All posts from Mark Graban’s LeanBlog.org, including podcasts, announcements, articles, and more.
Thanks to George Friesen for pointing me toward his video about “Idea Boards” as a Kaizen methodology. Like George, I was inspired to start using this approach thanks to David Mann‘s outstanding book Creating a Lean Culture: Tools to Sustain…
Mark’s note: Today’s guest post is by Michael Grogan, a native of Ireland who left his Lean job in the U.S. to follow his calling to help bring Lean healthcare to Tanzania. Read his blog post about his first 79…
Listen: Joining me for episode #180 of the Lean Blog Podcast is Dan Florizone, who served from 2008 until last month as Deputy Minister of Health in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Dan has just recently transitioned into his new…
Again, I’m very happy to host the Carnival for John Hunter and his Curious Cat management improvement blog. My job here is to share some noteworthy and thought provoking posts from the past few weeks from the blogs I try…
While I love interviewing others for my Podcast series, sometimes the tables and the microphones get turned and I get interviewed. Here are a few recent interviews where I was yapping about Lean healthcare, Kaizen, and KaiNexus. Money for Lunch…
Joe Swartz and I are building upon our well-received (and Shingo Research Award winning) book Healthcare Kaizen with a new special edition aimed at busy senior leaders. The book is available for pre-order now at Amazon.com: The Executive Guide to…
There’s a great piece, currently available for free on the HBR website, about continuous improvement: The Culture to Cultivate The author, George Halvorson, is the recently retired CEO of Kaiser Permanente and it’s really helpful that he is writing about…
An old friend of mine (whose name and company remains confidential) recently saw me reference an old blog post on Facebook. I had posted a link to this old post about Kyocera’s “Lean Office” initiative that focused on neatness and,…
My guests for Podcast #179 are my friends Judy Worth and Tom Shuker, two of the co-authors of the book Perfecting Patient Journeys, which was published earlier this year by the Lean Enterprise Institute. About the book: “Perfecting Patient Journeys” is…
I’m happy to announce that I’m partnering with TechSolve, a non-profit organization in Ohio, to jointly deliver three day-long workshops on Kaizen and Lean for healthcare. There will be sessions in Findlay, Columbus, and Akron on August 6th, 7th, and…
A belated Happy Canada Day to my friends up north… Thursday is Independence Day here in the United States. I really prefer calling it that over “the 4th of July,” which strips the day of its meaning. I’ll be away…
I was happy to see that one of my local Indian restaurants not only has very good Yelp reviews… they also have a top score (a perfect score!) from the health inspector. This is proudly displayed (as it should be)…
