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.
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...
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Learning About Lean
TIME.com: 10 Questions for Jeff Bezos -- Aug. 01, 2005:
"HERE'S A QUESTION YOU PROBABLY HEAR ALL THE TIME: READ ANY GOOD BOOKS LATELY?...
China currency move may help/hurt U.S. companies
Detroit News - 07/22/05This really is a complex issue, the China currency pegging. It's not just a China vs. U.S. issue, but within the...
Could Toyota Fix GM? (revisited)
Curious Cat Management ImprovementThe Deming-focused blog, Curious Cat, has comments on an earlier article I posted about Toyota and GM.Please check out my main...
Six Sigma Blog: Book Review: Lean Six Sigma for Service
Six Sigma BlogThe Six Sigma Blog has a link to a review of the Michael George book, Lean Six Sigma for Service.Please check out...
I Don’t Care That Your Regular Driver Was Out
Twice in the past week now, our department has had this similar problem happen. First, a global logistics company (rhymes with sledex) did not...
MI Governor works to lure Toyota plant
Detroit News - 07/20/05
Here is a column that discusses a trip taken by the MIchigan governor to Japan to meet with companies including Toyota....
An Interview with a Lean Hospital COO
RedNova News - Health - Q & A With Matthew FurlanThe subject of this article apparently received some top-notch lean training from Shingijitsu and...
