All posts from Mark Graban’s LeanBlog.org, including podcasts, announcements, articles, and more.
NE Fla. health care providers cut waste – Jacksonville Business Journal: Here’s a nice upbeat article about some lean healthcare progress in Jacksonville, including our good friend, Dr. Sami Bahri, the “World’s First Lean Dentist.” I like the intro of…
We had some local Boston news about hospitals reducing infection rates, including dangerous blood stream infections that result from central lines. Several academic medical centers in Boston said the number of ICU patients contracting bloodstream infections had dropped by at…
TL;DR: Disruptive and disrespectful behavior in hospitals creates fear that undermines patient safety, quality, and continuous improvement. Lean healthcare depends on psychological safety and respectful leadership–without it, even the best tools and technologies fail. amednews: Disruptive behavior by doctors, nurses…
I love NBC’s “The Office” and this clip of Dunder Mifflin’s Dwight Schrute asking a question at the company shareholder’s meeting is pretty funny: Dwight is talking about efficiency of the huge line of angry shareholders. He completely loses the…
TL;DR: Decades of outsourcing and dismissing manufacturing as “old economy” thinking have hollowed out cities like Detroit and weakened the broader U.S. economy. Manufacturing still matters — not as nostalgia or protectionism, but as a foundation for sustainable growth. Lean…
CNN Programs – Anchors/Reporters – Sanjay Gupta I had a very full, interesting week – giving a well-received talk about Lean Healthcare at the Ontario Hospital Association convention, spending a day with a hospital east of Toronto, and hearing some…
Expert’s Corner: Lean Enterprise Institute’s Mark Graban : Industry Market Trends Sorry, no real post today (just returned from three busy days with Lean Healthcare in Toronto, will blog soon about meeting Newt Gingrich, a real proponent of Lean and…
Freeport woman sues hospital after biopsy mix-up This is really discouraging to see yet another serious specimen labeling mishap in a pathology department that’s led to the good news / bad news situation that we’ve read about before: Good News:…
Eve Yen, founder and CEO of Diamond Wipes, is our guest for episode #79 of the podcast. In this podcast, Eve discusses her company and how manufacturing in the United States provides a strong competitive advantage. While not explicitly “Lean,”…
I am at the Ontario Hospital Association ‘HealthAchieve’ meeting (giving a talk on Lean Healthcare later on). I saw Dr. Sanjay Gupta present this morning and will post a few notes about his talk – not about “Lean” but there…
I saw this quote on Twitter from the pastor Rick Warren (happens to fit in the 140 characters): “Love isn’t letting people do whatever they want. That’s often cowardice or apathy. Love cares enough to tell the truth.” I’m not…
Here is a YouTube video done by the Lean Enterprise Institute with one of my favorite people in the Lean world, Sami Bahri, D.D.S., the “World’s First Lean Dentist” from Jacksonville, FL. The questions in the video include: Why did…
