Workshop Summary - "Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking: Creating Enterprise Excellence Through the Technologies of the Visual Workplace"

A Visual Workplace is not about buckets and brooms or posters and signs—or, for that matter, kanban and a handful of dashboards. It is a compelling operational imperative, crucial to meeting daily production goals, central to a company’s war on waste, and fundamental to vastly reducing lead times and an accelerated flow. Workplace visuality is the language of excellence made visual and imbedded into the process of work.

Gwendolyn Galsworth, leading visual workplace expert, introduces the basic definitions, principles, concepts, and tools that are at the foundation of a visual workplace is and drive it as a corporate improvement strategy. She will also present the power behind her unique I-Driven approach to visual conversions. Dozens of actual visual solutions will further anchor your understanding—not just from the shopfloor but across all organizational functions, including executive and engineering.

Then the focus shifts to the Visual-Lean® Alliance and the fit between the Shingo Prize model and Dr. Galsworth’s Visual Thinking, the key to sustainable Lean gains through people. As you walk through the Five Reasons for Visuality, you will come to appreciate how visual workplace technologies work together to create an empowered workforce, corporate alignment, and impressive bottom line results that you can take to the back. The session concludes with a chance for you to diagnose the current visual competency of your own company.

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