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Why Damon Baker Thinks Lean Has a Marketing Problem; the Need to Speak the CEO’s Language

Mark Graban Aug 16, 2022 0

Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #454 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Damon Baker. He is the founder and CEO of the firm Lean Focus. He's also a Private Equity Partner at…
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Maybe “Just in Time” (JIT) Should Be Called “Short Lead Time” (SLT) Supply…

Mark Graban Aug 16, 2022 9

This is the starting point for a blog post that I should expand on... after posting these initial thought fragments on LinkedIn. JIT might have been given the wrong name... please hear me out. There has been so much confusion over…
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Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: August 12th, 2022

Ryan McCormack Aug 12, 2022 0

Thanks as always to Ryan McCormick for this... there's always so much good reading, listening, and viewing shared here by him! Insights about improvement, innovation, and leadership... Operational Excellence, Improvement, and…
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Sarah Boisvert on New Collar Careers and the Need for 21st Century Apprenticeships

Mark Graban Aug 9, 2022 0

Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #453 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Sarah Boisvert. She is the founder of New Collar Network and Fab Lab Hub. Her career spans…
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Luke Szymer on Agile, Testing Hypotheses, and Process Behavior Charts

Mark Graban Aug 2, 2022 0

Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #452 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Luke Szyrmer. He's the founder of "Launch Tomorrow." He helps new technology products get to market…
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Lean Whiskey #34: Crazy Ideas, From Shipping Flowers to Crab Whiskey

Mark Graban Jul 29, 2022 0

Listen: Here is the episode if you want to stream the audio: In Episode 34, Mark Graban and Jamie Flinchbaugh begin by belatedly celebrating the 3rd birthday of Lean Whiskey. No, this wasn't a pandemic-launched podcast,…
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Alan Robinson on Continuous Improvement for All and Practical Innovation in Government

Mark Graban Jul 26, 2022 0

Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #451 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Dr. Alan G. Robinson. He specializes in managing ideas, building high-performance…
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Torbjorn Netland, PhD on Company Production Systems, Lean & Technology, and More

Mark Graban Jul 12, 2022 0

Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #450 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Professor Torbjorn Netland, Ph.D. Tor is the chair of production and operations management in…
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Lean Healthcare Means Having the Right Staffing Levels for Safety, Quality, and the Best Care

Mark Graban Jul 6, 2022 0

I was prompted today to think about an excerpt from my book Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Engagement: "In many hospital settings, staffing levels are set by benchmarking data, rules of thumb, habit,…
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When Companies Don’t Learn From “The Beer Game,” Inventory Stock-Outs Turn to…

Mark Graban Jul 5, 2022 0

You're a retailing or manufacturing executive who hasn't heard of MIT's "Beer Game" management simulator? Then you're probably swimming in a lot of excess inventory. If you're an executive who also incorrectly thinks that "just in…
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Lisa Yerian, MD on the Cleveland Clinic’s Improvement Journey and How Lean Got Them Through…

Mark Graban Jun 28, 2022 0

Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #449 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Lisa Yerian, MD. She joined Cleveland Clinic in anatomic pathology in 2004, and has held several…
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Isn’t It Ironic? Mistakes That Interrupted My Webinar About Mistakes

Mark Graban Jun 28, 2022 1

A contractor unplugged my WiFi router. Or was there more to it than that? Instead of blaming somebody else, what mistakes did I make that led to the Q&A section of my webinar being knocked offline? Yesterday, I presented a…
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Reader Question: Would You Call This a “Lean Burial”?

Mark Graban Jun 27, 2022 0

I try not to use the word "Lean" as an adjective that means "better." We see this a lot online, the so-called "Lean boarding pass" or other such things. If "Lean" becomes a synonym for "good" then it doesn't really mean much. For me,…
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Free Webinar Recording About Learning From Mistakes (as Individuals & Organizations)

Mark Graban Jun 23, 2022 0

Updated to include a 5-minute audio preview and the recording. I presented free webinar on June 27th, as part of the KaiNexus Continuous Improvement Webinars series. You can access it via this page (registration required, but you'll be…
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Rich Sheridan, CEO of Menlo Innovations, on Eliminating Fear and Increasing Joy in Work

Mark Graban Jun 21, 2022 0

Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #448 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Rich Sheridan, co-founder, CEO and "Chief Storyteller" of Menlo Innovations, a software and IT…
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Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: June 10th, 2022

Ryan McCormack Jun 10, 2022 0

Thanks as always to Ryan McCormick for this... there's always so much good reading, listening, and viewing shared here by him! News, blogs, articles, resources, and links about creating value, continuous improvement, innovation, and…
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The Book “Rivethead” and GM’s Demeaning “Quality Cat” Mascot

Mark Graban Jun 8, 2022 0

I've updated and am republishing an old 2005 blog post that I wrote about a former GM assembly worker, Ben Hamper, who has some very funny stories in his book, Rivethead: Tales From the Assembly Line. One story, in particular, is from…
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Just the Lean Talk — Mark Graban & Jamie Flinchbaugh Discuss Lean Supply Chains

Mark Graban Jun 7, 2022 0

Listen: Here is the episode if you want to stream the audio: As I did two weeks ago, when Jamie Flinchbaugh and I talked about "Lean 101" training (and should you skip it), I'm sharing another episode (as a "bonus" episode in…
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