Technologies of the Visual Workplace

Dr. Galsworth’s Workplace Visuality system is anchored in two major models or frameworks: the Technologies of the Visual Workplace and the Ten Doorways into the Visual Workplace. We study and use these constructs to help us understand visuality as a destination and to show us ways to get there.

The first is the framework known as the Technologies of the Visual Workplace (below): a discrete set of methods, tools, and visual outcomes that comprehensively convert the physical environment into a visual one. Though many of these methods may be familiar to you, what may be new is thinking about them as a single line of logic—an integrated framework that reveals a common purpose. That purpose is: to share vital information about the task at hand—at-a-glance, and without speaking a word. In short, to let the workplace speak.

These technologies represent a progression—a continuum of visual information of sharing—that group into five major categories or levels, read from the bottom up as you would a ladder, with each rung having its own distinct operational purpose until the progression culminates in a fully-functioning visual workplace.

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These five levels can be further separated into eleven sub-categories or outcomes, each linked to a specific QMI methodology or Training-Track.

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