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.

A Nice Kaizen Example from the PACU

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"Kaizen" is a Japanese word that means "change for the better" in the context of ongoing "continuous improvement." The so-called "kaizen event," a weeklong...

A Lean Lesson from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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As we commemorate the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday, this quote caught my eye from one of Dr. King's Letters from a Birmingham...

A Lean Guy Watches Moneyball

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When it first came out, I was a big fan of Michael Lewis' book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game about the Oakland...

Welcome to a New Sponsor: CreativeSafetySupply.com

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I always like to give a brief shout out to new sponsors when I have them. I have a brand new sponsor, starting out...

Suggestion Boxes are Disliked & Ineffective Around the World

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I love employee ideas and continuous improvement, but I really dislike suggestion boxes. As I've said, they are well intended, but the whole suggestion...

Steve Jobs as a Model Leader? As a Manufacturing Leader?

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As I wrote about after his death, I am appreciative of the products and services that Steve Jobs brought to the world.  That said,...

An Inc. “Best Small Company Workplace” & Their Lean Culture

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As I was cleaning out a pile of stuff in my office, I found an unread issue of Inc. magazine from June 2011. One...

Kaizen Videos from a Franciscan “Kaizeneer”

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My Healthcare Kaizen  co-author Joe Swartz works in Indianapolis in the Franciscan St. Francis Health System. They use the term "kaizeneer" to describe those...

#Lean Blog Updates: 7 Years of Blogging, eBook & Podcasts on...

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Here are a few updates about my blog and my podcasts. For one, I've now been blogging for seven years now. I'll write a...

This Commercial is Not Exactly the “Five Whys”

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If you're watching college football bowls or the NFL playoffs, it's hard not to see this commercial from DirecTV. It's not exactly the reverse...

Lean in Your Life – Preventing Health Problems with Technology

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Continuing this first week of the year's theme of using Lean principles to improve our lives, I'm going to write about two pieces of...

Book Review: One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen...

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While doing research for my upcoming book on "Healthcare Kaizen," I found two books that touched on kaizen-style continuous improvement in our everyday lives....
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