Operational Excellence Mixtape: February 14, 2020 Ryan McCormack Feb 14, 2020 0 Mixtape Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients "We have a good people in a bad system". Here's an !-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
Operational Excellence Mixtape: December 20, 2019 Ryan McCormack Dec 21, 2019 0 Mixtape Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients It's been 20 years since To Err is Human, the seminal!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
GE’s CEO Larry Culp Goes to the Gemba, Looks to Understand the Real Reality Mark Graban Oct 17, 2019 1 Audio Here's an article from Bloomberg BusinessWeek: GE's Larry Culp Faces Ultimate CEO Test in Trying to Save a!-->!-->!-->…
Episode #2 of the “Lean Whiskey” Podcast on GE, Boeing, and More Mark Graban May 23, 2019 2 Lean Whiskey Mark and Jamie Jamie Flinchbaugh and I got a great response to the first episode of our new "Lean Whiskey"!-->!-->!-->…
Would Today’s General Electric Recognize the Ideas in their Old “Blue… Andy Wagner Feb 21, 2019 5 Blog Mark's note: It's been a long time since Andy Wagner contributed a post to the blog, but we've remained friends!-->…
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…
Key Tweets from @MarkGraban – Week of November 23, 2015: Starbuck Drips, GE… Mark Graban Nov 29, 2015 0 Blog Here's the latest installment of "Key Tweets," a weekly post that summarizes some of my tweets (or retweets) from…
Podcast #229 – John Dyer, Reflections on Deming, Six Sigma, and More Mark Graban Sep 8, 2015 0 Blog My guest for episode #229 is John Dyer, president of his consulting firm, JD&A, Inc., and a contributor!-->!-->!-->…
Throwback Thursday: Dr. Deming’s Last Interview & Jack Welch’s… Mark Graban Apr 23, 2015 12 Audio To the left is a young baby me. I don't think I was thinking about Dr. Deming as a baby, but thankfully my parents…
Random Super Bowl XLIX Lean-Like Moments – Katy Perry and GE Mark Graban Feb 1, 2015 2 Blog Following up my earlier post about the "Patriot Way..." During her halftime extravaganza (video), Katy Perry had…
TV Ad for GE Capital Features a Lean Turnaround for a Factory Mark Graban Oct 2, 2014 1 Blog Thanks to my friend and former Toyota employee Karthik Chandramouli for noticing this commercial on TV. In the…
Notes from Day 1 of the #LeanStartup Conference 2013 Mark Graban Dec 10, 2013 3 Blog It was an amazing first day of the Lean Startup conference yesterday in San Francisco. Videos will be available…
Parallels and Learning Between Aircraft Engine MRO and Human Healthcare Mark Graban Oct 7, 2013 10 Blog My wife is a leader in a business (not GE) that does aircraft engine "MRO" work - maintenance, repair, and…
Lean & the “Work-Out” Process in Healthcare – Success, My… Mark Graban Sep 17, 2013 4 Blog In the past few years, I've heard of the "Work-Out" process that has origins at GE. This consultant's website gives…
Weekend Fun: 30 Rock Mocks GE’s Manufacturing Reshoring Mark Graban Apr 21, 2012 2 Blog One of the things I love about the NBC show "30 Rock" is the way is skewers GE culture (such as its past mocking of…
Fox News Channel Understands “Lean” Better than the WSJ Mark Graban May 2, 2011 7 Blog On Friday, there was yet another Wall Street Journal article about Lean (fixating as they always do on the "Just In…
30 Rock: Jack Donaghy is a “Six Sigma Black Belt Ultra” – And He… Mark Graban Feb 8, 2011 10 Blog Absolutely hilarious... last Thursday's "30 Rock" features Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) talking about how he's!-->!-->!-->…
G.E. Rediscovers the Value in Providing Real Value to Manufacturing Customers Mark Graban Dec 16, 2010 7 Blog I'll apologize if today's post seems off-topic to my healthcare readers, but I have to share a link to a Sunday New…