Visual Leadership/Executive Launch: SEIs Maturity Levels
September 11, 2014
Hosted by Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, Ph.D.
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Episode Description
What is an effective organization? And what is the role of leadership in making it so? This week, your host and visual expert, Gwendolyn Galsworth, resumes her series on visual leadership, this time focused on executives (she covered supervisors/managers last Spring). She begins by posing the two questions leaders must answer before they launch an excellence initiative: 1) Do we know what to do? 2) Do we know how to do it? In other words, is my organization ready? Readiness is a particularly thorny issue—and one that visual leadership is geared to help the executive not just answer but shape. In support, Gwendolyn converses with Alex Bleier—IT consultant and veteran of decades of IT project management—about the Software Engineering Institute Research Project on Capability Maturity Levels (Carnegie Mellon/1989). The result? A critical framework of thinking and insight for leaders—especially visual leaders-in-the-making. As relevant today as when it was published. Tune in/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.