Mark Graban

Produced in partnership with the Healthcare Value Network, episode #119 is a discussion with Dean Gruner, MD, the president & CEO of ThedaCare. Here, we talk about Strategy Deployment as a Lean management system and how it fits into their ongoing management and improvement efforts in their health system.

I know about 35% of you are reading from outside of the United States, but it is a national holiday here today, Memorial Day....

Here is a video from the St. Louis Beacon (actually, an NPR-style audio story with pictures) about Lean healthcare at Virginia Mason Medical Center,...

Today's post is a short one, a bit of a visual puzzler and a reader participation post (leave a comment!). If you were in the...

First off, a huge thumbs up and thanks are due to Eric Ries and his thought-provoking "Startup Lessons Learned" conference on the "Lean Startup"...

Here is the long overdue Part 4 of our video discussion series about Lean Healthcare Design, featuring Miguel Burbano, an architect and Senior Vice...

I'm always happy when the wisdom of Dr. W. Edwards Deming spreads in modern social media, almost 20 years after his passing. His message...

It's alphabet soup Saturday, as this IHI PDSA video comes from a PhD, Robert Lloyd. A great basic overview (or refresher course) for anyone...

I stumbled across a surprising use of the word "kaizen" the other day from a surprising source - TV entertainment reporter and actress Maria...

I heard a story on NPR last week profiling New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan, "In Football And Life, Ryan Plays Like He...

It's my second post about the TV show Grey's Anatomy, the first being "McDreamy" Fights the Blame Game on "Grey's Anatomy." Each post makes...

Thanks to Patrick Vlaskovits, a guest in my Podcast episode #99, for posting a photo of a Southwest Airlines magazine blurb about Steve Blank,...