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.
The USPS Should Error Proof This
Express Mail: USPS Says Guaranteed Overnight Isn't Guaranteed. What?
Saw this post on The Consumerist blog about how the United States Postal Service does NOT...
Lean in a Liverpool Hospital
Follow Royal's example on waiting lists, hospitals told - Liverpool Daily Post.co.ukNice story from here in the UK (where I am right now), about...
The Risks of Superficial Change
Rupert Cornwell: Cuban leader must learn from Gorbachev's mistakes - Commentators, Opinion - The IndependentI was reading this column yesterday and I thought of...
Lean Can Help Fight High Transport Costs
Stung by Soaring Transport Costs, Factories Bring Jobs Home Again - WSJ.comLean thinkers have long advocated the benefits of having a shorter supply chain...
LeanBlog Podcast #46 — Dean Bliss, Lean Healthcare
Episode #46 is a chat with a good friend of the Lean Blog, Dean Bliss, a Lean Improvement Specialist with the Iowa Health System....
The President of Johns Hopkins Believes In Lean
Johns Hopkins Gazette | June 9, 2008From the online newsletter of William R. Brody, president of The Johns Hopkins University. He writes: ...
‘Lean" (Toyota Production System) is Not Just for "Lean Times" (Bad...
Grand Forks Herald | News in area business (scroll down)From a North Dakota newspaper... see if you can spot the part of the article...
Chrysler matches Toyota in a Single Skew-able Metric – Who Cares?
Chrysler matches Toyota in efficiency - Detroit NewsI didn't mean for this to become "beat up on the Detroit Three" week... this comes in...
Using Lean Simulations to Spur Emergency Room Improvement
Institute for Healthcare Improvement: Getting Lean in the EDHere is a story that includes examples of Lean improvements at Rockford Health System in Rockford,...
Deming Overview Article in the News
The Whig Standard - Ontario, CAI'm always curious when I see an article like this in the news about the late Dr. W. Edwards...
GM to try to Inspect Quality In After Letting Experience Walk...
GM preps for new hires after buyoutsThis is a particularly sad story. We often debate the proper role of layoffs and headcount reductions in...
An MD/CEO In Indiana Believes in Lean
Doctor takes pulse of Lutheran Health | The Journal Gazette:Here's an article about Dr. Mike Schatzlein, Chief executive officer for Lutheran Health Network...
