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.
Better Healthcare Quality Won’t Cost Less This Way
Device Alerts Doctors To Items Left Behind After Surgery - Indiana News Story - WRTV IndianapolisHealthcare is often stuck in the mindset that's considered...
Dennis Quaid and a Discussion of Medical Mistakes Coming Up on...
Dennis Quaid Takes Oprah To Hospital That OD'd His Babies
This might be the first time I'm DVR-ing the Oprah show. Tomorrow, actor Dennis Quaid...
L.A.M.E. in Advertising
"L.A.M.E." is a term I created here on the Lean Blog meaning "Lean As Misguidedly Executed" (it's a forced acronym, I know... but it...
Just an Emergency
SHIPPING, SHIPBUILDING AND OFFSHORE NEWSToyota's overproduction and inventory emergency (thanks to Jason for the tip): Toyota is currently renting a ship in the Swedish...
Idiot Inspector for Idiot Corporation?
TheDay.com - Food safety problems slip by auditorsYou might remember my rants about the Idiot Corp... I mean Peanut Corporation of America. Just saw...
LeanBlog Podcast #64 – Jamie Flinchbaugh, “Coaching”
Here is LeanBlog Podcast #64, again with Jamie Flinchbaugh, co-author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Road. In this Podcast, we talk...
Lots of Summits, Any Progress on Fixing Health Care?
Ah, summits. I once watched Coach Pat Summitt's Tennessee Lady Volunteers take a 35 to 2 lead against my Northwestern Wildcats in the first...
Training Within Healthcare
Training Within Healthcare (TWI Newsletter) - PDF File
It's been a busy week, helping spread the word about Lean healthcare in Puerto Rico, something I'll...
Video Podcast Beta V 1.0 – Jamie Flinchbaugh on Coaching
OK, so here is episode #1 of the "beta" (if you will) LeanBlog Video Podcast. Our guest is our good friend Jamie Flinchbaugh. I...
Dr. Deming’s Role of a People Manager
I stumbled across these notes I had taken about 8 or 9 years ago based on a video lecture from Dr. Deming:W. Edwards Deming...
Upcoming Video Podcast, Getting Buy In for Standard Work
Hi everyone -- sorry there was no post this morning, my flight home landed at 1 am and I was exhausted this morning, taking...
Lean Healthcare Around the World
Hello from Connecticut.... it's always fascinating to me to see the spread of Lean healthcare around the world. When I attended the Lean Enterprise...
