Visual Workplace Visual Thinking: Creating Enterprise Excellence Through the Technologies of the Visual Workplace, Second Edition

ISBN-13: 9781138684683 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 278 str.

Gwendolyn D. Galsworth

Opis

Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking (VWVT) was written by the acknowledged leading expert in workplace visuality. Though other books touch upon visual workplace tools and practices, no other author has addressed the topic with the clarity and depth presented here. This is a seminal book, considered by many the definition of the field itself. Also unique to this book are the hundreds of photographic examples of actual visual solutions, in full color. Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking was self-published in 2005 through the author's company imprint Visual-Lean(R) Enterprise Press. It won the Shingo Research Prize the same year. It was then and remains the only book of its kind, describing a comprehensive visual workplace model derived from on-site research in some of the world's best and most challenging companies. This means that VWVT is written not by an academic but by a hands-on practitioner who has worked for more than three decades directly with companies in some phase of the journey to workplace visuality. This usually starts with 5S and then moves to visual standards, visual scheduling, visual material control, visual metrics, visual problem solving, visual leadership, visual machine(R), and the visual-lean(R)office--to name several of the segments of the book's main model, called The Ten Doorways. VWVT is also distinctive in offering over 200 full-color visual solutions and some 50 figures as supporting, illustrative material. After an introduction from Peter Dobbs, head of strategy at Rolls-Royce, and Sherrie Ford, US culture guru, the book's eight chapters unfold. Chapters 1-4 introduce the core concepts on which the model is based. The next three chapters map each part of the model. The eighth and concluding chapter describes the visual-lean(R) alliance, positioning the visual workplace as lean's powerful partner. This 224-page book also has a comprehensive index and a complete table of figures and photos.

O autorze

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® 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.