Celebrating 15 Years of #Lean Podcasting Today — A Birthday-versary Mark Graban Jul 16, 2021 2 Blog TODAY marks the 15th birthday (or is it an anniversary?) of my Lean Blog Interviews podcast (known in the!-->!-->!-->…
Interviewed by Doctors on the “Connecting the Dots” Podcast Mark Graban Mar 22, 2021 0 Blog I'd like to thank my friend Skip Steward for inviting me to be a guest on his podcast called "Connecting the!-->…
Mourning and Remembering My Time With Kaizen Mentor, Norman Bodek Mark Graban Dec 10, 2020 5 Blog I was incredibly saddened today to hear that Norman Bodek passed away yesterday in Japan, where he had recently!-->…
Maybe “Just Do Its” Should be Called “Just PDSA Its”? Mark Graban Oct 1, 2019 6 Audio In the practice of Lean and continuous improvement, people often describe small improvements as "Just Do Its."!-->…
Come See a Culture of Continuous Improvement at Franciscan Health This October! Mark Graban Jun 24, 2019 0 Audio Registration is open for "Kaizen Live!" -- the 2019 edition. Joe Swartz and I are excited to announce that!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
Another Example of Small Steps as a Starting Point for Success Mark Graban Apr 11, 2019 0 Blog You might remember one of my favorite podcasts was with Dr. Bob Maurer of UCLA, author of two great books on the!-->…
A Concern I Heard about Kaizen at a Veterinary Leadership Conference… It… Mark Graban Jan 28, 2019 2 Blog I was honored to get to present with my friend Chip Ponsford, DVM at the Veterinary Leadership Conference that was!-->…
Year in Review: My Podcasts About Lean and More Mark Graban Dec 27, 2018 0 Blog It was a busy year for me in the podcast realm. I produced 33 "Lean Blog Podcast" episodes of interviews about the!-->…
GE Gets a Lean CEO — From the Outside Mark Graban Oct 7, 2018 0 Blog Jet lag, even well managed and planned for, meant I was awake early on a Sunday morning. Over breakfast, I read…
More on Teaching TQM, TPS, Lean, and Kaizen to Doctors in Japan Mark Graban Sep 25, 2018 6 Blog In the third and final part of this series, I share more about how Toyota teaches about TPS and TQM... and how they…
Kaizen in the Garrison Brothers Bourbon Bottle Dipping Process Mark Graban Sep 24, 2018 3 Blog I'm excited that our sold-out "Symposium on Learning Organizations" group will be visiting Toyota's San Antonio…
The Catch-22 of #Lean & Kaizen: You Get More ROI by NOT Focusing Only on… Mark Graban Jul 18, 2018 5 Blog This post builds off of a little rant I went on over on LinkedIn. I wrote: The Catch-22 of "Lean" training and…
“Small Kaizen” at a Japanese Hospital Pharmacy, Part 1 Mark Graban May 8, 2018 1 Blog I'm overdue in writing more about my last trip to Japan a few months back. Today, I'll like to share some…
Podcast #305 – Respect for People and Continuous Improvement for Healthcare… Mark Graban Apr 11, 2018 0 Interviews I was recently asked to do a recorded video presentation for a medical conference in Turkey. I spoke about the dual…
#ChangeChampions at Franciscan St. Francis Health – in Supply Chain and… Mark Graban Nov 6, 2017 0 Blog Today, I'd like to share the second in my series of articles about "Champions of Change." Here, we feature my…
5 Years Since the Publication of “Healthcare Kaizen” –… Mark Graban Jul 24, 2017 11 Blog One thing I like about Facebook is the way it reminds you about things that happened on this date in previous…
A Recommended Sequence of Podcasts and Webinars on Kaizen and Continuous… Mark Graban Jul 17, 2017 0 Blog I've produced A LOT of content about Kaizen and continuous improvement over the past 11 years, including podcasts…
#TBT: Kaizen Upon Kaizen in Meeting Scheduling (and a New Kaizen of Mine) Mark Graban Jun 22, 2017 0 Blog Kaizen is an incremental approach to problem solving and continuous improvement. We don't need to put pressure on…