About LeanBlog.org
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We're working to make the world a better place through Lean… better processes, better leadership, better workplaces… and better results! Oh, and we'd like to have some fun while we're doing that.
Welcome to Mark Graban's Lean Blog, a site started in January 2005 to host news, commentary, and discussion about “Lean” – the methodology and management system based on the Toyota Production System.
The site has evolved in parallel with Mark's career – focusing initially on Lean Management in the manufacturing world but focusing more on healthcare over time after Mark moved into that industry in late 2005.
Lean Blog covers several themes about lean that are universal, regardless of industry.
This blog led to Mark's Shingo Award-winning books: Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Engagement (now in a 3rd edition) and Healthcare Kaizen: Engaging Front-Line Staff in Sustainable Continuous Improvements — and other books.
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Disclosures
I may blog about former employers, which include General Motors, Dell Inc., Johnson & Johnson (ValuMetrix Services), and the Lean Enterprise Institute.
I currently have financial relationships with other individuals or organizations that might be mentioned on the blog:
- KaiNexus (as a contractor and a shareholder)
- Lean Enterprise Institute (as a former employee and current faculty member)
- Catalysis (as a faculty member)
- Productivity Press / CRC Press (as an author)
- Value Capture, LLC (as a former contractor / consultant)
- Lean Pathways (as a former contractor / consultant)
Past or current advertisers include:
- Stiles Associates
- 5Ssupply.com
- American LED-gible Inc.
- Creative Safety Supply
- The 5S Store
- StoreSMART
- Lean Learning Center
- Gemba Academy
- Lean Posters, Inc.
- KaiNexus
Links to Amazon.com
These disclosures are in the interest of meeting FTC blog disclosure guidelines.
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.