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.
Updated: NUMMI Plant Workers, Cos. Talk as Contract Deadline Passes
Bloomberg.com: U.S.: Updated 8/11: Looks like the plant has a tentative agreement.Last post before vacation... still sounds like there could be a labor stoppage...
Toyota Focusing on the Long Term, Short Term Profit Falls
Toyota's 1st-quarter profit declines 7%The WSJ article commented:"The news underscores the company's willingness to sacrifice short-term profit to maintain its torrid pace of growth....
Lean Manufacturing Doesn’t Overlook or Compromise Safety
In the article "Occupational Hazards - Keep It Lean and Safe," the author says, in part:
"In the worst-case scenario, an overzealous company may implement...
Flexibility vs. Simplicity
WSJ.com - Amid Price War, Chrysler To Revamp Manufacturing (subscription required):
Today's WSJ has an article about Chrysler's attempts to produce three different models,...
Chicago Auto Supplier Lean Example In The News
www.dailysouthtown.com/:
Here is a nice example of a Chicago-area company using lean to respond to the market, which is forcing prices downward. To...
Toyota-GM factory faces possible strike
Toyota-GM factory faces possible strike:It will be interesting to see if Toyota would ever walk away from NUMMI, even as (or because) they are...
A Lean "Plant Rat" Becomes CEO
TOM WALSH: DCX shifts into futureLaSorda's challenge: Keep up momentumChrysler's Tom LaSorda, a "plant rat" turns CEOTom LaSorda, a former GM guy who moved...
Most businesses are "Soviet" in character?
WSJ.com - Workers of Europe Innovate (subscription required)
Great article in the WSJ today about a company in France that sounds like it's doing many...
Curious Cat Blog: New Toyota CEO’s Views
Curious Cat Management Improvement - including economics, investment and more: New Toyota CEO's Views
The Curious Cat blog found a Business Week article with quotes...
Kaizen Swimming?
Runner's Web and Triathlete's Web, a Running, Track and Field and Triathlon Resource Portal
I don't know how much this swimmer has studied lean, but...
KAIZEN License Plate
Driving to work today, I saw a new Nissan Z with the Arizona license plate "KAIZEN". I couldn't see who was driving (the way...
Toyota, Moving Northward
New York TimesWithout getting into politics (is Toyota growing in Canada because of their education and health care systems, as proposed by Krugman), when...
