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.
Be Careful with Copying
I got into the middle of this discussion on the Healthcare Management Engineers (HME) group on Yahoo.A question was posed:We're in the process of...
Win $200 in a Lean Essay Contest
Learn Lean Manufacturing !: Lean For Your Organization - How to add value to your organization using lean conceptsI've run contests before, but here's...
Updated: P&G "Forced" to Shorten Supply Chains, As Are Others
FT.com / Home UK / UK - Oil price forces P&G to rethink its distributionOK, I'm catching up on an old post since I...
Lean as a Superhero?
What people often think Lean is -- a superhero there to "save them" or to "make them Lean."
As illustrated below:
How people should really view...
Management Improvement Carnival #40
It's once again my pleasure to host the Carnival for John Hunter and his Curious Cat blog.Please submit your favorite management posts to the...
Speaking Engagements for the Fall
I'm happy to announce that I will be speaking at a few events and forums this fall. The firm I work for will also...
First Copies of my Book! (and Q&A Session)
Very exciting day, I have my first copies of my book, Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction, in hand!!!In other book...
"Lean Hospitals" Shipping Update
I've gotten a number of questions about Amazon.com showing late August as a shipping date now. It seems that the fastest / earliest way...
Joint Commission to Investigate Use of Lean & Six Sigma
Modern Healthcare Online ($$) | Fierce Healthcare (free)For those not in healthcare, the Joint Commission is a non-profit hospital accreditation organization. You might remember...
LeanBlog Podcast #49 – Gwendolyn Galsworth, More on Visual Displays and...
Episode #49 is another conversation with Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth, who you might remember from Episode #26 last year and Episode #45, which was the...
New Lean Hospitals Book Update — Shipping Soon?
Updated 7/29: Click here---------------------Updated 7/28: The book now shows as "In Stock" at www.productivitypress.com and amazon.com says it will be "in stock on...
Unnecessary "Be Careful" Labeling?
Not long ago, I purchased a universal airplane/auto adapter. There was a packaging insert that exhorted me, the user, to NOT insert the plug...
