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: Don’t Market Without Your Kanban
Today's guest blogger is Joe Dager, of the site Business901. He's a very active blogger and podcaster and he's very active on Twitter (@Business901)...
Guest Post: The Secret to Lean is Saying No
Mark's note: Yes, I'm still on vacation. I'm very thankful for my cadre of guest bloggers, including today's guest, Jeff Hajek. Jeff is an...
Guest Post: Do You Get What I’m Saying?
Mark's note: Liz Guthridge has been a previous guest blogger and you can view a short introductory video with her here.
Today's post, like most...
Guest Post: Lean Lessons from the Non Profit World
Mark's note: I consider myself very fortunate to have met Patrick Anderson during my journeys in the Lean world. Patrick is the executive director...
Guest Post: Stop Improving and Start Eliminating
Mark's note: The vacation guest posts continue with a piece by a long-time friend of my blog, Matt Wrye. He's a frequent commenter and...
Guest Post: How to Have a Lean Party
Mark's note: Today's guest post is from a Michigander (I prefer that term over Michiganian, but I digress). Jon Wetzel, among other things, is...
Guest Post: Learning to See… and Feel
Mark's note: Today's guest blog post comes from a good friend of this blog and long-time reader and commenter Brian Buck. Brian blogs at...
Guest Post: “Do” Only Gets You Half the Way There, or…”No...
Mark's Note: Today's guest post comes from Mark Hamel, a recent recipient of the Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award for his book Kaizen...
Guest Post: Linking the Lean Enterprise
Mark's note: Today's guest blogger is Jim Huntzinger, the organizer of many topical Lean Summits including Lean Accounting, Training Within Industry, and Lean and...
Guest Post: Operations-based Healthcare Design
Mark's note: Today's guest post is by Alica Simmer, a Senior Healthcare Consultant with KHC. I'm happy to have her as a guest blogger...
Guest Post: 7 Lean Ideas For Lawyers
Mark's note: Today's vacation guest post is from D. Mark Jackson, a lawyer who has been studying and embracing Lean principles in a California...
Guest Post: The Role of Middle Management in Toyota or a...
Mark's note: Today is the first of a series of guest posts that will appear over the next two weeks from a variety of...
