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.
Iowa and Lean, Once Again
Making Iowa more business friendly a goal for lawmakersIowa sure pops up quite a bit in the lean news, between Maytag and Pella, and...
Bodek Q&A Picked Up By Indian Magazine
Industry 2.0 : Lean MantrasThis is more "Blog news" than "lean news", but my Q&A with Norm Bodek has been reprinted (with my permission)...
Gemba Panta Rei: Pandemic Preparation: Just in Time or Just in...
Kaizen and Lean Manufacturing thoughts | Gemba Panta ReiI was going to blog about this, but Jon Miller from the excellent Gemba Panta Rei...
Airlines: Cost and Value
WSJ.com - As Airlines Pull Out of Dive, United Charts Its Own Course ($$ Subscription)Most of what we hear about airlines is "low cost"...
More on Chrysler and Teams
Rockford Register Star - Assemblers shift to team concept key to successA follow up to an article posted by Luke last week regarding Chrysler...
Waste in Marketing
So here was some breakfast discussion from my house this morning.... why do companies waste money marketing to existing customers who already have these...
Expert (Womack) suggests lean production
Jacksonville's Financial News and Daily RecordGood article and comments from Jim Womack. Some had criticized him before for making it sound like manufacturing...
GM’s Lutz: ‘I gave at the office.’
GM's Lutz: Don't cut exec pay-He shoots down Kerkorian's idea to reduce salaries, says 'I gave at the office.'A follow up to yesterday's article...
GM told: Cut every salary
Detroit Free Press ArticleHow about "Reduce All Waste" as a rallying cry?Please check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org
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Lean at NUMMI
Society of Manufacturing EngineersHere's a good overview of the Toyota/GM "Joint Venture" plant, NUMMI. I put "JV" in quotes because, sure there is...
Hey GM! Prices Are Set by the Market
Headline:General Motors Cuts Prices on 80 Percent of Its U.S. ModelsRemember the "new" Toyota Production System thinking:Profit = Market-Set Price (minus) Your CostsThe "old"...
Right Tool, Right Problem, Right Thinking
Leading Lean (Jamie Flinchbaugh)
Here is the first installment of a new column that appears in Assembly Magazine, written by Jamie Flinchbaugh. Jamie writes about...
