All posts from Mark Graban’s LeanBlog.org, including podcasts, announcements, articles, and more.
Believe it or not, the Lean Blog will have its 5th birthday in January, 2010. I just stumbled across the fact that, since January 2005, I’ve now hit 1 million page views/loads! Thank you, Lean Blog readers! Your participation, through…
Channeling my inner Andy Rooney… I try to be a lean thinker and a lean guy. I’m all for reducing and eliminating waste. Where that lines up with the “Green” movement, that’s great. “Lean & Green” often line up in…
Starbucks boosts prices on some beverages – USATODAY.com There are no direct “lean” fingerprints on the news stories about Starbucks adjusting their prices, but let’s talk about it anyway. One of Toyota’s contributions to the management world is the idea…
You might remember a 2008 blog piece about early Lean efforts in New Zealand hospital (Dunedin hospital), where the primary aim was reducing patient waiting time. I also previously posted a link to a video about the general emergency department…
I recently invited questions for Michael Balle, the author of the Shingo Prize winning book The Gold Mine: A Novel of Lean Turnaround. He has a new book (published by LEI, my employer), recently published, called “The Lean Manager.” Here…
Keeping things a bit off topic and relaxed for a holiday weekend in the U.S., today is “College Colors” day. In hindsight, the picture at left probably isn’t what they meant… but that’s a picture from about 1993 of me…
I was watching the NBC web series (via iTunes podcasts) called “Ctrl” the other day (I’m a big fan of Tony Hale from the show Arrested Development). Anyway, I saw a scene that reminded me of “bad 5S” practices that…
Mark’s note: I’m happy to introduce a new guest blogger, Liz Guthridge. She is very active on Twitter and does a lot to educate people about Lean in area we could probably all (myself included!) use some help in –…
Below is a guest post from fellow author and Lean Healthcare practitioner, Naida Grunden. Her book, The Pittsburgh Way to Efficient Healthcare: Improving Patient Care Using Toyota Based Methods, is an outstanding collection of principles and case examples from the…
It’s been long rumored, but is now confirmed by Toyota that they are going to stop production at their ground breaking NUMMI plant in Fremont, CA. Toyota will move production to other plants, BusinessWeek reports. It is a sad day,…
This is an old story, from May, that I’ve meant to write about for a while. Peter Orszag, the Director of the Office of Management Budget wrote a piece in the WSJ about healthcare. He wrote: The good news is…
I’d like to welcome a new blogger to the Lean Healthcare space: Thomas L. Jackson of Rona Consulting and author of these books: Hoshin Kanri for the Lean Enterprise: Developing Competitive Capabilities and Managing Profit Implementing a Lean Management System…
