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.
April Fool: A New Way to Learn Lean? Wii Lean!
Note: I edited the post title on April 3 to make it clear this was an April Fool's Joke. Comments posted by readers on...
A Lean Urban Legend/Myth Busted about Toyoda and Toyota Names?
Last month, in the midst of Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda's appearance in front of Congress, there was a little sidebar in the USA Today...
Interview with Prof. Steven J. Spear on Applications of Lean in...
Episode #87 is a discussion with a returning guest, Steven J. Spear, DBA author of the outstanding book Chasing the Rabbit: How Market Leaders...
Dr. Deming – “More Relevant Than Ever”
Being a huge fan of Dr. W. Edwards Deming, especially so some 17 years after his death, I like any article that concludes with...
Dr. Don Berwick, Supporter of Lean Healthcare, to be New Obama...
Dr. Donald Berwick (bio), founder of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, has reportedly named by President Obama to head Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
NPR on the “End of the Line” at NUMMI and My...
Here's some Saturday morning listening... a story from yesterday's "All Things Considered" on the "End of the Line" at the NUMMI plant (the GM...
4 Complicated Words vs. 4 Easy Ones
My friend and guest blogger Liz Guthridge ("The Lean Communicator") would get a kick out of this.
I was at a meeting recently and a...
Apple & Microsoft – Please Move “Control-W”!!!!
I'm a very frequent computer user and I'm pretty good with the ole' shortcut keys, on both Mac and Windows (I'm bi-lingual).
I remember when...
Of 777s and Heart Rate Monitors
In recent years, healthcare has been learning a lot of lessons from aviation -- including checklists and "Crew Resource Management," as written about in...
Special “Gemba Academy” DVD Offer
My friend and neighbor Ron Pereira (his blog and twitter pages) is a partner in the Gemba Academy online Lean training efforts. Yes, neighbor....
LeanBlog Podcast #86 – David Sundahl, PhD, “Adaptive Design” and Lean...
Episode #86 is a conversation with David Lawrence Sundahl, PhD, Managing Director of Rule 4 Consulting. They are a firm that works with healthcare...
How Checklists Help Me Produce and Host My Podcasts
Regular followers of my blog know that I've been creating audio podcasts since 2006. Later today (at 3 PM), I am publishing #86 in...
