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.
Learn from this "Home 5S" Tip
Household: De-Clutter with a Six-Month "Maybe Box"The site "lifehacker" is one of my favorite blogs. While not about "Lean" per se, there's often a...
Lean Blog Podcast #40 – An Anonymous UAW Retiree Who is...
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Here is LeanBlog Podcast #40, an interview with a retired UAW/GM employee who wishes to remain anonymous, at this point. We have traded many...
What Do You Think of This Sign?
A reader sent this picture from a hospital restroom. I'm not sure if the reader is a patient parent or a hospital employee. They...
New Sponsor: McKinsey’s "Tune Your Career" Event
I'd like to welcome a new sponsor to the Lean Blog: McKinsey & Company and their upcoming "Tune Your Career" event they are holding...
Be Careful Overdoing the "Shine" in Your 5S Efforts
TheStar.com | Drinks | Yeast goes wild in Trappist aleOne of my favorite discoveries in the past year is a Belgian "Trappist Ale" called...
Using Lean and Cost Reduction to Counter Rising Materials Costs
E-Z-GO's Kevin Holleran 040608 - The Augusta ChronicleOn this blog, we often talk about the Lean concept that a company is not entitled to...
"Leaner, but Not Meaner" – In a Hospital
Leaner, but Not Meaner | workforce.comIt's always nice to see a headline NOT using the cute (but usually inaccurate) "lean and mean" construct. It's...
Lean Elements in NCAA Hoops?
Guest Post By Mike Thelen:New Offense Leads Calipari, Memphis Within One Win of National ChampionshipGreat article on the Memphis basketball team. Do you...
Misuse of the "Customer" Concept
FAA too cozy with airlines, whistle-blowers say | ajc.comAs a frequent flyer, it's really troubling anytime you read about systemic problems in the aviation...
The Term "L.A.M.E." is Spreading
Last year, in a fit of creativity, I coined the awkward term "L.A.M.E." -- Lean As Misguidedly Executed or, alternatively Lean as Mistakenly Executed.Either...
Conferences, Future and Recent
The W. Edwards Deming InstituteThis has to be the best title for a seminar ever:How to Create Unethical, Ineffective Organizations That Go Out of...
Nice ThedaCare Article
JS Online: Tending to improvements in health careHere's a nice overview article about the Lean efforts of the ThedaCare health system in Wisconsin.Some highlights:ThedaCare...
