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.
30 Rock’s 6 Principles of 6 Sigma
My blog has gotten a lot of traffic since Thursday as people search for "30 rock jack welch" after his "acting" appearance on the...
A Week of Lean and Patient Involvement at BIDMC
I had the opportunity to finally meet "e-Patient Dave" at the HIMSS conference about 10 days ago, where he spoke on the topic of...
My Lean Healthcare Talk at MIT, 2009
Last July, I was fortunate to be invited to give a guest lecture at the MIT EdNet / Lean Advancement Initiative's Lean Healthcare Academy.
Here...
A Pharmacist’s Jail Cell Interview – What Good Does Blame Do?
Here's one to ponder and comment on - does putting a pharmacist in jail for six months and ruining his career and life do...
Another CEO Talk: “Can I Say That?”
The final keynote talk at the recent Society for Health Systems / ASQ Healthcare conference was given by Dr. Barry Silbaugh, a former hospital...
Video Interview with LEI’s Jim Womack
Jim Womack visited Lantech, a manufacturer of stretch wrappers and other packaging equipment. While there and visiting the "gemba," Jim was interviewed about Lean,...
VIBCO Helping Spread the Word About Lean in Healthcare
After two visits and gemba walks, I've become a big fan of the Lean work that's taking place at VIBCO, a manufacturer in Rhode...
President Obama at “the Gemba”
Keeping things light on a Saturday... New York Magazine has a funny photo story series of President Obama on tours of different factories and...
A Lean Guy Goes to #HIMSS10 Part 1
I'm about conferenced out! First was the excellent SHS/ASQ conference on healthcare operations improvement (read my posts), then the HIMSS conference focused on heathcare...
An Industrial Engineer as Hospital CEO
Last Friday at SHS/ASQ, I heard a talk by Michael Riordan, the CEO of the Greenville Hospital System in South Carolina.
He is one of...
How “Training With Industry” Helped in This Hospital Laboratory
On Friday, I co-presented at the Society for Health Systems / ASQ Healthcare Division conference in Atlanta. It was the first time this was...
Productivity Targets Getting in the Way of Productivity Improvement
Earlier this morning, I attended a presentation at SHS/ASQ about Lean implementation in multiple emergency rooms in a large health system. There were a...
