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.
LeanBlog Podcast #41 – Jeff Liker on His Book Toyota Culture,...
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Here is LeanBlog Podcast #41 with Dr. Jeffrey Liker, Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. Dr. Liker is most...
Reducing the Waste of Waiting in the NFL Draft
NFL teams play hurry-up offense in draft - USATODAY.comI'm not a huge NFL Draft geek. It's on right now, but I'm watching some hockey...
Meeting Norman Bodek for the First Time; Healthcare and Mistakes
Last week, I had the honor and pleasure of meeting Norman Bodek in person for the first time. After all of our podcasts and...
Cleaning up the LeanBlog Backlog
Time is short for a full post, so here's an effort to clean out the backlog and to give you some links to check...
Reader Question: GM and Lean
From Devin, a graduate student, posted with his permission: "I'm an operations management student who is writing a report on lean manufacturing at GM....
Thinking is For Factories, Too
Seth's Blog: Henry Ford and the source of our fear
I really like Seth Godin's blog... but when he steps into "Lean" territory, he tends...
A Funny Fake News Story for Earth Day, A Sad Reality
Following up on Jason's post last week about China and pollution, here is a video from the fake (but deadpan funny) Onion News Network...
Updated: Holy Takt Time!
So I was watching some of the lead in to the Papal Mass in New York's Yankee Stadium. The reporter was talking to a...
The Dispersion of Toyota Talent
One of the most fascinating trends out of there is the spread of Toyota folks into other old-line automakers or parts suppliers -- Gary...
A Lean Hospital Example in Houston
St. Luke's adopts business approach to efficiency | Houston ChronicleHere's a nice case study / profile article in the news about St. Luke's Episcopal...
New Lean Enterprise Institute Survey
I'm not sure if the survey is available online, but I'm sure many of you just received the annual email survey from the Lean...
Mike Micklewright, Deming Impersonator
You might recall that I posted back in January about a "Deming impersonator" who was presenting/performing. Thank to that post, I...
