Key #Lean Tweets from @MarkGraban — #HCSummit18 Edition
Here's the latest installment of "Key Tweets," a (usually) weekly post that presents some of my tweets (or…
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Attend With Me: Come Learn Statistical Process Control From Don Wheeler
For a long time, I've wanted to attend a "Statistical Process Control" (SPC) class taught by Donald J. Wheeler,…
Podcast #308 – Mike Grogan, Personal Lean and Lessons Learned 3rd time on…
Joining me again for Episode #308 is Mike Grogan, a previous guest in episodes #182 (from Tanzania) and #224. Mike…
Rest in Peace, Anthony Bourdain
I was very sad to see the news about Anthony Bourdain's death, reportedly by suicide.
I regularly watched…
Presentation About Kaizen and KaiNexus From 2013 [Video]
Recently, I stumbled across some video of me and Dr. Greg Jacobson giving a talk at a health system. I think it's…
What Do Cars Have to Do With Healthcare? How to Adopt and Adapt Lessons From…
Today, I'm giving a talk at the International Society for Blood Transfusion (ISBT) conference in Toronto. I was…
Key #Lean Tweets from @MarkGraban — Week of May 28: LeBron, Toyota, Tesla,…
I'll be blogging a bit less often over the next few weeks, as I work on my book Measures of Success. But, I can't…
Gone Fishin’… Taking a Blog Break (and Info About a Webinar Tomorrow)
Hello readers. I wanted to let you know that I plan on taking a bit of a hiatus from blogging the next few weeks.…
Major League Baseball Works on Standardizing the Ball… For What Purpose?
Back in 2014, I wrote an article for The Lean Post:
"Standardization is a Countermeasure, Never the Goal"
I'm a…
Memorial Day – A Day of Remembrance
Originally posted a few years ago, I'm reposting this for the holiday here in the U.S.
Key #Lean Tweets from @MarkGraban — Week of May 21: Healthcare, Apple,…
Here's the latest installment of “Key Tweets,” a (usually) weekly post that presents some of my tweets (or…
My Book “Measures of Success” and Free Webinar on June 22nd
I'm still working on my book Measures of Success, as I've mentioned here a few times.
The partial "in-progress"…
A Health System CEO Leads by Example on #Lean & Huddles
Today is one of those days where I think, "Forget what I have to say, read this...."
This being a LinkedIn post…
Are Hospitals Not Getting Any Closer to Having “Just Cultures?”
For a long time, I've been an advocate for the parallels between Lean and an approach called "Just Culture." See…
Understanding Variation: A BBC Simulation of Hospital Surgical Deaths
I'll be teaching my "Better Metrics" workshop (aka "Measures of Success," ala my book) twice in June:
Cambridge…
Key #Lean Tweets from @MarkGraban — Weeks of May 7 & 14 Improvement,…
Here's the latest installment of “Key Tweets,” a (usually) weekly post that presents some of my tweets (or…
The Making of an MLB Phenom, Shohei Ohtani: Looking at The Harada Method
I first learned about an approach to personal development called "The Harada Method" when Norman Bodek co-authored…
Should This Japanese Hospital React to a Dip in Kaizen Submissions? “Small Kaizen”…
Last week, I wrote Part 1 of this piece about TQM and "Small Kaizen" at a Japanese Hospital pharmacy.
The…