Special Encore Presentation: The Ten Doorways Overview + 5S Begins
May 28, 2013
Hosted by Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, Ph.D.
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Episode Description
How do you achieve a fully-functioning visual enterprise and a workforce of visual thinkers? The roadmap for getting there is The Ten Doorways, a central framework that matches up specific company groups (managers, associates, CEOs, engineers, supervisors, etc.) with categories of visual function (methods): operators/visual order; engineers & managers/visual standards; supervisors/visual displays; executives/visual leadership; planners , engineers & managers/visual pull systems; and so on. It requires the entire enterprise to create a workforce of visual thinkers. This week your host Gwendolyn Galsworth, visual workplace expert and award-winning author, introduces you to the overall logic of her ten-door template. Then she delves into Doorway One: Visual Order/Visual Inventiveness, a category of visual function many refer to as 5S. But hold on to your hats! When Gwendolyn defines 5S, it is more like “5S on Steroids.” This is an Encore Show. Gwendolyn is in the UK for one more week.
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Visual Workplace Radio: Let the Workplace Speak offers the best in practical tools, methods, and strategies for improvement leaders who want to apply workplace visuality and harness its remarkable cultural and bottom line contribution. Visuality: you can’t get to excellence without it.
Each week, award-winning author and foremost visual workplace expert, Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth, targets new learning and applications through a range of formats, case studies, interviews with business leaders and topic experts.
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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.
