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.
Challenging Outdated Practices: The Conflict Between Evidence and Habit in Lean...
tl;dr: In this post, Mark explores the tension between traditional habits and current scientific evidence in Lean management practices. He delves into how old...
Podcast #341 – Dr. Rob Hackett (@patientsafe3) on #TheatreCapChallenge &...
My guest for Episode #341 of the podcast is Dr. Rob Hackett, an anaesthesiologist in Sydney, Australia. Rob has become known around the world...
Who is Taking “Responsibilty” for the Mistake with the Australian 50...
Be honest, would you have seen the intentional typo in the post title if I hadn't put it on quotation marks? It's still not...
Dr. Gary Kaplan and Virginia Mason Medical Center’s “War on Waste”
A few of you sent me this article from Modern Healthcare (thanks!):
Virginia Mason Health CEO Dr. Gary Kaplan wages a war on waste
As you...
A Few “Thumbs Up” Reviews for “Measures of Success” — On...
I've dropped the Kindle price of my book Measures of Success: React Less, Lead Better, Improve More to $2.99 as a way to spur...
Family Guy Skewers Marie Kondo (and 5S and Lean too?)
I haven't read it, but Marie Kondo's book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing has been a...
I was a Guest on the new Healthcare Qualitycast
I've met Jarvis Gray a few times at the Healthcare Systems Process Improvement conference (I still call it the "Society for Health Systems Conference")....
Webinar Preview: A Structured Approach to Problem-Solving
Please join us on May 16, as KaiNexus and I host a webinar presented by a leader from one of our customers -- Chad...
Our Condo Maintenance Guy Gets the Point of 5S and Maximizing...
I got onto the elevator in the lobby of our condo building one day last week. Our building's maintenance guy was already on there...
The One Where I Go Off the Rails a Bit Over...
Usually, my only beef with "Lean Six Sigma" books is when they state the falsehood of "Lean is for speed, and you need Six...
I Can’t Believe You Can’t “Undo” This Thing in Microsoft Excel
Lean focuses on making it easy for people to do the right thing. We also work hard to "error proof" processes and our work...
A Hospital CEO Who Wants Other CEOs to “Give a Damn”...
Here's an interesting column from Becker's Hospital Review, written by Michael Dowling, President and CEO, Northwell Health.
I'm guessing he created the headline, since the...
