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.
Norm Bodek on the Power of Kaizen: Unlocking Employee Creativity and...
Here is my first LeanBlog Podcast, featuring author and consultant Norman Bodek, President of PCS Press.
I have to give credit for the idea to...
An Example of SME and Pull?
Society of Manufacturing Engineers -JoinI joined SME and received my new member package with the typical membership card etc. (typical of other organizations I...
An MBO Case Study in China
WSJ.com - In China, 3,500 Test the Waters Of the Pearl RiverI've written before about how polluted China's rivers are, the cost of unbridled...
Lean Blog Podcast and other Coming Attractions
If you're reading from the top of the page currently, I guess this is like movie previews before the featured presentation.A few upcoming "events"...
Forced Rankings and Respect for Humanity
Fortune: The new rules - Jul. 11, 2006Part of Fortune's cover story about how Jack Welch's "old rules" don't apply any more, this includes...
GM Gaming the Cash Metric
WSJ.com - Can Mr. Fix-It Find Time for GM?:I knew companies played games with inventory numbers. Although there's no rational business reason to...
It’s a Value Problem, not a Cost Problem
WSJ.com - Can Mr. Fix-It Find Time for GM?Part of the discussion about a GM-Nisssan/Renault alliance has been the old "purchasing efficiencies" driven by...
Toast Kaizen DVD
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I received a copy of this DVD through work and...
Interesting Change Model
I found this in a non-lean book, but I can see how this applies to our lean world, this change model:Many of the factories...
Tom Peters on Getting Bigger & Slower
tompeters! management consulting leadership training development project management:
It's no surprise that Tom Peters would have this take. He always asks, "what happens when you...
How to Poka Yoke This?
I received an email from an MBA student in Turkey (this truly is a global lean community). The emailer asked me a question...
Lean Army Video
Lean Army Video (via YouTube.com)Here is a video highlighting the benefits of apply lean to the Army Materiel Command. Improving turnaround time on...
