All posts from Mark Graban’s LeanBlog.org, including podcasts, announcements, articles, and more.
I wanted to share a few upcoming Lean events that I’ll be attending. You can read more updates via the archive of my latest Lean Hospitals email newsletter. Hopefully, we can meet up, talk Lean, and even have a drink…
If you are in the midst of a Lean transformation and have some time, please take a look at this online survey from a doctoral student who contacted me. Her introductory comments: Please allow me to introduce myself. My name…
The following infographic was provided by LabSafety.com, a provider of lab equipment and supplies. Welcome, Fast Company readers. Please check out my main page to learn more about the Lean management methodology for business, healthcare, startups, and other industries. The…
Today’s post is a case study submitted by Abdul N. Mansour, Director Lean & Process Improvement at Scottsdale (AZ) Healthcare. The material here and the PDF downloads are shared with his permission. This project is a noteworthy story in that…
As someone who started his career in the auto industry, I’m excited to be interviewing a modern auto-industry legend on Friday for an upcoming podcast — Bob Lutz, the retired former Vice Chairman of General Motors. We’ll be talking about…
Last week, I posted a podcast with Mike George, founder of Strong America Now, an organization that is promoting Lean and Six Sigma methods to our political leaders and government. Much of the discussion, maybe unfortunately, was focused on Mr.…
As a kid, I always enjoyed writing and, at one point, dreamed of being a baseball beat writer, like the father of one my best friends from elementary school who got to travel and cover the Detroit Tigers. I was…
After a week of serious topics and sometimes pointed discussion, let’s end with a funny sign… well wait, there’s a serious story behind this sign too. This is a sign from a New Zealand hospital, sent via email by a…
Listen: My guest for Podcast #125 is Mike George, the founder of Strong America Now, a “nonprofit organization dedicated to mobilizing and educating citizens to support only those Presidential candidates who commit to eliminating the deficit with no new taxes.”…
As I’ve worked with different hospitals and different leaders, I’ve sometimes wondered if there’s been a study on the differences in results between hospitals that have a physician CEO vs. those that have a non-physician CEO. Which hospitals have better…
One of the variations of my acronym L.A.M.E. is “Lean As Misguidedly Explained,” and I recently ran across two fresh instances of this (and, for once, neither is from the Wall Street Journal!). One example is a news writer who…
This blog post contains a real job posting, found online. Let’s make this a reader participation challenge. I see maybe three things “wrong” or at least questionable about this posting. What say you? I’ll let the readers chime in before…
