Please help us welcome Jim Hudson to our VTI team.
If he calls you over the next few weeks, please
tell him where you are on your visual journey, what you're using and
what's working, so he can get to know you!
Thought for the Week
Over time, the area we move within becomes more focused and requires less attentiveness. The order and logic of work become so visual tat a harmony settles in. Our movements become efficient and less scattered. We begin to notice less obvious forms of motion and we find ways to visually minimize these.
- Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth, from Work That Makes Sense
Our sustainment series wraps up today--at least for the time being. And what three things do we now know for sure? 1) A company that does not learn how to sustain its improvements will lose them. 2) A company that thinks audits creates sustainment has confused compliance with engagement--and will fail. 3) Sustainment requires a balance between people, imagination, and structure/tools. In today's Visual Workplace show, Gwendolyn Galsworth, un-nests the fourth understanding: 4) Sustaining means driving--and to drive you need a destination (a clear focus) and plenty of gas. Join us and hear specific ways to cultivate continuous engagement as part of your sustainment process. Learn how to re-fresh and re-fuel people's thinking each month so that new ideas and inventions are continually generated and your KPIs improve. Learn more about why we say: Visuality doesn't just drive work culture-it creates it.
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?"
