Mark Graban
Mark Graban is an internationally-recognized consultant, author, and professional speaker, and podcaster with experience in healthcare, manufacturing, and startups.
Mark's new book is The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation.
He is also the author of Measures of Success: React Less, Lead Better, Improve More, the Shingo Award-winning books Lean Hospitals and Healthcare Kaizen, and the anthology Practicing Lean.
Mark is also a Senior Advisor to the technology company KaiNexus.
Help Wanted: China Finds Itself With a Labor Shortage
The New York Times (registration required)
Chinese factories no longer have to hire security guards to keep the job applicants away? This article says...
Streamlined Plane Making
WSJ.com (registration required) Not really "new" news, but an article that discusses Boeing and Airbus "copying" Toyota. Interesting quote:"We always thought airplanes...
New Book Reveals Harsh Working Conditions in Chinese Factories
Press ReleaseMore reasons to get our factories lean in the U.S. Sure, labor is cheap in China, but do we really want to...
Steelcase to close some plants, cut 600 employees
Detroit Free Press
The article doesn't say directly that Steelcase is cutting jobs "because of" lean manufacturing, but it seems hard not to draw that...
New Lean Book: Andy & Me: Crisis And Transformation On The...
Andy & Me: Crisis And Transformation On The Lean JourneyThis is a new "business novel", ala The Goal. I enjoyed the book and...
"Lean Consumption" — Using technology to make life easier for consumers
Boston.com / Business / TechnologyDr. James Womack and Dr. Daniel Jones have a new book coming out this fall. A preview of that...
Fighting rivals with efficiency
JS Online Nice case studies of older midwestern companies fighting Chinese competition with lean manufacturing, in some cases bringing work back from overseas....
‘India may have to face threat from Russian firms’
The Hindu Business LineInteresting to read that China is supposed spending time and effort on lean training. I assumed that China factories were...
“Standard Work” for LeanBlog.org
OK, so this isn't strictly a standard work document, but this is an overview of the Lean Blog. I did update it on 7/19/05,...
The father of Kaizen, Masaaki Imai, speaks!
Masaaki Imai interview!
Masaaki Imai comments on the need to convert from batch to JIT and China 'productivity', among other topics.
One highlight:
"Kaizen is the means...
Boeing Reduces 737 Airplane’s Final-Assembly Time by 50 Percent
Press Release
Looks like great work by the Boeing 737 team!
"We're not going to stop at a 50 percent reduction, but improving our production system...
Toyota’s Fujio Cho: Act. Improve. Repeat.
Business 2.0 - Magazine Article Improve.
This was in a magazine that hit my mailbox yesterday, an interview with Toyota's CEO. The company was named...
