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Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking (VWVT) was written by the acknowledged leading expert in workplace visuality. This is a seminal book, considered by many the definition of the field itself. First published by a small, independent press in 2005, the book won the prestigious Shingo Research Prize in the same year.
List of contents
Section One 1. The Visual Workplace and the Excellent Enterprise 2. The Building Blocks of Visual Thinking Section Two 3. Leadership and the Power Inversion4. The I-Driven CultureSection Three5. Visual Order: Visuality's Foundation6. Visual Standards and Visual Scheduling/Visual Displays 7. Visual Leadership: Metrics, Problem-Solving & Hoshin 8. VisualControls, Pull Systems, and Guarantees 9. Visual Machine®, Office & Macro Environment Section Four 10. Visual Management vs. Visual Workplace 11. Visual Thinking~Visual Transformation RESOURCES
About the author
For more than 30 years,
Gwendolyn Galsworth, PhD, has researched and developed the knowledge and know-how that defines the unique contribution that the visual workplace makes to the field of operational enterprise excellence and sustainable cultural and bottom line results.
Founder and president of Visual Thinking Inc. and the Visual-Lean(R) Institute, Dr. Galsworth is author of many books, including
Visual Systems,
Smart Simple Design-Reloaded, and two Shingo award-winning books,
Visual Workplace-Visual Thinking and
Work That Makes Sense.
Dr. Galsworth trains visual workplace trainers and helps companies around the globe accelerate their rate of transformation, strengthen cultural alignment, and achieve long-term sustainable results through the Institute's nine core visual workplace technologies.
Galsworth's radio show,
The Visual Workplace, draws more than 70,000 monthly listeners, with episodes available from our website, visualworkplace.com. Her newsletter,
The Visual Thinker, features a new article, weekly. For more, see Wikipedia.
Summary
Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking (VWVT) was written by the acknowledged leading expert in workplace visuality. This is a seminal book, considered by many the definition of the field itself. First published by a small, independent press in 2005, the book won the prestigious Shingo Research Prize in the same year.
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"Galsworth is the world’s foremost authority on visual management. Her book raises the stature of visuality, hardens soft notions about it, and embeds it in structure and theory that—until now—have been missing."
Richard J. Schonberger, Ph.D. Author, World Class Manufacturing
"Dr. Galsworth continues to produce work in perfect harmony with The Shingo Prize model, with visual concepts, tools, and methods that are essential as companies pursue operational excellence."
Robert Miller, Former Executive Director, The Shingo Prize
"I’ve been a student of management for 30 years, read countless management books and gone to innumerable conferences. I have never found a better, more powerful system of transformation than Galsworth’s. This comes through on every page of her books. She does that better than anybody."
Brent Allen, VP/Operations, Lifetime Products Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah
