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.
Guest Post: The Hidden Gold on the Frontlines
Mark's note: Today's guest post comes to us from Ireland and a lean consultant and author named Andy Brophy. He has a new book...
How Many Hospitals Have Quit Lean Efforts?
I was asked a really good question today, a simple question that probably has a complex answer:
How many hospitals have gotten discouraged and quit...
A New Book That Says “Incrementalists Need Not Apply”
I'm very interested in the interface between healthcare architecture, space design, and processes. I've seen so many cases where poor design (often done without...
Seeking Submissions for “Patient Flow” Track – SHS 2011
I've participated in the last two Society for Health Systems conferences, as a presenter, and I'm looking forward to attending the 2011 event in...
Report: CPOE Technology is Not a Silver Bullet (No Surprise?)
Lean thinkers and TPS advocates sometimes get a bad rap as being Luddites. That's not true, I'd say it's more that Lean thinkers have...
New Book: “Laugh, Sing, and Eat Like a Pig”
One of the people I've been fortunate to meet in the last year is Dave deBronkart, aka "e-Patient Dave." I saw e-PD present at...
Podcast #94 – Bob Miller on Dr. Stephen Covey and the...
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Episode #94 of the LeanBlog Podcast is here and our guest is Robert Miller, Executive Director of the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence....
Video Podcast #11 – Norman Bodek, “How to Do Kaizen” Part...
Video #11 features Norman Bodek talking about some of the ideas in his most recent book, How to do Kaizen: A new path to...
A First-Person Lean Leadership Story from John Toussaint, MD
I've had the pleasure to work with Dr. John Toussaint, CEO of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, over the past year. John's...
WSJ Wrongly Blames Apple Inventory Problems on “Lean Manufacturing”
OK, so I'll admit I had a case of "rabbit ears" when I took the WSJ to task for calling the doomed BP Deepwater...
Do You Know More Than a Hospital CEO About…
If you're a regular reader of my Lean Blog, you might know more about preventing Hospital Acquired Infections than many healthcare CEOs do, says...
Lean Leads to Green, Which Supports Lean
Forgive me if some Texas pride comes through in this post, as well as some former-client pride. The clinical laboratory team at Children's Medical...
