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.
L.A.M.E.: Not Involving Key Stakeholders
Got this story during an email exchange, used with express permission:-----------------------------I saw my doctor yesterday and told him I was doing a lean publication,...
It’s NOT the Fault of GM’s Workers
NPR : Reasons for GM Slide Go Beyond Work ForceHonestly, I'd expect more from liberal NPR and their headline. You'd expect NPR to...
Lean Could Have Helped Hershey
New Haven Register - Bitter EndingThanks to Lean Blog reader Tom for sending this my way, sad story that it is.Hershey's candy is moving...
LeanBlog Contest: Visual Management (Win an iPod Nano!)
Sponsored by American-LEDgible, Inc.It's time for another LeanBlog Contest! Update: Deadline is May 18Submit your Visual Management stories and get a chance...
Group Health Cooperative Lean Leaders and Executive Panel Discussion – LeanBlog...
Episode #23 of the LeanBlog Podcast features a panel of Lean leaders from the Group Health Cooperative, a consumer-governed, nonprofit health care system that...
A Defect in My Morning Coffee Routine
I could have also titled this post "I screwed up!" or "Who Screwed Up? Me!" but we try not to point the finger...
Everyday Lean on TV in Denmark
From blog reader, Peter, in Denmark:
Hello again Mark.
Half a year ago I reported on a story in Denmark concerning Lean in the kindergarten.
Now I...
A Lean Perspective on Employee Shortages
I heard a great comment on Monday from a hospital President.He said, quite passionately, I might be paraphrasing slightly:"We don't have a shortage of...
L.A.M.E.: Thinking Lean is about Low Inventory
IndustryWeek : When Not To Go LeanHere's another concept of Lean As Misguidedly Executed. I could nitpick the title of the IW piece,...
Do you "Embrace your Misses?"
Another great thought from David Mann this week was highlighting how a Lean culture will "embrace it's misses" rather than try to cover them...
Darn Big Pieces on the Darn Big Loader
Big pieces of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner arrive | Seattle Times NewspaperThis is really Kevin Meyer's issue at Evolving Excellence, but I can't resist blogging...
LEI Response to "Lean Killed Rover?"
Check out the comments below this earlier post to see an initial response from the Lean Enterprise Institute's Chet Marchwinski. He promises a...
