Over 550 full-color visual solutions, graphs, and charts.
Eleven well-written chapters show a clear and complete step-by-step protocol for transforming comapnies into well-functioning visual workplace—and operators into visual thinkers.
The 14 Principles of Smart Placement
The 8 Building Blocks of Visual Thinking
Two chapters on Visual Mini-Systems and the Four Power Levels that show you how to drill deeper and move far beyond 5S into the world of robust visual information sharing.
At last! A book that teaches how to go beyond 5S and train, implement, coach, support, and sustain visual inventiveness on the operator-level. This is a must-read for all levels of the organization. Based on nearly 30 years in the field, author Gwendolyn Galsworth, foremost authority on workplace visuality, provides value-add associates with a methodology and hundreds of full-color actual visual solutions for converting their own work areas into visual workplaces. The result? Visuality becomes the imbedded language of operational excellence-and the workplace speaks. Work That Makes Sense is addressed directly to the real experts of day-to-day work in your company-front-line associates-showing them what a visual workplace is, why it's important to their daily work, and how to create one. Bonus material spells out sixteen key tasks for leaders so they can pro-actively coach and support the conversion. Whether you work in a factory, hospital, bank, engineering office, military depot or open-pit mine, expect a 15% to 30% productivity increase on the departmental level-along with soaring employee empowerment. As Galsworth puts it: Get ready for a spirited and engaged workforce. Across eleven well-written chapters and over 500 full-color examples and charts, you will learn a clear and complete step-by-step protocol for transforming organizations into well-functioning visual workplace-and operators into visual thinkers of the first order. In fact, these thinkers are doers: employees who want, are able to, and do create hundreds, even thousands, of visual devices that puts them in control of their corner of the work. If there is one book to buy to advance your excellence journey, Work That Makes Sense is it.