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.
Nike Plans to "Just Do It" with Lean?
Perspectives in Responsible Sourcing: June 3, 2007 - June 9, 2007Nike is out with its most recent "Corporate Responsibility Report." As Rachelle Jackson...
Improving the ER on "ER"
YouTube - Improving the ER on ERI don't always watch the NBC show ER, but this portion caught my attention when my wife was...
Interesting Toyota Corporate History
Toyota Motor Corp.: Information from Answers.comLeft: Banner that reads "Good Thinking, Good Products" (Toyota, circa early 1950's, source: Toyota)Here's a fairly complete seeming...
Don’t Look for "Lean" in the PC Industry
How H-P Reclaimed Its PC Lead Over Dell - WSJ.comToday's WSJ article doesn't focus on the Dell layoffs (although it does mention them, as...
Step 1: Anger Employees, Step 2: Mollify Them
Northwest Air, Out of Chapter 11, Aims to Mollify Customers, Labor - WSJ.comMollify (v): to soften in feeling or temper, as a person;...
Embracing Problems at Google
In David Mann's book, Creating A Lean Culture: Tools To Sustain Lean Conversions, he talks about the need to "embrace problems" as a key...
Nissan’s Mock Assembly Lines
Mock Assembly Lines Work Out Glitches: Financial News - Yahoo! FinanceNissan has struggled with quality (particularly in their Mississippi plant), so they are taking...
LeanBlog Podcast #26 – Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth on Visual Workplace and...
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Episode #26 of the LeanBlog Podcast brings us Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth, of the Visual Lean Institute. She is the author, most recently of the...
The Growing Patient Safety Movement
The Informed Patient - WSJ.comThis article from the WSJ talks about a trend where patients (or, more often, family members of patients) who were...
Lean and Economic Development
JS Online: Editorial: A new way of thinking:Wisconsin is mentioned frequently here on the Lean Blog, with many small and mid-sized companies, in particular,...
Global Lean Healthcare Summit – 2007
Lean Enterprise Academy > The First Global Lean Healthcare Summit - 2007I'm very fortunate to be attending this conference, sponsored and run by Dan...
New Book from Chuck Yorke
Book LinkThere's a new book from Chuck Yorke, co-author of the book All You Gotta Do Is Ask with Norm Bodek.The new book can...
