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.
Medical Mistake in In-Vitro Fertilization: What’s More Effective, Blaming Process or...
IVF baby given to wrong woman - as couple's last embryo was aborted | Mail Online
This was front-page news in one of the UK...
Cost Crisis for the NHS? Quality Improvement Can Help?
Britain's health service "facing funding crisis" | Reuters:Watching the BBC morning news the other day, I took an interest in the discussion of the...
Formal Announcement of LEI/ThedaCare Lean Healthcare Network
Thought I'd share this here on the blog even though many of you might have gotten an email from Helen Zak at the LEI...
Doofus and Leanie Cartoon #3 – Just-in-Time
Here's the 3rd in the "Doofus and Leanie" series  (a parody of "Goofus and Gallant") this time obviously inspired by recent discussions about the...
Virginia Mason and Lean Healthcare on the CBS Evening News
A Carmaker As A Model For A Hospital? - CBS News
Virginia Mason Medical Center and their use of Lean and TPS was featured on...
Book Review – The Myth of Multitasking
The Myth of Multitasking - Dave Crenshaw
I am long overdue on a review of this book, which I feel bad about because I really...
LIFE Magazine August 1980 – Healthcare Costs Were 9% of GDP...
Yesterday, I shared some old auto industry images and clips from the August 1980 LIFE magazine. More striking to me was an ad from...
LIFE Magazine August 1980 – Auto Manufacturing
I ended up having the chance to flip through a LIFE magazine from August 1980 and, given that was also a major recessionary period,...
Pathology Mistakes (Again) on Oprah and in the News
After watching and blogging about the first half of Oprah's medical errors show that featured the story of Dennis Quaid's kids, I finally got...
My Daily Workaround: Deleting Commercial Emails
I had an epiphany the other day. It was one of those moments where I was pretty ashamed and was ready to turn in...
Criticism of Lean at Park Nicollet Hospital
Hard times curtail Park Nicollet's ambition
Minnesota's Park Nicollet health system is often held up as one of the leading "lean healthcare" examples in the...
Getting Started with Lean in Nursing
By Dean Bliss:One of the big challenges we have as Lean people is to get beyond presentations, classes, and posters, and get to the...
