Yes to the Few/Wait to the Many: Putting Your House to Work
October 30, 2014
Hosted by Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, Ph.D.
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Episode Description
How do you decide where to apply resources in order to improve? And how do you know you made the right choice? So many improvement opportunities/so little time. As part of her current series on Visual Leadership/The Executive Function, your host and visual expert, Gwendolyn Galsworth, continues to un-nest the strategy of waste reduction and its macro-metric (including the story of how the West discovered it). She then explains how to harness the improvement power of your house by naming its tactical targets. Will you target product improvement—or your process? Quality or machinery? Service/support or people? You cannot do it all—so which will you do? How do you say YES to the few and WAIT to the many? And once you decide, which methods will you apply to ensure improvement happens. Tune in and learn how to turn your House into a work horse, make it whinny for its supper, and then plow up the treasures you need to improve, sustain and grow your company? Tune in/Call in: 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.
Whether yours is a factory, hospital, military depot, bank, office or dry cleaners, get informed, get inspired, get visual.
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.
