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.
Lean in Sweden: Tools < Thinking
I had an incredible visit to a hospital in Stockholm yesterday, to walk the "gemba" (the actual workplace) to see their lean improvement...
“Strategy Deployment” Online Video Education from John Toussaint
One project I'm involved with at the LEI is an online video education event on the topic of "strategy deployment," confusing known also as...
Lean Healthcare Overview Video from Americans in Sweden
As I'm currently in Sweden, I was reminded of this video I found recently featuring John Black, a lean healthcare consultant and author who...
Lean is “Loving Care”? Lean IS Loving Care… Or Should Be
As you read this, I'll have just arrived in Stockholm, Sweden, where I have the honor of being the guest of UniLabs, a European...
Video No Longer Available
Sorry, the hospital had reconsidered and they asked me to take the video down. I'm sorry for any inconvenience.
Data vs. Facts, Illustrated
Two expressions get used often in the lean world, one from Dr. W. Edwards Deming and one from Toyota's Taiichi Ohno. Dr. Deming was...
Lean: Letting our human characteristics flourish…
Yesterday, I was in the first day of two for John Shook's "Managing to Learn" class about A3 management here at the Lean Enterprise...
It’s not “lean” to wait 150 days for an MRI
This news story, "Ottawa Hospital seeks fourth MRI machine," from Ottawa describes an unfortunate situation where 90% of patients had been waiting 360 days...
And the #2 Lean Blog Reader Country Is…
... the United Kingdom. Following up on the question I posed last week, asking readers to guess the percentage of U.S. blog readership and...
Notes on a Talk by Eric Ries at MIT on “Lean...
One of my goals for the next few weeks is to catch up on blogging about some great speakers I've seen recently. Coming soon,...
Only 11 Minutes of Value in an NFL Game?
Saturday's Wall Street Journal had an article ("11 Minutes of Action") with analysis that said something my wife noticed a long time ago -...
What You’re Searching For, January 2010 Edition
It's been a while since I've done a "What You're Searching For" Post, where I pull out items from my blog's stats, the keyword...
