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.
Gene Wilder, #Lean, and #LeanStartup Thoughts on Wasting Time and Lives
The famed actor and comedian Gene Wilder passed away this week at age 83.
I think of him primarily as an actor from the classic...
Jamie Flinchbaugh on Lean Zealots, What’s Working, and What’s Not
Joining me for Episode #261 is an old friend and trusted mentor, Jamie Flinchbaugh. Among other things, he's the co-author of the book The Hitchhiker's Guide...
Exposé About Detroit Medical Center, Dirty Surgical Instruments, Dysfunction, and… Lean?
A number of you emailed me about this report in the Detroit News. I grew up in Detroit and my first job was as...
#TBT: Posts from August 20 in Years Past
Facebook and their "On This Day" feature is helpful because the platform often reminds me of what happened on this day in years past....
Did Bad Systems & Training, Weak Problem Solving, and Poor Supervision...
The cancelation of a meaningless NFL exhibition pre-season game is probably one of the least important problems in the world. But, it happened recently...
Podcast #260 – Brad White, on Lean Daily Management for Healthcare
My guest for Episode #260 of the podcast is Brad White, author of the recently-released book Lean Daily Management for Healthcare: A Strategic Guide to...
Why You Shouldn’t Rely on Sticky Notes to Sell Cars or...
As I occasionally do, I've written blog post for KaiNexus:
For the Want of a System Better Than a Sticky Note, a Car Sale Was...
The Time I Volunteered at a Distillery and Couldn’t Help Doing...
One thing I enjoy is the opportunity to basically be a “value adding” worker in a process. The work is pretty repetitive (but, again, it’s a very enjoyable environment) and it lets me think like an industrial engineer or a “Lean thinker” when I’m not talking with...
The One Where @TheNerdyNurse Talks About the Power of #Lean in...
It's one thing to hear Lean professionals or specialists talking about the power of this methodology to improve healthcare. To me, it's not just theory, it's...
Are These Bad Suggestions About Suggestion Boxes?
I've written a lot about suggestion boxes, and usually in the context of how they don't work well. Many aspects of traditional suggestion box systems sound great, but don't work in practice. What doesn't work: Boxes not being opened very often, being reviewed by a committee or executives...
My Lean Healthcare Trip to China: Transitioning From Beijing to Shanghai
Continuing my series of blog posts about my July trip to China, today's post is about the second city I visited: Shanghai.
This post...
Steve Bera, Reflections On Working at NUMMI And Lean, Part 2
Today's episode #259 is Part 2 of a discussion I started with Steve Bera in episode #256. Steve was one of the original 16 "NUMMI...
