Next Generation: 5S on Steroids
What if 5S-from-Japan made a cozy—and permanent—home for itself in the West as a core and very successful part of continuous improvement? What if 5S triggered high, even dazzling, levels of employee engagement? What if 5S was a system that pulled high-impact operational outcomes into a place that fed the bottom line? Great questions to which your host and visual expert, Gwendolyn Galsworth, says: Why not? Tune in this week as she introduces four new elements into 5S that change—everything! These four create a powerful synergy that can transform your 5S into 5S on Steroids: 1) information deficits as the enemy; 2) motion as the measure; 3) visual devices as the solution; and 4) I-driven as the engine. Traditional 5S contains no authentic call to action—and for good reason: It is first and foremost a compliance-based (not process-based) approach. So we tick off if we did/did not do what we were supposed to do, audit style. Let’s change that! Let the workplace speak. Tune in/learn more.