By Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth
NAPOLEON’S DEFEAT MADE VISUAL: MINARD’S MAP OF THE DISASTER
Often enough, you have heard me say that 50% of our brain function is dedic ...
IDEAS: GROWTH IN BOTH DIRECTIONS
We are fast approaching the time when companies realize and are ready to ac ...
VISUALITY AT WORK: A MORE COMPLETE DESCRIPTION
In a visual workplace, information is converted into simple, universally un ...
SPEED ISN’T EVERYTHING
Speed Isn’t Everything: Visual and Lean Defined (Part 1)   ...
POP QUIZ: HOW BAD ARE INFO DEFICITS AT YOUR WORK?
Last week we learned that it takes 8 to 10 minutes to recover from an inter ...
THE INVISIBLE ENEMY: RULER OF THE NON-VISUAL WORKPLACE
There is an enemy in your company—and it’s invisible. You can’t see i ...
WHERE VISUALITY IS THE ONLY CHOICE
What is the big difference between visual and lean? Answering that question ...
VISUALITY: A SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS… HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT
Our series on Lean Alone is Not Enough continues—and we are getting close ...
HOW VISUALITY ALIGNS: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DATA, INFORMATION ...
From sales to design, procurement to planning, fabrication to processing, r ...
END MOTION THROUGH THE SIX CORE QUESTIONS
In last week’s issue of The Visual thinker, we took a closer look at the ...
MOTION SICKNESS AND A DOSE OF MEDICINE
Chronic information deficits—offices and the production floor are flooded ...
MOTION: CORPORATE ENEMY #1
Deficits in information have a vast and disastrous impact on all performanc ...
THE ENEMY: CHRONIC INFORMATION DEFICITS
It’s no secret. Workplace information can change quickly and often—prod ...
HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT: END-TO-END VISUAL CONNECTIVITY
There is a reason why the principle of “seeing the whole value stream” ...
WHAT THE OPERATOR SAW
What do operators experience in a workplace driven by continuous improvemen ...
THE VISUAL WORKPLACE: DEFINED
The entire world of work—whether assembly plant, hospital, bank, airport, ...
THE TEN DOORWAYS: CREATING A WORKFORCE OF VISUAL THINKERS
The technologies of the visual workplace represent a discrete set of method ...
USE MOTION AS A LEVER: BECOME A SCIENTIST OF VISUAL IMPROVEMENT
p>It’s easy enough to make a visual device—or borrow an idea for one fr ...