Visual Workplace Radio: Let The Workplace Speak

How do you dis-mantle complexity and keep customer choice strong? Answer: systematically. In this week’s show, the final in the Smart Simple Design series, Gwendolyn Galsworth (your host and author of the book of the same name) outlines the Variety Effectiveness Process (VEP). Hear how to prepare for the process, what teams to organize, how to assess and validate reduction opportunities, and the importance of early victories to keep skeptics at bay while the harder work of in-depth analysis gets underway. Learn how to organize a special team to analysis company products from a marketing perspective and propose reductions that eliminate unneeded variety but do not endanger the company's market position. Or a team that surveys all the part types in the company's parts universe and often eliminates enough near or actual redundancies to reduce parts inventories by 40%-60%. Learn how to apply the concept of “shared versus unique” to dismantle or even prevent complexity. Tune in. Learn more.