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.
"Nonessential" Workers
Hard-hit New Orleans will lay off 3,000 workers - The Boston Globe:
"Nagin had warned that many of New Orleans's nonessential jobs were at risk"
Without...
The Atlanta Braves’ Culture of Winning — Baseball and Lean
WSJ.com - The Culture of Winning
This is a fantastic interview with the General Manager of the Atlanta Braves, John Schuerholz (requires WSJ subscription). Even...
Lean/5S Team Gets Recognition
The Northeast Georgian: Business
Now this is a very local news source (available to the world, thanks to Google). This is a nice bit...
Local Lean Groups?
Got Boondoggle?: The Paradigm Network:On his blog, Mike W. writes about a local lean group that meets in the Indianapolis area. In Phoenix, where...
Iowa manufacturing can survive: Lean manufacturing just one tool to guarantee...
DesMoinesRegister.comMore discussion about the future of Iowa manufacturing, with a focus on lean. Iowa has been hurt with recent news about Maytag, among other...
New Lean Blog
Got Boondoggle?: Any Idiot Can Cut CostsThere is a new lean blog with a curious title, "Got Boondoggle?" The blogger is opinionated and shares...
Solectron organizes events to spread Lean
Six Sigma Blog: Solectron organizes events to spread Lean and Six Sigma implementation among suppliersFrom the Six Sigma Blog, an article about Solectron preaching...
Layoffs at a Lean Company
News - StatesmanJournal.comFrom Oregon: "Neilsen Manufacturing Inc. said Monday that it will slash its work force from 175 to 50 because of competition...
A "Kinder and Gentler" Lean Supply Base?
USATODAY.com - Ford will use fewer suppliers in attempt to cut costs:The Gemba Pantarei blog also has some good comments on this story about...
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
Curious Cat Management Improvement BlogOK, so it doesn't seem very lean for a blog to link to a blog that's linked to an article....
Coming Soon: Special Q&A with Womack and Jones
UPDATE: It's finally here, part 1 of the Q&AHello blog readers. I'm very excited. I have been promised a Q&A session with the...
Can America make it? We can’t lose our factories
DesMoinesRegister.com
Here is an editorial from the Des Moines Register newspaper, prompted by the planned closure of the Maytag plant in Newton Iowa, previously featured...
