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.
A Lean Guy Listens to NPR – Waste & Problems in...
Coming this week -- blog posts and tweets (follow me or hashtag #HCsummit12) from the 2012 Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit on Wednesday and Thursday....
Turning to Lean Management and Kaizen for Safer Healthcare
I was interviewed for a weekend public affairs program that aired on multiple radio stations in the Denver area two weekends ago, talking about...
Weekend Fun: This Park Puts the K in Quality
Near our old home in the Fort Worth, Texas area was this city park in Southlake. The sign always made me do a double...
Healthcare Kaizen Update – Events, Galleys & Early Copies
I'm really looking forward to next week's Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit in Minneapolis. Who else is going? I'll be blogging about it Wednesday through...
Podcast #149 – Gregory Jacobson, MD, CEO of KaiNexus on Kaizen...
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My guest for episode #149 is Gregory Jacobson, MD, the co-founder and CEO at KaiNexus. We'll be talking about his early work with Kaizen...
New eBook Compilation – Lean Blog: Sports
Being a big fan of what the guys at LeanPub are doing (listen to my podcasts with them here and here), I created a...
A Hard Habit to Break
No, this isn't a post about the the 80s Chicago tune "Hard Habit to Break." It's about individual habits related to problem solving that...
Goodbye Dr. House, Hello “Respect for People”
Dr. Robert Wachter has a great column in today's USA Today: "Column: Gregory House M.D.: RIP" and it's republished on his blog, with its...
“Healthcare Kaizen” Book Release Date Now June 27
After the date had been previously pushed back to July 27, due to some delays on the publisher's side, I''m happy to announce that...
Podcast #148 – Naida Grunden & Charles Hagood on ‘Lean-Led Design’...
Episode #148 is a conversation with a returning guest, Naida Grunden (previous episode) and her co-author Charles Hagood (of Healthcare Performance Partners), talking about...
DirecTV Makes it Hard to Cancel & Move
I've been a happy DirecTV customer since 2007, when I switched from cable so I could get the Big Ten Network when it launched...
Lean on Alaska Public Radio
After meeting him at a conference a few years back, I consider Patrick Anderson, executive director of Chugatchmiut, to be a good friend in...
