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QMI/Visual-Lean® Institute
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Visual Thinking
You can't get to excellence without it
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In this seminar, Gwendolyn Galsworth introduces the principles and practices of workplace visuality, along with her unique I-Driven conversion approach. After illustrating the basic elements of a visual workplace through dozens of examples, Galsworth walks you through two major implementation models: the Ten Doorways into a Visual Workplace and the Visual Progression. Together they enable the enterprise to achieve a high-performance, fully-functioning visual work environment.
Workplace visuality is the glue that holds all other improvement initiatives together. It is a journey, not a destination. Galsworth continues to anchor the discussion with actual visual solutions and systems, invented by people who have learned to think visually.
Drawn from discrete manufacturing, offices, continuous flow manufacturing, hospitals, call centers, mining, the food industry and forges, these examples span the gamut of visual technologies: from Visual Order to Visual Standards and Visual Displays, to Visual Metrics to Visual Controls and pull systems, and culminating in poke-yoke (Visual Guarantees).
Throughout, Galsworth shares tools and concepts for developing/strengthening an improvement infrastructure so that hard-won Visual, Lean, and Six Sigma gains are not just sustainable but amplified.
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Upon completion of this workshop, participants will learn:
- About the Technologies of the Visual Workplace.
- To diagnose visuality in your own company, assess your current level of visual competency and designate your next steps.
- How to measure bottom-line visual results and track impact on people.
- About the Ten Doorways into the Visual Workplace, and the specific groups and outcomes linked to each.
- The three biggest mistakes when launching a visual initiative and how to avoid them.
- To energize and unite your workforce through visual functionality, even in a multi-lingual/multi-cultural work environment.
- About the powerful Visual-Lean Alliance.
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Gwendolyn Galsworth
Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, Ph.D., is founder and president of Quality Methods International Inc. and the Visual-Lean® Institute. With more than 25 years in the field of visuality, Galsworth is an educator, implementer, researcher, and author of many books on workplace visuality, including Visual Systems and Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking, recipient of the Shingo Research Prize.
Galsworth has helped companies all over the world to accelerate their rates of transformation, strengthen cultural alignments, and achieve long-term, sustainable bottom-line outcomes. Her clients include Fortune 500 companies around the world. In 2005, she formed the Visual-Lean Institute where in-house and external trainers can become licensed and certified in more than 17 visual workplace methods.
Prior to forming QMI in 1992, Galsworth was head of training and development at Productivity Inc. where she worked closely with Dr. Ryuji Fukuda to adapt the CEDAC® method for western audiences–and with Dr. Shigeo Shingo to develop, among many things, a western-based Poka-Yoke method. Galsworth was also principal developer and implementer of Visual Factory, TEIAN (worker-led suggestion systems), and Hoshin Kanri/X-Type Matrix Planning (policy deployment).
She holds a Ph.D. in adult learning and statistics, has led study missions to some of the world’s finest production facilities, and is a frequent keynote speaker on visual systems, strategic leadership, and cultural conversions in the USA, Europe, India, and Australia.
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