Mark Graban

Mark Graban
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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.

NUMMI Tour Tale #3: The Power of Why

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NUMMI Tour Tale #1: Why Fix the Escalator?NUMMI Tour Tale #2: The Power of Reynolds Wrap I think, by now, that Toyota is pretty famous...

Detroit Free Press Headline Writer Disagrees with Consumer Reports, Apparently

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Article Link --> "Asian vehicles rank low in survey"Or do they? You can't accuse the media for being biased toward Toyota in this case....

10,000 Visitors!

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The blog has now had 10,000 visitors since the launch in March. October is the 8th straight month of increasing visits. That's definitely...

NUMMI Tour Tale #2: The Power of Reynolds Wrap

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NUMMI Tour Tale #1: Why Fix the Escalator? The NUMMI tour guide told an interesting kaizen story as we went past the body weld area....

Toyota "Bucks Trend" by NOT Outsourcing

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Auto WeekThis article eventually reaches the conclusion I jumped to early on. Of course Toyota doesn't outsource as much as the other automakers. Toyota's...

NUMMI Tour Tale #1: Why Fix the Escalator?

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I really enjoyed my tour of the NUMMI plant last Friday. I'll post my summary thoughts and impressions from the tour, but I wanted...

UK Soaps ‘deter teenagers from factory work’

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Guardian Unlimited Money | Work | So this is a problem in the UK? The U.S. has enough factors deterring kids from engineering and...

NUMMI opens new training facility at plant

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Milpitas Post - LocalI saw the plant on Friday, it was pretty cool. Some excerpts from my visit notes are below, I should be...

Evolving Excellence Blog

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Evolving Excellence I've linked to them before, but there are a couple of excellent posts on the Superfactory Evolving Excellence Blog. Check them out! Thanks...

Bad Visual Controls at Baggage Claim

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This is at the Terminal B baggage claim at DFW airport. There are three lights. And two signs. You tell me,...

Touring NUMMI on Friday

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I'm getting a chance to tour the NUMMI plant in Fremont CA, the joint venture between Toyota and General Motors. I'm very excited...

A Different Take on Lean and Delphi

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Kaizen and Lean Manufacturing thoughts | Gemba Panta Rei Wow, on Womack and Delphi, this blogger didn't pull any punches. Jon Miller says, basically,...
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