Visual Workplace Radio: Let The Workplace Speak

Question: Which is more important—visual or lean? Answer: Bad question. Visual and lean share a single outcome: operational excellence by identifying and eliminating waste, relentlessly. Listen this week as Gwendolyn Galsworth, your host and visual expert, shares why and how visual and lean represent a single comprehensive improvement strategy, with only a difference in focus and language. Visual’s name for the enemy is motion. It targets how companies share information and then seeks ways to strengthen and build adherence. On the flipside, lean’s enemy is called waste or non-value adding activity. Its job is to dis-entangle the path that value follows on its way to the customer—and then put pull in place. Why make one powerful improvement paradigm more important than the other? Like the wings of a bird, visual and lean are both separate and equal in impact. If you ask a bird which of its wings is more important, it will simply fly off and let that be your answer. Tune in/learn more.