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#Lean: The Toyota Production System is Mainly About the Philosophy

Mark Graban Feb 24, 2016 12
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There's a triangle diagram on the TSSC webpage that describes an "integrated system" that consists of: technical…

Toyota’s Jamie Bonini on Organizational Culture

Mark Graban Jun 11, 2013 3
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Last week at the Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit, I really enjoyed the presentation by Jamie Bonini,  General…

The Video From the Toyota Museum in Nagoya, Japan

Mark Graban Dec 12, 2022 0
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When I visited the Toyota Museum in Nagoya, Japan (see my previous blog posts about it), they had a display that…

What Blog Post Would an AI Bot Write About Lean in Healthcare?

Mark Graban Dec 8, 2022 0
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There's a new "AI copy writing tool" that I read about called copy.ai. I decided to play around with a free trial…

Toyota Was Helped, not Hampered, by TPS During the Pandemic

Mark Graban Nov 22, 2022 0
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A culture of learning makes the difference, not "low inventory" Last year, I wrote a post that criticized…

Why Damon Baker Thinks Lean Has a Marketing Problem; the Need to Speak the…

Mark Graban Aug 16, 2022 0
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Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #454 of the Lean…

Interviewed by Doctors on the “Connecting the Dots” Podcast

Mark Graban Mar 22, 2021 0
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I'd like to thank my friend Skip Steward for inviting me to be a guest on his podcast called "Connecting the…

CEO Akio Toyoda’s Perspectives on the Toyota Production System

Mark Graban Aug 31, 2020 1
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I was really happy to see this publication by Toyota, from Japan but in English: "Akio Toyoda's View on Toyota…

A Fantastic Video About Toyota Helping a Hospital in Brazil

Mark Graban Oct 29, 2019 3
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When I was in Brazil recently (read more), one of the presenters at the Lean Six Sigma Conference was Bruno…

What This Hospital President Said About Lean, Respecting Staff, and Just Culture

Mark Graban Sep 5, 2019 1
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This article made me smile the other day -- especially the comments about Lean, front-line staff, and systems: …

Managers Must Help The People They Supervise

Mark Graban Mar 26, 2018 5
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Last week, a nurse manager downloaded the free first chapter of my book Lean Hospitals and wrote this message in…

Lean, Leadership, and Employee Engagement at Whirlpool

Mark Graban Nov 14, 2017 1
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I recently read this article on the IndustryWeek website: Whirlpool's Green Takes Aim at World Class…

Adventures in #Lean Healthcare Hiring, Part 2

Mark Graban Oct 18, 2017 17
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I recently blogged about a healthcare improvement job posting that had me scratching my head when the interviewing…

Throwback Thursday: Are We Training the Right People on Lean?

Mark Graban Oct 12, 2017 10
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I'm teaching a daylong class on Lean healthcare today in San Antonio. It's something I've done twice a year for the…

How Toyota Gets Organizations Started with TPS

Mark Graban Sep 18, 2017 0
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Last week, I mentioned it was the 25th anniversary of TSSC -- formerly known as the Toyota Supplier Support Center…

This Organization Chose Not to “Deploy #Lean” Because a Leader Thought…

Mark Graban Sep 12, 2017 10
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I posted an article on LinkedIn last week as a companion article and summary of my podcast with Dean Gruner, MD,…

Variation in Definitions of #Lean (The Good, the Bad, and the Different)

Mark Graban Aug 23, 2017 8
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One challenge with teaching Lean is that there isn't aways a consistent definition that's used by everybody. Some…

Lean is Not Just Process Improvement

Mark Graban Jan 16, 2017 7
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In my travels, I often meet people or visit organizations that say something like: "We're doing Lean... we just…
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