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.
The Laptop Supply Chain
Slashdot | The Laptop Supply ChainSlashdot.org commentary (with a link to a free WSJ article). The WSJ article discusses the somewhat hidden laptop...
Small Companies LIkely to Provide Good Customer Service?
I saw the results of a Harris Interactive online poll, which said only 3.6% of respondents thought "large companies" are "most likely to have...
Celestica Sees Lean Benefits While Announcing Major Offshoring
The Celestica CEO says:"... he noted benefits from restructuring and lean manufacturing. Lean manufacturing is a series of initiatives that collectively boost efficiency and...
Toyota Way Principle #1: Need Not Apply?
My company is attempting to define and create a "Company Production System," patterned after TPS. Some of our executives visited TMMK (Toyota Georgetown) and...
Toyota boss fears backlash if GM, Ford fall
ABC NewsIt seems like Chairman Okuda and President Cho keep going back and forth on this in the media. Okuda has said twice now...
Waste watchers learning the lean routine in clinical laboratories
College of American Pathologists:
It's much more fun to think about what could be (lean healthcare) than what was (GM's dominance in the...
At Least Toyota & Hyundai Are Creating Jobs
GM Plans to Cut 25,000 U.S. Jobs by 2008 - Yahoo! News
I'm starting to get sick of beating up on GM. I hate...
Supplier Relationships in a Lean Enterprise
Standardized Work ChartsHere is the latest posting from Darren Dolcemascolo, who also publishes a lean email newsletter (and does lean consulting, as well)."First of...
More Siren Songs — Pelion Systems
Pelion Systems Advances Demand-Based Manufacturing With Enhanced Real-Time Resource Planning EngineThis is becoming quite the recurring theme (see here, here, and here). Lean lean...
Another Siren Song? More Funding for Factory Logic
$8M funding boost - 2005-06-06
Another "siren song" of software? For those not following this line of posts, also see this article on i2 and...
Overproduction of Milk Supported by Taxpayers
Bovine Growth Hormone:One of the seven /eight forms of waste (per Toyota) is Overproduction. It's frustrating to me that the U.S. government supports overproduction...
Economist says China not eating Mexico’s lunch
Brownsville HeraldIt's interesting to see and think about the chase for low-cost labor... conventional wisdom is that manufacturers have chased cheap labor to Mexico,...
