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.
A Thoughtful Commencement Message from Stephen Colbert
I'm a proud graduate of Northwestern University, industrial engineering class of 1995. Our '95 commencement speaker was the newly installed president of the university......
Beware Your Leadership Shadow
Last week, at the 2nd annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit, I moderated the CEO Panel discussion that featured four excellent Lean leaders: Jim FitzPatrick...
Introducing Dr. Les Muda: The World’s First Lean Healthcare Comedian
In today's post, I'm happy to introduce Dr. Les Muda, the World's First Lean Healthcare Comedian. First and perhaps the last.
Dr. Muda sent...
Mark Graban: Announcement on My Future Professional Direction (2011)
Today, I'm announcing an evolution of my work life: doing less with the Lean Enterprise Institute, doing more consulting and speaking, and starting to...
Rest in Peace, Eli Goldratt, 1947-2011
Yesterday, we lost a great guru in the process and business improvement worlds, Eliyahu M. Goldratt, who passed away at the age of 64....
Newt Endorses Lean & Six Sigma for Government; Staff Quits on...
I met Newt Gingrich at the Ontario Hospital Association conference in late 2009, as I blogged about here: "Meeting Newt Gingrich, a Lean Champion."
Yesterday...
Summit 2011: Lean Transformation Videos from St. Boniface Hospital
We had a great first day at our Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit in Seattle (with lots of tweets from attendees you can follow along...
Opportunities for Domestic Medical Tourism to Lean Hospitals?
There was an interesting article in the most recent Inc. Magazine called "Domestic Medical Tourism: How one company is saving businesses big bucks on...
Guest Post: The Chain of Improvement
Mark's note: Today's guest post is from Dr. Mark Jaben. I first met Mark in person at Cindy Jimmerson's Lean Healthcare West conference in...
Stopping the Blame Game – Great Article from HBR
This one got stuck in the "stuff to blog about" pile for a few months, but HBR published a gem of an article called...
Vote for Real Healthcare Leaders in Modern Healthcare’s “Most 100 Influential”...
Vote for this year's "Modern Healthcare's Most 100 Influential" list. Click here.
Sadly, Dr. John Toussaint is not on the list of nominees.
I voted for...
Lean Lessons for Healthcare from a Boeing 737 Factory Video
Podcaster Cali Lewis (a fellow DFW-area Texan) hosts a show called GeekBeat.tv, where she normally highlights new consumer tech gadgets and nerdy robots from...
