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.
"Unavoidable" Plant Closing?
Tecumseh To Close Wisconsin Plant; 320 Employees To Lose Jobs
This is a disappointing article after we normally read such good lean news from the...
Made in the USA: TVs
The No-Name Brand Behind the Latest Flat-Panel Price War - New York Times:Another article about the Olevia brand (featured here before), which builds HDTV's...
Misguided ‘Office Lean’: How Bad 5S Practices Give Lean a Bad...
A few weeks back, the British media was having a field day with reports of and complaints about what sounds like a horribly misguided...
GM Bows to Pressure
GM agrees to change robot suicide ad after objections - Feb. 9, 2007GM has bowed to pressure from suicide prevention groups, but still doesn't...
2007 Shingo Winners Announced
The Shingo Prize for Excellence in ManufacturingThe manufacturing prize winners have been announced.Please check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org
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What you Permit, you Promote
StuderGroup - Conversations with Quint StuderAnother great discussion from Quint Studer's management blog (I hate to call it a "healthcare blog" because that might...
A Dynamo Called Danaher
Business Week
I don't think the Danaher story is such a secret to those of us in the Lean world, but Business Week has discovered...
Suicide Prevention Group Blasts GM
GM sticking with robot suicide ad criticized by group - CNNFor different reasons than the reasons why I didn't like the ad, but groups...
A Potentially Improper Way to Monitor Standard Work?
Minot Daily NewsBefore any of the "fake lean" companies out there get any lousy ideas, let's discuss this. No, I'm not being...
Japan Airlines and "TPS"
JAL boss puts job on the line | FT business | The Australian
JAL is planning on using the Toyota Production System as part of...
Book Review: Lean Kaizen
By Luke Van Dongen:Name of Book: Lean Kaizen: A Simplified Approach to Process ImprovementsAuthors: George Alukal & Anthony ManosPublication Date: 2006Reviewed By: Luke Van...
A Lean, Sign-Making Machine
Century Sign Builders is a Lean, green machine - MSNBC.comHere is a nice case study news story about a small sign making company that...
