UID:
almahu_9949385743702882
Format:
1 online resource (291 pages)
Edition:
Second edition.
ISBN:
9781000602593
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1000602591
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9781003197744
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1003197744
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9781000602623
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1000602621
Content:
This book presents the mechanics of implementing visuality on the value-add level known as Work That Makes Sense (WTMS). The step-by-step WTMS process described in this book teaches operators a proven method for translating information deficits into visual solutions that take the struggle out of their day-to-day work. As a result, operators transform their work area into a work environment that speaks--a work environment that, by design, shares vital information in the form of visual devices that help them perform their day-to-day work with precision and completeness. At the heart of this visual conversion approach is an element unique to Galsworth's paradigm called I-driven that recognizes that operators will pursue self-leadership in the company's improvement initiatives if they are given the opportunity to learn how to do so. Also recognized is the fact that this can only happen if associates are taught--and given the opportunity to learn and apply a new system of thinking. The author calls this new system visual thinking. This book provides that learning pathway, in detail, supported by hundreds of actual visual solutions, developed by operators who have followed that pathway and become visual thinkers for themselves--I-driven. They become self-leaders, in control of their corner of the world and able and willing to share their strengths with others. In this way, the WTMS process produces a deep and abiding change in the company's work culture that builds creativity and ownership. As a result, the organization's leadership framework widens to include operators. When effectively applied the WTMS process detailed in this book produces 15% to 30% improvement in local KPIs, including productivity, on-time delivery, quality, and costs; these figures are documented and presented in the pages of this book. Written for operators, this book includes a wealth of color photographs, the majority of which are visual solutions created by visual thinkers who have lived this process for themselves. All are fully captioned and thoughtfully described. The book also includes twelve tasks that managers implement in support that they seek on the operator level. WTMS teaches that visual devices translate information into exact behavior, embedding and sustaining precision through visual solutions. Precision is built in by the same operators who execute it. This is the heart of an I-driven visual enterprise. Once learned and operationalized, this paradigm allows the organization to take on any new improvement effort. Organizational alignment and teamwork have been redefined and operationalized.
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Make Your Addresses More Effective: Five Tips.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Foreword -- About Gwendolyn Galsworth -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction to the Second Edition -- Section One: Visual Workplace Basics -- Chapter 1: Introduction to The Visual Workplace -- A Word at the Start to Managers -- A Word at the Start to Value-Add Associates -- You Are the Expert -- What is a Visual Workplace? -- The Translation of Information into Behavior -- The Pre-Visual Workplace -- The Ten Doorways: A Workforce of Visual Thinkers -- The Benefits of a Visual Workplace
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Chapter 2: The Building Blocks of Visual Thinking -- One Simple Reason: Too Many Questions -- Building Block 1: I-driven Visuality -- Building Block 2: Standards -- Building Block 3: The Six Core Questions -- Building Block 4: Information Deficits -- Building Block 5: Motion -- Building Block 6: Work -- Building Block 7: Value Field -- Building Block 8: Motion Metrics -- Putting It All Together -- About the Examples in This Book -- Chapter 3. Your Implementation Tool Box -- Knowledge and Know-How -- The Three Outcomes -- Achieve a Showcase -- Achieve Trackable Bottom Line Results
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Adopt an Attitude of Learning -- Your Implementation Tool Box: The Five Tools -- Tool 1: Your Vision Place -- Tool 2: Your Laminated Map -- Tool 3: Your Visual Workplace Hit List -- Tool 4: Visual Workplace Supplies -- Tool 5: Visual Workplace Blitz -- Section Two: Smart Placement -- Chapter 4. Smart Placement: Logic, Meaning, Mapping -- The Logic: Function + Location = Flow -- Smart Placement Begins with Thinking -- Two Powerful Maps -- Ideas, People, and Minority Reports -- Your What-Is Map: Step-by-Step -- Chapter 5. Smart Placement Principles (1-7) -- Your Could-Be Map: Step-by-Step
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Principle 1. Locate Function at/near the Point-of-Use -- Principle 2. Nothing on the Floor/Nothing on Top -- Principle 3. Capture the Range of Full Function -- Principle 4. No Doors/No Drawers -- Principle 5. Put It on Wheels -- Principle 6. Make It Ergonomically Sound -- Principle 7. Make Function Appear/Disappear at Will -- Next Steps -- Chapter 6. Smart Placement Principles (8-14) -- Principle 8. Let Flow Do the Work -- Principle 9. Do Major/Minor Sorts (Sort the Universe) -- Principle 10. Co-locate Different Functions -- Principle 11. Use the Existing Architecture
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Principle 12. Store Things Not Air (Squeeze Out the Air) -- Principle 13. Double the Function -- Principle 14. Use the Natural Flow Line -- Next Steps -- Section Three: The Visual Where -- Chapter 7. Visual Where: Borders -- The Visual Where -- Begin with Borders -- The Logic of Borders: Six Reasons -- The Mind is a Pattern-Seeking Mechanism -- Smarter Borders: Adding Dimensions of Meaning -- Color-Coded Borders -- Applying Borders: Follow a Step-by-Step Process -- Next Steps -- Good for Laughs -- Chapter 8. Visual Where: Address and ID Label -- Address Basics -- Six Rules for Addresses
Additional Edition:
Print version: Galsworth, Gwendolyn D. Work That Makes Sense. Milton : Productivity Press, ©2022 ISBN 9781032054858
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003197744
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003197744
