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.
Mastering Mistake-Proofing: Insights from Toyota’s Poka Yoke Approach
This post is built around excerpts from the book The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation. Read more about Toyota,...
Lean Management Meets Tech: Theodo Group’s Success Story with Catherine Chabiron...
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My guests for Episode #495 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast are Catherine Chabiron and Fabrice...
2024: A Leap Year of Transformation – Elevate Your Continuous Improvement...
Happy New Year!
As advocates of Kaizen, the philosophy and practice of continuous improvement, we recognize the value of each new year. We value...
Honoring and Remembering David Mann, Author of ‘Creating a Lean Culture’
With a heavy heart, I'd like to honor and remember David Mann, a noted author in the #Lean Management community, who passed away on the 26th.
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Is Andre Drummond Sustaining His Free Throw Improvements? [Updated 2023]
Last year, I looked at the free throw statistics of Andre Drummond of the Detroit Pistons. News headlines talked about how much he had improved his free throws, so I looked at one of his performance metrics (free throw percentage) to see if the increase was "signal" or "noise."
Why write about basketball? Well, there are lessons that we can learn and apply to our own workplace metrics, as I write about in my book Measures of Success: React Less, Lead Better, Improve More.
Gemba Claus is Comin’ to Town! [Song]
Here's a musical holiday treat for my regular Lean Blog readers and podcast listeners, a song parody, originally released in 2009, remastered a bit...
Happy Holidays from Mark Graban and LeanBlog.org
I'll be off on vacation through the New Year holiday. See you in January with more blog posts and podcasts! Happy Holidays!
Reflect and Evolve: Embracing Positive Surprises and Learning from the Unexpected...
As the year draws to a close, it's a pivotal time for reflection, both on a personal level and within our teams and organizations.Traditionally,...
What Were the 10 Most Read LeanBlog.org Posts of the Second...
Thanks, everybody, for reading my blog here in 2023. And for listening to podcasts... oh so many podcasts.
This blog post is the "year...
Beyond Mistakes: Uncovering Toyota’s Approach to Success Through Learning
This post is built around excerpts from the book The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation. Read more about Toyota,...
My Audio Mistake in My Live Video to Give Away a...
The book giveaway contest that I'm running ends Friday at about 3 pm ET.
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Journal Article Suggests Efficacy of Lean in U.S. Public Hospitals; Will...
tl;dr summary: A journal article evidences Lean's effectiveness in healthcare, challenging skeptics. It finds that Lean adoption in U.S. public hospitals is linked to...
