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We have two free webinars coming up in the next week, hosted by KaiNexus. I hope you can join us. Oh, as a reminder, I'm doing a Measures of Success webinar this Friday, the 22nd. The webinars are: The Lowdown on A3 Software How to…
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Hi -- I'm still not blogging much these days, as I try to focus on finishing my book Measures of Success. You can still buy the current "in-progress" book, which is about 85% complete. I'm still editing and tweaking the book, especially the…
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Here's the latest installment of "Key Tweets," a (usually) weekly post that presents some of my tweets (or retweets) from the week, including pictures and other interesting stuff. I sometimes also re-share items that I've posted on…
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For a long time, I've wanted to attend a "Statistical Process Control" (SPC) class taught by Donald J. Wheeler, Ph.D.  I'm finally doing this in September and I'd like to invite you to join me.
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Joining me again for Episode #308 is Mike Grogan, a previous guest in episodes #182 (from Tanzania) and #224. Mike now lives in the Philippines, where he's helping and coaching many people and has written a new book, The MESSI Way.
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I was very sad to see the news about Anthony Bourdain's death, reportedly by suicide. I regularly watched Bourdain's TV shows, "No Reservations" and "Parts Unknown." I don't normally get too excited about celebrity, but I do remember…
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Today, I'm giving a talk at the International Society for Blood Transfusion (ISBT) conference in Toronto. I was invited by the company Quotient to participate in a panel presentation and discussion with some laboratory professionals from…
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I'll be blogging a bit less often over the next few weeks, as I work on my book Measures of Success. But, I can't help tweeting sometimes... Here's the latest installment of “Key Tweets,” a (usually) weekly post that presents some of my…
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Hello readers. I wanted to let you know that I plan on taking a bit of a hiatus from blogging the next few weeks. It's a priority to get my book Measures of Success done (or as "done" as an eBook ever gets) before the Lean Healthcare…
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Back in 2014, I wrote an article for The Lean Post: "Standardization is a Countermeasure, Never the Goal" I'm a big fan of Taiichi Ohno's advice to "start from need." I cringe when I hear people say that we should standardize the way…
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Originally posted a few years ago, I'm reposting this for the holiday here in the U.S.
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Here's the latest installment of “Key Tweets,” a (usually) weekly post that presents some of my tweets (or retweets) from the week, including pictures and other interesting stuff. You can follow me @MarkGraban and join the fun and the…
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I'm still working on my book Measures of Success, as I've mentioned here a few times.  The partial "in-progress" book is available through LeanPub.com. Or, when it's done, it will also be available through the Amazon Kindle bookstore and…
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For a long time, I've been an advocate for the parallels between Lean and an approach called "Just Culture." See previous blog posts on this topic. Here's a good overview of Just Culture, which says, in part: "A just culture recognizes…
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I'll be teaching my "Better Metrics" workshop (aka "Measures of Success," ala my book) twice in June: Cambridge Investments - Open for Public Registration (Fairfield, Iowa) -- June 5 Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit (Chicago) --…
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Here's the latest installment of “Key Tweets,” a (usually) weekly post that presents some of my tweets (or retweets) from the week, including pictures and other interesting stuff. You can follow me @MarkGraban and join the fun and the…
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