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.
Ford’s Padilla is Chasing Toyota
Bloomberg.com: U.S.:Comments from the Ford president:"Padilla says Toyota serves as an example of how to make winning models.``Toyota doesn't hit home runs every time...
New Book Focusing on Lean Failures
How to Prevent Lean Implementation Failures: 10 Reasons Why Failures OccurI read this book over the weekend, here is the review I wrote for...
China Catching Up in the Mall Race?
The Standard - The great mall of China - Opinion Section:Interesting view into the growth of malls in China. This excerpt from the article...
Is Your Mediocrity an Emergency?
Seth's Blog: The Mediocre Emergency
While Seth Godin is mainly a marketing guru, I like his provocative thoughts. From a lean manufacturing perspective, is...
Counterintuitive Findings on Traffic Jams and Flow
Click Here for Free LinkThe main point of the article is that, on freeways, attempts by individual drivers to go faster (changing lanes, etc.)...
American moves up at Toyota
Detroit Free PressThis is significant, in addition to an American, Gary Convis, running the Georgetown plant in Kentucky."It's not coincidental when Toyota is finally...
Lear seeks cuts, cheap labor
Detroit Free Press:"Southfield-based Lear Corp., which employs 9,400 workers in Michigan and about 100,000 more worldwide, fired its second warning flare this year on...
Toyota plant nearly done
Toyota plant nearly doneShort update on the truck plant in San Antonio.Please check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org
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Summary of Henry Ford’s Lean Vision
Henry Ford's Lean Vision
Here is a summary and information about a book that outlines how Henry Ford provided much of the inspiration and knowledge...
Rural China workers "vote by foot"
Xinhua - English
As reported before, labor shortages in China, believe it or not. Or, at the least there are upward pressures on wages...
Lessons from the days of TQM
alan's blog:
The author says:
"Anytime you see a new corporate program being rolled out with posters and coffee mugs and exhortations from the CEO...
Unions ask govt to help firms face up to China
Top News Article | Reuters.co.uk:
"Manufacturers need more government money for training, research and innovation rather than lower labour costs to face up to...
