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.
Will You Wait until Dec. 06 to Make Your Numbers?
I wonder how many big companies are having their annual sales meeting or sales planning sessions for the year? How many companies that...
Lean Healthcare: Park Nicollet Hospital
kare11.com :: KARE 11 TV - Auto concept drives Park Nicollet strategyHere's a nice article about a hospital that is getting recognition within the...
Sunday’s Demand Spike for Pizza
WSJ.com - Pizza-Delivery Teams Are Training Hard For Sunday's Game ($$$)I started reading this with great interest, expecting to read about the operations side...
Womack Wants To Clear The Record On JIT
IndustryWeek ColumnHere is the original article in question, from the Wall St Journal. The article did a little fear mongering, as the WSJ...
Lean Healthcare: Another ThedaCare Article
Appleton Post-Crescent - Finding a better wayAnother article on a hospital organization that has been working on lean transformation. An earlier article is...
Lean Government: Grand Rapids
State of the City address by Grand Rapids Mayor George Heartwell:It's nice to see a city using lean methods and even more noteworthy that...
The Daily Show Skewers Ford
Click on the link above for the Daily Show website and video from the show. You have to get past the intro about...
W. = "Won’t bail out" GM and Ford
WSJ.com - Bush Plays Down Bailout Prospects For GM and Ford:
Also: GM posted more than an $8 Billion Loss for FY 2005, announced today.
Excerpts:
"President...
Toyota Drives Into NASCAR
Japanese Automaker Drives Into NASCAR - Yahoo! NewsWill they apply kaizen to NASCAR? :-)It was announced earlier this week that a NASCAR edition of...
A collection of "fix GM" columns
Jerry Flint, It Takes Many Arrows to Kill an Elephant - Forbes.comMy dad sent me this a while back and laziness kept it off...
Auto Companies Must Change From Within
IndustryWeek : Continuous ImprovementHere is an outstanding column from Industry Week and editor Tonya Vinas. It came to my email box courtesy of...
Lean and Green in Texas
Thomas L. Friedman (free access via Denver Post): Although the focus of this column is on the environmental advantages of the new Texas Instruments...
