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.
Great Op-Ed from Paul O’Neill on REALLY Improving Healthcare
Op-Ed Contributor - Health Care's Infectious Losses - NYTimes.com
FINALLY, a major contribution to the discussion about how we need to improve the quality of...
Do Ideas Go "Poof" at Starbucks?
By Mark Graban:I'm always fascinated by Starbucks. For one, I'm a regular customer and Starbucks has a reputation for hiring pretty educated people as...
I Sometimes Sort of Hate My Book’s Title, I Think
Another interesting discussion that came up during my trip to The Netherlands... my book's title: Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction (see...
Bad News not Flowing Either Direction at GM?
Last week, I blogged about an episode where bad news wasn't flowing up in Boeing (or, it's part of a pattern).
In my Sunday morning...
How Does Your Team React to a New Person?
I 've mentioned here, I think, that I was in The Netherlands earlier in June for almost a week. I was invited to speak...
A Breakthrough in Training — Call it "Near-TWI"
I'm very pleased to present a guest post from Arizona about the successful use of Lean concepts and, more specifically, the "Training Within Industry"...
"Do" Lean or "Be" Lean in IT?
Lean & IT « IT Business Alignment (IT2B)Oops... I accidentally hit "publish" instead of "save as draft." For a Lean guy, I don't...
Breaking: GM Dumps NUMMI Partnership with Toyota
After 25 years, GM ditches NUMMI tie-up with Toyota
In the news this afternoon:
PRESS RELEASE:
2009-06-29
GM Media Statement Regarding GM's Ownership Stake in NUMMI
Attributable to Troy...
Book Review: "Kaizen Express"
I have always learned a lot from John Shook. As I've blogged about before, I've seen John present about TPS and management (leadership, really)...
Clear and Relevant Metrics
By Matt Wrye:
I have been implementing lean over the last 10 years at five different companies. Only during the last eight years and...
The Power of Explaining Why – A Funny Example
This sign and picture might be a bit rude, so I saved this for a Saturday.
To me, a very powerful and often unknown principle...
Bad News Not Flowing Up at Boeing?
Tomorrow's blog post today... not that anyone will be reading anything non-Michael Jackson related. RIP. A modern tidbit... I learned about the news via...
