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.
Interview about Lean Software
InfoQ: InfoQ Interview: Mary and Tom Poppendieck on using Lean for Competitive AdvantageOn the page above is the intro to a video interview with...
Would Lean Work in Small MD Practices?
medinnovationblog: Systematic Innovation in U.S. Health Care: Toyota's Lean Manufacturing Method and Its Application to Health CareA post here from the "medinnovationblog" site. ...
SPC and Lean
Got a question yesterday from Eric Christiansen, my guest for episode #18 of the LeanBlog Podcast.
He asked:
Can a company be considered a lean company...
Another Sad Example of Gaming the System: Validation Engineering
Back to my original post about gaming the system, there are three ways people can respond to pressure to improve:
They can work to improve...
GM Got Gamed (Or, How to Fudge Your Production Numbers to...
Following up on my post about my recent experience with metrics and processes being distorted (and my less-than-perfect Lean coaching efforts), I was thinking...
We Got Gamed (Lab Specimen Batch Sizes)
A somewhat recent experience prompted me to re-read portions of Donald Wheeler's outstanding book, Understanding Variation: The Key to Managing Chaos, with its section...
NY Times Magazine on Toyota – Part 2
From 0 to 60 to World Domination - New York TimesMore from Sunday's long NY Times piece...We're used to Jeff Liker saying good things...
WSJ Readers Beating up on GM
Dream Cars: Made-to-Order Line Could Restore Pride in American Autos - WSJ.comThe WSJ published a group of letters critical of GM in response to...
Eric Christiansen on Being CEO of a Deming Company – LeanBlog...
Here is Episode #18 of the LeanBlog Podcast. My guest today is Eric Christiansen, the President of a translation services company, OmniLingua (more can...
NY Times Magazine on Toyota — Part 1
From 0 to 60 to World Domination - New York Times
From yesterday's New York Times Magazine, this is a very long, meaty article about...
Ford must copy Toyota, which copied Ford
Detroit Free Press CommentaryExcellent commentary here from columnist Tom Walsh. He says, in part: GM and Ford butchered the lean-production system in subsequent...
Reminded of Tom Peters – Big, Slow, Dopey Companies
GM in early talks to buy Chrysler: source - Yahoo! News
I'm reminded of hearing Tom Peters ask once:
"What do you expect when one big,...
