Mark Graban

Mark Graban
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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.

Funny: The Most Interesting Lean Thinker in the World

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This is too good not to share. The team at a startup called Buffer  created a list of Lean Startup concepts in the guise...

Standardized, but Not Identical – College Basketballs

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As the main days of the men's NCAA basketball tourney ("March Madness") start Thursday, here's a topic that might make for fun Lean discussion...

Guest Post: Healthcare Kaizen in The Netherlands

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Mark's note: Thanks to Freek Dekker for this guest post. I met Freek at last year's Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit, as he was part...

Eric Ries On How Taiichi Ohno’s Ideas Shaped The Evolution Of...

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Episode #142 brings us a returning guest (#115), Eric Ries, author of the best-selling book The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create...

Upcoming Web Radio Show and Webinar

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I wanted to let you know about an upcoming web radio show (tomorrow) and webinar (next week) that I'll be participating in. Results-Only Radio: ROWE,...

Momentum of Lean Healthcare Design Continues to Build

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Oh geez, that's an awful pun in the post title. Sorry. As an increasing number of health systems are using "Lean design" approaches for...

Wasted Data Entry on my Microwave – Why Enter the Date??

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March 11, 2012 -- daylight savings time starts and it's time to revisit this post from August 2011... and to set the date and...

Join Me at Lean Healthcare PowerDay, 4/10/12 in Las Vegas

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I'm thrilled to be part of an amazing program at the Lean Healthcare PowerDay event being sponsored by Healthcare Performance Partners in Las Vegas,...

Thoughts on Patient Safety Awareness Week

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March 4 to 10 has been "Patient Safety Awareness Week" from the National Patient Safety Foundation. I'm certainly in favor of patient safety and have...

Learning to See (and Spell) in the NHL

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Here's a funny little story I saw on ESPN today (Nicklas Grossmann reveals extra 'n'). Apparently when former Dallas Stars' defenseman  Nicklas Grossman entered...

Podcast #141 – Norman Bodek Remembers Taiichi Ohno of Toyota Production...

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Episode #141 is a chat with Norman Bodek, as he shares his recollections of working with Taiichi Ohno, one of the creators of the...

Two Lean Jobs in the New York HHC

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The country's largest public health system, the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation has two Lean healthcare jobs available and they've asked me...
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