China: How Does Visuality Fit In?
July 24, 2014
Hosted by Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, Ph.D.
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Episode Description
What does employee involvement mean in a booming economy? Why should a company go visual when it is already selling everything it can produce? How can growing market demand make the most compelling case for a visual workplace, more compelling than the potential for cost savings could ever represent? The economy in question is China. For your host and visual expert, Gwendolyn Galsworth, her recent trip to China triggered more questions on her return than were raised while she was there. But the short of it can be expressed in five words: Where does visuality fit in? Why bother? Last week, Gwendolyn shared impressions and startling discoveries (like the dragon under a super highway in Shanghai). This week she targets more strategic themes: Why does China need visuality? How does that support an already booming economy? What do US companies have in common with those in China? And why is the government of China as interested in solid responses to these questions as she is? Tune in LIVE.
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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.