All posts from Mark Graban’s LeanBlog.org, including podcasts, announcements, articles, and more.
If you've been a listener of my LeanBlog Podcast series, you might know that I normally record conversations and then publish them into the podcast feed. Today, I'm going to do my first live broadcast of a podcast discussion via the "Blab.im" streaming platform. My guest is going to be Sam MacPherson...
Yesterday, I did a webinar about the "ExperienceChange" workshops that I'm facilitating and would love to bring to your organization. In the webinar, the first part talks about the need for change management practices and higher levels of employee engagement...
Humility is an important part of the Lean management philosophy... it also means being willing to admit that there is a problem. Humility means "we don't really know so we must understand and then try many things to see if we have the right solution."
As I've worked with hospital and healthcare people over the past ten years, one personal benefit to me has been exposure to new ideas and new influences. I've been exposed to ideas from the social sciences, ideas that have been thought provoking and helpful...
A few months back, I announced a new collaborative eBook project called Practicing Lean... Chapter 4 in the book was contributed by Michael Lombard, a previous contributor to this blog. This past week, I also added a chapter contributed by Paul Akers, author of the books 2 Second Lean and Lean Health...
How many times do we hear people say things like “We don’t have time for Lean” or “We don’t have time for Kaizen“? It happens a lot, right? As I’ve said before (and this video) a “lack of time” is a problem to solve...
This page contains the different "Ask Us Anything!" sessions we’ve done and are continuing to do....
Watch the full documentary and find the related posts in this series. Recently, I shared the famed 1980 NBC documentary, “If Japan Can, Why Can’t We?” that essentially introduced W. Edwards Deming to a mainstream Western business audience. Today, I’m…
Thursday is the American holiday of Thanksgiving, so I'm going to take the rest of the week off (and many of you will be out of the office). The end of the year is a time to reflect. Paul Akers is the latest person to reflect on their early days of Lean practice by contributing a new chapter...
I have a SMALL favor to ask of you, as a Lean Blog reader… I’m currently working on my public registration workshop calendar for 2016, which includes these workshops: “Healthcare Kaizen” and “Experience Change” Please help me gauge demand for workshops in different locations by filling out this short form IF you would be interested in...
The W. Edwards Deming Institute and Dr. Deming's grandson Kevin Cahill worked with NBC to make the 1980 program available, giving the institute perpetual rights to it (see their blog post). To the institute's credit, they've made this freely available on YouTube.
For the Lean minded individual, Spike’s “Bar Rescue” is so much more than just a television show. It is basically a weekly, or binge-watched, case study on process improvement in bars across the country. “Bar Rescue” is another example of how any industry can benefit from continuous improvement.
