Metrics/Stacked Metrics:
Segmenting Cause (ENCORE)
KPIs are a popular measurement approach. They are everywhere and here to stay. But that doesn't mean they are a reliable way to improve. In fact, KPIs are structurally incapable of improvement--except as a kind of motivating shock like a bad report card when we were kids. Our parents get on our case; we knuckle down: get better grades quick--solve the problem. And we usually do--solve it enough for the KPI to bump up enough. A pattern forms: bad KPI + vigilant boss + enough problem solving = enough improvement. But what would happen if the measures themselves triggered improvement--without the stuff in the middle? If problem solving happened as we measured? That is exactly what visual metrics do--they stack cause and reveal the improvement pathway, in one fell swoop. This week, Gwendolyn Galsworth walks you through the purpose and power of visual metrics and shows you how to use them. AND that can change everything.
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Human Thought: Beauty's Purest Form
(Part 5 of 5)
by Gwendolyn Galsworth, PhD
Early in my career, I was invited to a locomotive factory in the outskirts of Chicago. A huge plant, not for overhaul and repair but for manufacturing engine blocks from scratch. I was there to conduct a visual site assessment and map out next steps for the company's journey to visual excellence. It entailed lots of walking about and lots of meetings. At the particular moment relevant to this series on beauty in the workplace, I was rushing across the site's immense production environment-and saw something that stopped me in my tracks: a brand spanking new engine block--cylinders and all--was floating, gleaming bright, across the factory floor. I was dumbstruck, awestruck by the perfection of the thing. It shone, lit from within. And I realized, somehow, that what I was seeing was human thought-human thought made manifest. Available, useful, flawless. I was deeply moved.
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