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.
Poor Quality Costs Hospitals
Hospital-acquired infections take toll on bottom lines - USATODAY.comOne of the problems that hospitals are trying to reduce, through lean methods and other good...
Lean in a Danish School
A blog reader from Denmark, Peter, emailed me about a school that is applying lean and "Japanese production philosophies" (no kidding). The original article...
"Measuring Minds at Work"
There's a column with that title in the current issue of Business 2.0 magazine, the Nov 2006 issue. I'm re-posting this because the article...
"New" Learning about Lean Blog
Learning about LeanJoe Ely is re-starting his blog, now with a focus on his very personal lean journey at work. Should make for...
Driving Organizational Change with Lean Principles: Insights from Jamie Flinchbaugh –...
Here is LeanBlog Podcast #10, again with Jamie Flinchbaugh, Founder of and Partner, co-author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to Lean.
In this Podcast, we respond to...
Lean-icopia of Toyota Articles
Here's a flock of articles about the new Toyota San Antonio plant that opened last week:Off to an aggressive start (Houston Chronicle)Plant President Hidehiko...
College Football Annual Review Problems
MICHAEL ROSENBERG: Let's play 2?The above article talks about how, for all the talk of "computers" selecting the top two Division 1 college football...
“No Satisfaction” at Toyota
No Satisfaction - Toyota - Georgetown - Car Factory
Thanks to a blog reader, Dan, for pointing this article out to me.
This past week...
Toyota San Antonio Starts Production
MySA.com: Metro | StateThe Toyota truck plant in Texas has started production. For all of the talk this week from the Big 3...
Updated Standard Work
For what it's worth, I've updated my "Standard Work" document for the blog. My last update was back in May. This is...
Lean on the Road
While traveling, even on vacation, you can see lean concepts abound:SFO airport, the escalator has a sign that says "no carts" (the big luggage...
Calling Chicago Area Lean Companies
Looking for help from Chicago-area lean folks....I was contacted by a Quality Manager at a pretty small, privately-held manufacturing company in the Chicago suburbs....
