Monthly Archives: November 2012
Highlights From My First Lean Study Trip to Japan, Day 1
I know many of you aren't into the whole Twitter thing, but I'm using my account (@MarkGraban) to share some photos and small batches...
Visiting the Toyota Museum in Nagoya
While I'm in Japan this week (read about the trip), I'm going to keep my blogging light - my aim is to share one...
Lean Startup Conference Talk – Parallels to Lean Hospital Design
Although I blog most often about Lean healthcare, I know a good number of my blog readers are from the "Lean Startup" world who...
Archive of Free Webinar – Greg Jacobson, MD on Kaizen for Healthcare
Updated 11/8 to include a link to the recording and changing the post to past tense.
Gregory Jacobson, MD, co-founder and CEO of KaiNexus (disclosure:...
A Panel of Early Lean Lab Innovators
This week, I was able to drop by the annual Lab Quality Confab event since it was being held in here in San Antonio....
Updated: Save the Date – Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit 2013
The dates have been announced for the 4th annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit. It will be held June 5-6, 2013. Co-hosted by the Lean...
Watching the Steve Jobs “Lost Interview,” Part 2
As I started writing about yesterday in Part 1, I recently viewed a lost video of Steve Jobs being interviewed in 1995. See this...
KaiNexus Education Video #7 – No Countermeasure? That’s OK
Here is the seventh in our series of short, simple Kaizen education videos from KaiNexus, a software startup where I am on the management team. We...
Watching the Steve Jobs “Lost Interview,” Part 1
Recently, I stumbled across something that's been out for about a year, a lost video of Steve Jobs being interviewed in 1995. See this...
Getting to the Root Cause on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy
Last week, my wife was watching ABC's show "Grey's Anatomy," as she always does. Again, as she often does, she'll pause it for me...
Guest Post: Showing True Respect by Going to the Gemba
Today's post is by Brian Collyer, blogger at Today's Lean Manufacturing. Brian interviewed me recently for his podcast.
Gemba: the Japanese term meaning "the real...
A Test for Executive Candidates – It’s Time to Power Off and Stow…
A few years ago, there was a lot of buzz about how a board should evaluate a potential job candidate by seeing how they...
