Smart Placement and Why You Need It
January 15, 2013
Hosted by Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, Ph.D.
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Episode Description
Does the location of things at work matter? You bet! Finding that right location can accelerate the flow of work—or slow it to a standstill. This is the logic of Smart Placement and its formula: Function + Location = Flow. Over the next several shows, Gwendolyn Galsworth, your host and visual workplace expert, shares her Smart Placement approach—that indispensable step before laying down borders. Today, she defines the problem of placement that is not smart and shares a mapping tool so you/your teams can discover the level of motion (moving without working) in your area currently triggered by un-smart location—the un-conscious placement of function. Smart Placement doesn’t just show us where things are. It ensure that things are in the right place—not simply a designated location (as in “a place for everything/everything in its place”)—but the smart place for a function (item), its right location in relationship to every other function in the area. Tune in and learn more.
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Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, Ph.D.
Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, PhD, is president and founder of Visual Thinking Inc. and The Visual-Lean Institute(r), a training, consulting, and research firm in visual workplace technologies. Over a period of 30 years, Dr. Galsworth has codified the field of visuality into a single coherent framework of thinking and application called the 10-Doorway Model.
In 2005, Dr. Galsworth established the Visual-Lean(r) Institute where in-house and external trainers are licensed in nine core visual workplace courses.
Four of her nine courses are now available as on-line training systems (English/Spanish), with more to come. Galsworth is author of seven books, including two Shingo Prize winners: Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking and Work That Makes Sense, available from her website and Amazon.
Dr. Galsworth began in the 1980s as the head of training/development at Productivity Inc. She worked closely with Dr. Ryuji Fukuda to adapt the CEDAC(r) method for western companies, and with Dr. Shigeo Shingo to develop, among many things, poka-yoke for the West. She was principal developer of Visual Factory, TEIAN (operator-led suggestion systems), and the X-Type Matrix.
A Fellow on the Shingo Institute Faculty and former Baldrige and Shingo Examiners, Galsworth has led study missions to some of the world’s finest companies, including in Japan. Dr. Galsworth lives in New England where she happily works, hikes, and writes.
