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.
What’s Your Role in Hospital Quality?
I snapped this pic while visiting a hospital earlier this year. This was out in the cafeteria as part of a series of signs...
Command-and-Control Killed this Cosmonaut? Lessons for Our Organizations…
Lean is not a "command and control" leadership and management model. The old command-and-control dynamic leads to so much poor quality and misery in...
Weekend Fun: The Management Methods, They Are a-Changin’
Fans of Bob Dylan and Mike Rother's book Toyota Kata will appreciate this song especially:
Interview Today with Prof. Samuel Culbert – Questions on Annual Reviews?
Today, I am recording a podcast interview with Prof. Samuel Culbert from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. He is author of the...
An Astronaut’s Viewpoints on Systems & Patient Safety
Today, I'm sharing a brilliant Slate.com interview:
"Risky Business: James Bagian "NASA astronaut turned patient safety expert" on Being Wrong."
He's actually also an...
Jim Womack on Gemba Walks, Lean Leadership, and Lessons for Healthcare
In Episode #116 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast, Mark Graban talks with Jim Womack, founder and former Chairman of the Lean Enterprise Institute....
GM Blames Layoffs on the Japan Earthquake and JIT; Should Instead...
Here is a sad article with the headline"General Motors lays off workers at NY plant." This is an addition to earlier Shreveport layoffs.
The media...
Updating “A Vision for a Lean Hospital”
I am working on finishing up the revised and updated edition of my first book Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction....
Collected Employee Engagement & Satisfaction Improvement Statistics – Lean Healthcare
I'm going to use this blog post / page to collect published statistics about the impact the Lean management philosophy has had on healthcare...
Survey: Title & Subtitle for My Second Book on “Kaizen” and...
Hi - As a reader of my blog, your input and thoughts are important to me.
I am currently co-authoring a new book with Joe...
Check Out the Healthcare Value Network Podcast Series
One of my projects with LEI and the Healthcare Value Network is a podcast series I am hosting featuring leaders from our various Network...
From the LEI Summit: Mike Rother on Toyota’s View on ROI
I really had a great learning experience at last week's LEI Lean Transformation Summit that was held here in Dallas. The event sold out...
