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.
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...
Toyota also says "Beat Toyota"
Kaizen and Lean Manufacturing thoughts | Gemba Panta ReiAnother good post from the Panta Rei lean blog on quality and perceptions of today's Toyota,...
Reopened coffee plant brightens up a devastated city
Reopened coffee plant brightens up a devastated city - Business - International Herald Tribune:
This isn't really a lean article, per se, but if...
Free Excerpts from "Lean Solutions"
Library - Lean Solutions Details
The LEI has kindly made pdf files available for download: Preface, Introduction, Chapter 1, and Chapter 2. Please...
"Lean Solutions" Now Shipping from Amazon
Also available directly (autographed copies) through the LEI (www.lean.org)I'm really looking forward to reading this. I'll get a review posted ASAP and encourage...
"Infinite Cost Reductions"?
asahi.com：Rises in efficiency reduce factory personnel - ENGLISH:From the article:"Toyota Motor Corp., one of the nation's most profitable and efficient manufacturers, is leading the...
Toyota Wins on Engine Production Metric, Is That What Matters?
Toyota plant retains fastest engine making titleI started my career at a GM V-8 engine plant in the mid 90's. "Hours per Engine" was...
Toyota Training for New Plant
MySA.com: BusinessNotice how Toyota is training their new Group Leaders (2nd level manufacturing managers). They are going to the Indiana plant and learning the...
GM Oshawa says "Beat Toyota"
The Globe and Mail: In the boardroom at the General Motors Oshawa plant is a baseball bat. Two words are carved on it: Beat...
"Motivational" Poster
InspirationThe very funny guys at Despair Inc. have some new posters out, check it out.Please check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org
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