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.
UK Hospitals Gemba Walk the U.S.
I was sent a nice "gemba report" essay from a UK lean healthcare consultant, Andrew Castle. Andrew consults for the UK National Health Service...
A Leaner Message Delivered by UPS
For some context, here are my complaints about UPS ads from earlier today and from last year.
Thanks to the "create your own whiteboard" feature...
Exploring the BBC’s Take on Lean Production at Toyota and Ford:...
The BBC highlights lean practices and provides a stunning contrast between Toyota and Ford in this article:
BBC NEWS | Business | The triumph of...
Toyota to join Nissan in MS?
Toyota said to build plant in Mississippi - Feb. 27, 2007Looks like Toyota's rumored U.S. expansion continues.Toyota is under pressure to boost production in...
What Can Brown Do? They Dumb It Down For Us
The UPS Whiteboard. What Can Brown Do For You?
These "whiteboard" ads with the guy with the long hair (Mark Fields would be proud!) drawing...
Ford’s Fields in Folicle Fantasy Land
Mullet or not, Fields' hair is talk of the auto industry
Mullet-wearing Ford exec plans to keep it
I know it's juvenile of me to point...
Great Find on an Early Lean Hospital
Got Boondoggle?: The First Lean HospitalMike Wroblewski deserves a lot of credit for digging this up.... early attempt at a lean hospital in a...
Cost vs. Nimbleness at The Gap
Paul Pressler's Fall From The Gap:Saw this in Business Week yesterday:"As part of the supply chain revamping, Pressler also tinkered with the way the...
Support a Former Ford Employee’s Education
I got an email last week, from Dan, a long-time Ford employee who took a buyout and is now working on a college degree....
Carnival of Posts from the Lean Blogosphere
I'm down with the flu (and stuck out of town in a hotel room after an attempted early trip home was canceled due to...
Toyota and "Gung Ho"
Why Toyota Is Afraid Of Being Number One
In this Business Week piece about Toyota's fear of a backlash against them, with their continued success,...
Intel, Motion Develop Tablet PC for Nurses – WSJ.com
Intel, Motion Develop Tablet PC for Nurses - WSJ.comMore news stories via Google.Is this a "siren song" of technology for healthcare? Executives and...
