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.
Lean and Safety Go Together
Don't Strain Yourself
Here is a great article about how a company has implemented lean to improve safety. Concepts like 5S and waste reduction...
Toyota Video Online
Lean Six Sigma Academy Blog: The Toyota WayHere is s news story that Ron, at the Lean Six Sigma Academy Blog, found on YouTube....
Pull System for Soda Machine?
Learning about LeanJoe Ely has popped up on his blog with an interesting post about a potential pull system for stocking soda machines with...
Kaizen Newspapers Discussion
LeanBlog Message BoardWe're getting some good discussion at times on the Message Board, people helping each other out with their lean challenges. Check...
Moving Assembly Lines = "Lean?"
Airbus cuts costs by learning from auto industry - MarketWatchHere's an article that talks about Airbus and their lean efforts.The moving production line, which...
"The Vicissitudes of Over-production"
Why U.S. automakers like GM and Ford are losing money - Jan. 26, 2007Wow, leave it to a professional journalist to spin a phrase...
A Tax On Bad Management
U.S. Car Makers Stand to Gain From Bush Plans - WSJ.com:"Though many factors have contributed to the industry's woes, soaring health-care costs are a...
A Different “Lock Box”? Why Are Suggestion Boxes Locked So Often?
No, this isn't about Al Gore and his infamous Social Security "lock box."
This is about suggestion boxes that we sometimes see hanging on the...
Waste in Your Mailbox
Productivity Cafe: Stop Junk MailLean Blog reader Osvaldo brought this up as an example of waste -- mail that ends up in your mailbox...
Giving Employees Permission to Change
I went through a discussion today that reminded me of a similar situation early in a lean effort at my old manufacturing company a...
A Hospital Death in Florida
Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog: A woman dies after receiving 8 grams of DilantinI read about this on the blog linked above and the...
Lean Suits Story on NPR
NPR : Suit Maker Goes 'Lean' to Keep Jobs in U.S.I'll comment more on this later, but this was on NPR this morning. ...
