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.
Reminder: My Free Webinar on “Healthcare Kaizen” – December 7
I am happy to be partnering with my friends at Gemba Academy to present the 2nd in their free Lean webinar series. My webinar...
New KaiNexus “Explainer Video” & Company Update
Regular readers know that I have been working for a software startup, KaiNexus, as we announced in June, in addition to my writing, consulting...
Shame on This Student for Paying Someone to do his Lean...
Hat tip to Michel Baudin for pointing this out (check out his relatively new blog). Freelancer.com is a site where you can outsource tasks...
Management Improvement Blog Carnival #150
The Management Improvement Carnival was started by my friend and fellow LeanDaily blogger John Hunter of the Curious Cat Management Improvement blog. My job...
ASQ Member Videos on Quality, Their Careers, and Their Lives
As mentioned in Monday's post with Podcast #131 (Paul Borawski, CEO of the American Society for Quality), ASQ had a contest where members could...
A Lean Guy Reads the Globe and Mail – Shoelaces &...
I was in Canada a few weeks back and two articles from the Globe and Mail newspaper caught my eye - stories from England...
Paul Borawski, the CEO of ASQ (American Society for Quality) on...
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My guest for episode #131 is Paul Borawski, the CEO of ASQ, the American Society for Quality. Today, we are talking about ASQ, their...
Berwick Steps Down as Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) Administrator
This made news on Wednesday - Dr. Donald M. (Don) Berwick stepped down as CMS Administrator: "Harvard professor Don Berwick resigns as Medicare chief."...
A Time to Give Thanks
It's the Thanksgiving holiday today for U.S. readers. I am thankful for my readers and listeners for inspiring me and challenging me.
Some holiday...
Interview with Dr. Les Muda, the World’s First #Lean Healthcare Comedian
You might remember Dr. Les Muda, the "World's First Lean Healthcare Comedian" (arguably the only one?) from a video back in June. He has...
An Interesting Take on the Use of Japanese Terms in Lean
Today, I'm linking to a post from a new blog written by the Ohio State University Fisher College of Business ("Think Op-Ex"). The post...
KaiNexus Education Video #3 – Eliminating Waste & NVA
Here is the third short, simple Kaizen education video from KaiNexus. We are embedding these videos into our web-based software, to provide short tips and hints...
