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I know many of you aren’t into the whole Twitter thing, but I’m using my account (@MarkGraban) to share some photos and small batches of ideas that I come across during my trip to Japan. I’ll also share them here…
While I’m in Japan this week (read about the trip), I’m going to keep my blogging light – my aim is to share one picture or thought each day. The tour starts on Monday with a visit to a Toyota…
Although I blog most often about Lean healthcare, I know a good number of my blog readers are from the “Lean Startup” world who like reading about general Lean leadership concepts. I hope to meet many of you at Eric…
Updated 11/8 to include a link to the recording and changing the post to past tense. Gregory Jacobson, MD, co-founder and CEO of KaiNexus (disclosure: I’m on the management team) gave a free webinar next Tuesday, November 6 at 3…
This week, I was able to drop by the annual Lab Quality Confab event since it was being held in here in San Antonio. There were some things I heard during a few presentations about Lean or change management, such…
The dates have been announced for the 4th annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit. It will be held June 5-6, 2013. Co-hosted by the Lean Enterprise Institute and the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, this has always been a great event.…
As I started writing about yesterday in Part 1, I recently viewed a lost video of Steve Jobs being interviewed in 1995. See this CBS News story about the video or you can rent the video via (what else) Apple…
Here is the seventh in our series of short, simple Kaizen education videos from KaiNexus, a software startup where I am on the management team. We are embedding these videos into our web-based (and iOS) software, to provide short tips and hints…
Recently, I stumbled across something that’s been out for about a year, a lost video of Steve Jobs being interviewed in 1995. See this CBS News story about the video or you can rent the video via (what else) Apple…
Last week, my wife was watching ABC’s show “Grey’s Anatomy,” as she always does. Again, as she often does, she’ll pause it for me when there’s a scene related to patient safety, so I can watch. In this scene, below,…
Today’s post is by Brian Collyer, blogger at Today’s Lean Manufacturing. Brian interviewed me recently for his podcast. Gemba: the Japanese term meaning “the real place” Gemba is the place in any organization where humans create value. In the…
A few years ago, there was a lot of buzz about how a board should evaluate a potential job candidate by seeing how they treat waiters and other “lowly” employees in a restaurant (see “CEOs say how you treat a…
