Mark Graban
Mark Graban is an internationally-recognized consultant, author, and professional speaker, and podcaster with experience in healthcare, manufacturing, and startups.
Mark's new book is The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation.
He is also the author of Measures of Success: React Less, Lead Better, Improve More, the Shingo Award-winning books Lean Hospitals and Healthcare Kaizen, and the anthology Practicing Lean.
Mark is also a Senior Advisor to the technology company KaiNexus.
Guest Post: Stop Improving and Start Eliminating
Mark's note: The vacation guest posts continue with a piece by a long-time friend of my blog, Matt Wrye. He's a frequent commenter and...
Guest Post: How to Have a Lean Party
Mark's note: Today's guest post is from a Michigander (I prefer that term over Michiganian, but I digress). Jon Wetzel, among other things, is...
Guest Post: Learning to See… and Feel
Mark's note: Today's guest blog post comes from a good friend of this blog and long-time reader and commenter Brian Buck. Brian blogs at...
Guest Post: “Do” Only Gets You Half the Way There, or…”No...
Mark's Note: Today's guest post comes from Mark Hamel, a recent recipient of the Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award for his book Kaizen...
Guest Post: Linking the Lean Enterprise
Mark's note: Today's guest blogger is Jim Huntzinger, the organizer of many topical Lean Summits including Lean Accounting, Training Within Industry, and Lean and...
Guest Post: Operations-based Healthcare Design
Mark's note: Today's guest post is by Alica Simmer, a Senior Healthcare Consultant with KHC. I'm happy to have her as a guest blogger...
Guest Post: 7 Lean Ideas For Lawyers
Mark's note: Today's vacation guest post is from D. Mark Jackson, a lawyer who has been studying and embracing Lean principles in a California...
Guest Post: The Role of Middle Management in Toyota or a...
Mark's note: Today is the first of a series of guest posts that will appear over the next two weeks from a variety of...
Simplistic Solutions Can Have Unintended Consequences
An editorial written by an American Airlines pilot in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram caught my attention ("Unintended consequences of the Passenger Bill of Rights")....
1st Day of Lean Healthcare Summit & “On The Mend” Available...
We had an amazing first day at the Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit here in Orlando. We have 260 Lean healthcare leaders, including about 30...
ThedaCare, Lean, and Primary Care in the News
ThedaCare, the health system in Wisconsin, often gets a lot of attention for the Lean improvements in their four hospitals, but they are also...
Lean Healthcare Examples from Seattle and the UK
This linked article ("Lean cuts Healthcare Costs at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle") summarizes improvements and Lean methods at Seattle's Virginia Mason Medical Center...
