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.
Fixed the Streaming Podcast Player
For those of you who listen to the LeanBlog Podcasts using the streaming player in the browser, that is now fixed. That had...
A Wisconsin Lean Story
Metal expands when it's hotHere's a story from a small company that's grown from $3m to $10m in revenue, in part due to Lean...
How Specific an Example Do You Need?
From the Northwest Lean Network email listserv, about a week ago:" I...
Blame the Vendor or Hospital Purchasing??
I'm sure most of you are familiar with or have used the Akro blue bins for organizing parts, tools, or a kanban system. The...
David Meier on the State of Lean Manufacturing and Management in...
LeanBlog Podcast #17 is a discussion with a good friend of the Lean Blog, David Meier, a former Toyota Georgetown Group Leader, founder of...
How Much of Football is VA?
My wife would say "zero!" I mentioned the Sunday NFL playoff games and got a note from a Lean Blog reader, Chris, saying:
I...
WSJ is STILL Shocked We Build Stuff Here
For Some Manufacturers, There Are Benefits to Keeping Production at Home - WSJ.com
This really is a recurring theme in the WSJ, this article starts:
"It...
When Do You Resort to Firing?
Blog reader Grant, in Australia, sent me an email newsletter from a lean training and consulting organization that will remain unnamed (as I don't...
Two New Lean Blogs
It's always nice to see new voices join the lean blogosphere, here are two very different blogs on lean.Lean Six Sigma Academy BlogFirst is...
New Dave Gleditsch IW Column
IndustryWeek : Transforming Your Business To Lean: Lessons LearnedHere's the latest column by Pelion Systems CTO Dave Gleditsch, featured here in an earlier LeanBlog...
Toyota’s New Plant?
AP Wire | 01/20/2007 | Toyota narrows choice for plant to two, newspaper reportsToyota is down to two choices, Arkansas, and Tennessee, supposedly. ...
Two Years of Lean Blogging
Lean Blog: Misunderstandings About Value Stream Mapping, Flow Analysis, and Takt Time
The link above is my first blog post, from January 2005 (back when...
