Mark Graban
Mark Graban is an internationally-recognized consultant, author, and professional speaker, and podcaster with experience in healthcare, manufacturing, and startups.
Mark's latest book is The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation, a recipient of the Shingo Publication Award.
He is also the author of Measures of Success: React Less, Lead Better, Improve More, Lean Hospitals and Healthcare Kaizen, and the anthology Practicing Lean, previous Shingo recipients.
Mark is also a Senior Advisor to the technology company KaiNexus.
#TBT: A Year of @KaiNexus Webinars, January through June, on Various...
One of the things I do for KaiNexus is produce and host our monthly free webinar series. You can view all of the recordings...
Human Nature Around Incentives & Rewards… Even in North Korea?
Dr. W. Edwards Deming used to warn against replacing intrinsic motivation with extrinsic rewards and incentives.
Brian Joiner (author of Fourth Generation Management), who worked...
Free Webinar: How a Hospital Spreads Continuous Improvement with @KaiNexus
On Wednesday at 1 pm ET, I hosted another free webinar in our KaiNexus Webinar series.
The presenter was Tania Lyon, Director, Organizational Performance Improvement at...
Podcast #268 – @TomEhrenfeld, on #Lean Books & #LeanStartup
My guest for Episode #268 is a long-time friend of mine in the Lean community and Lean Enterprise Institute circles, Tom Ehrenfeld (@tomehrenfeld).
Tom is...
How Lean Thinkers Shop? Plus the Lean Blog Holiday Gift Guide...
I'm guessing most "Lean thinkers" stayed home the other day on the "Black Friday" shopping day. Why might this be?
For one, I think we tend...
Giving Thanks for Giving Back: Toyota Helps Another Food Bank
Yesterday was the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S., so I hope you enjoyed the day if you're here and celebrating the holiday.
I saw this...
Lean Thanksgiving: Streamlining Your Holiday Dinner Preparation
It's almost Thanksgiving here in the United States, so I'll be taking the rest of the week off from the blog to enjoy some...
Lean People Don’t Say Things Like “Idiot Proofing”
I've long been skeptical of so-called "Lean Sigma" or "Lean Six Sigma." And not because I'm against Six Sigma statistical methods, which are valid...
Reasons Why Lean Wouldn’t Always Be Easier Just Because You’re in...
Facebook is reminding me that it was four years ago this week that I made my initial study trip to Japan with Kaizen Institute......
21 Things That Are Pretty Universal in My Global Lean Healthcare...
I do a lot of work across the U.S., but I've also been very fortunate to work with hospitals, clinics, and health systems around...
[Article] Creating a New “Gold Standard” — Healthcare Supply Chain Best...
Thanks again to Cardinal Health for sponsoring the webinar that I did with them and Fierce Healthcare on supply chain best practices from other...
Highlights from the Original 1984 NUMMI Team Member Handbook, Part 1
I recently wrote about my exploration of the collected papers of the late Don Ephlin, a UAW senior leader and a professor of mine at...
