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.
Neither Lean Nor Green: People Who Send Me Stuff I Didn’t...
Channeling my inner Andy Rooney...
I try to be a lean thinker and a lean guy. I'm all for reducing and eliminating waste. Where that...
Starbucks Pricing on Cost or Value??
Starbucks boosts prices on some beverages - USATODAY.com
There are no direct "lean" fingerprints on the news stories about Starbucks adjusting their prices, but let's...
An Update on Lean in a New Zealand Emergency Dept
You might remember a 2008 blog piece about early Lean efforts in New Zealand hospital (Dunedin hospital), where the primary aim was reducing...
Q&A #3 – Michael Balle, "The Lean Manager" – Medication Errors
I recently invited questions for Michael Balle, the author of the Shingo Prize winning book The Gold Mine: A Novel of Lean Turnaround. He...
College Colors Day
Keeping things a bit off topic and relaxed for a holiday weekend in the U.S., today is "College Colors" day. In hindsight, the picture...
So Where Did Scott Go?
If you had been following Scott McDuffee's weekly "Lean Leap to Healthcare" posts that documented his attempts to transition from "lean manufacturing" into "lean...
Probably Not Meant to be an Illustration of “5S”
I was watching the NBC web series (via iTunes podcasts) called "Ctrl" the other day (I'm a big fan of Tony Hale from the...
"A different and hopeful way of thinking about" healthcare
Below is a guest post from fellow author and Lean Healthcare practitioner, Naida Grunden.Her book, The Pittsburgh Way to Efficient Healthcare: Improving Patient Care...
Confirmed: Toyota to Shut Down NUMMI Production
It's been long rumored, but is now confirmed by Toyota that they are going to stop production at their ground breaking NUMMI plant in...
Quality and Cost Always Go Together with Lean Thinking
This is an old story, from May, that I've meant to write about for a while. Peter Orszag, the Director of the Office of...
New Blog: "Grand Rounds"
I'd like to welcome a new blogger to the Lean Healthcare space: Thomas L. Jackson of Rona Consulting and author of these books:
Hoshin Kanri...
Two Types of Cycle Time = Confusing
This blog post started as a parenthetical comment about cycle time in my last blog post from this morning. But the parenthetical grew out...
