Visual China: Oh My Gosh!
July 17, 2014
Hosted by Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, Ph.D.
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Episode Description
China! What is the link between its 1.35 billion people and visuality? Does that carry over into factories? Where does visuality fit in with China growing economy? These questions and more are on the mind of your show host and visual expert, Gwendolyn Galsworth. This is her first real week back since she started to travel in mid-May—last stop China. The riot of experiences, impressions, and questions that have piled up over these past few months have begun to sort themselves into an array of themes that Gwendolyn wants to begin sharing this week. But there is no question about the fact that China is impressive. For her, perhaps the most stunning aspect of her trip was the level of modernity in the visual infrastructure that girds the Chinese economy. It’s all there in stunning multiples: the self-explaining roads and highways, glutted with self-regulating traffic that is wildly populated with bikes, go carts, motorcycles—and the unexpected. Tune in LIVE/Call in LIVE: 866-472-5790.
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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.
