Mark Graban
Mark Graban is an internationally-recognized consultant, author, and professional speaker, and podcaster with experience in healthcare, manufacturing, and startups.
Mark's new book is The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation.
He is also the author of Measures of Success: React Less, Lead Better, Improve More, the Shingo Award-winning books Lean Hospitals and Healthcare Kaizen, and the anthology Practicing Lean.
Mark is also a Senior Advisor to the technology company KaiNexus.
Toyota Applies Kaizen to Thanksgiving Charity Efforts
Here's a nice story about the Toyota Supplier Support Center helping a charitable organization with their holiday operations:
"Toyota applies production know-how to roll...
Podcast #104 – Dr. Peter Patterson (@IDrPete), Lean in Histopathology
Podcast #104 is a discussion with Dr. Peter Patterson (@IDrPete), a friend of mine and the Lean Blog the past few years. He wrote...
A Sad Report from an M.D. Friend, Overprocessing Driven by the...
As I blogged about on Friday, I was back at my alma mater, Northwestern, for a football game this weekend-- well, actually, I was...
Safety First – Even for a Northwestern Football Game at Wrigley...
I'm really excited that I'm going to be attending tomorrow's Northwestern football game that's being played at Wrigley Field, the legendary baseball stadium that...
Hoarders and Stashers? Ask Why…
Short post today, but a simple message, I think. One of the best lessons I've learned about Lean management is about the need to...
Don’t Let Benchmarking Replace Your Own Process Engineering
Through the @LEIhealthcare twitter account, one source of autotweets are the new threads started in the Lean Enterprise Institute forums.
One new thread was started...
Tampa Bay Business Journal Features Lean at Moffitt Cancer Center
The full article requires a subscription, but John Toussaint and I were each quoted in this article from last Friday: "Toyota techniques drive profit,...
Interview with Masaaki Imai – Ohno and Respect for People
The Kaizen Institute website has posted an excellent text Q&A with Masaaki Imai, who you might recognize as the author of the relatively early...
Podcast #103 – Matthew E. May, “The Shibumi Strategy”
My guest for Episode #103 is Matthew E. May, returning to talk about his latest book, a business fable called The Shibumi Strategy: A Powerful...
Daniel Pink on Alternatives to Annual Reviews
I saw a nice article by author Daniel Pink (most recently the author of Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us) called "Think...
Let’s Sign Documents Promising Not to Make Errors?
You might remember me blogging about the Indianapolis incident where three babies died after being mistakenly given an adult dose of heparin back in...
Why Nurses Should Reject “LAME” and Demand Lean
There's a long-standing argument that I've been dragged into with a group that calls itself "new systems thinkers." They loudly criticize Lean as being...
