When People Start Sharing Their Amazing Covid Vaccination Improvements Mark Graban Feb 16, 2021 5 Blog The past two weeks, I've been part of an initiative that's like a social-benefit startup effort within a startup.!-->…
Will “Kaizen” Get the Buffalo Bills to Next Year’s Super Bowl? Mark Graban Jan 28, 2021 4 Blog I'm not a Buffalo Bills fan (a.k.a. "The Bills Mafia"), but I did attend one game at what was then called Rich!-->…
Commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. Day — Keep Moving Forward Mark Graban Jan 18, 2021 5 Blog Let's commemorate Monday's national holiday for Dr. King with a look back at my post from 2012... A Lean Lesson!-->!-->!-->…
“Adopting and Adapting” TPS to the Raymond Lean Management System Mark Graban Oct 27, 2020 0 Interviews My guest for Episode #390 is Keith Ingels, the TPS (Toyota Production System) Manager for Raymond Corporation!-->!-->!-->…
Join Me Tomorrow for a Panel Discussion on the “Future of CI in a Changing… Mark Graban Aug 5, 2020 0 Blog Thanks to Keivan Zokaei and SA Partners for inviting me to be part of a webinar panel discussion that's being held!-->…
I Learned a New Word for Our Continuous Improvement Vocabulary — Maybe Mark Graban Jul 27, 2020 2 Blog Almost to a fault, the Lean methodology includes a lot of Japanese words, including kaizen, a word used to!-->…
[Recording] Another Panel Discussion Webinar on Real Continuous Improvement in… Mark Graban Jul 23, 2020 0 Blog In June, I moderated a panel discussion webinar (as part of the KaiNexus series) on the theme of virtual!-->…
[Recording] Panel Discussion Webinar on Virtual Improvement Mark Graban Jun 4, 2020 1 Blog It's a big webinar week for me, as I presented two (here and here) and I moderated a new webinar in the KaiNexus!-->…
Operational Excellence Mixtape: May 22, 2020 Ryan McCormack May 22, 2020 0 Mixtape Thanks as always to Ryan McCormick for this... Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Customer!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
Podcast #370 — Edward Blackman on Combining Behavioral Science with… Mark Graban May 12, 2020 0 Interviews Joining me for Episode #370 is Edward Blackman, the founder and managing partner of Kelda Consulting. He has!-->…
Song Parody: If I Had a Million Kaizens Mark Graban Apr 18, 2020 0 Blog I was cleaning out my hard drive (I hesitate to call that "5S-ing")... moving some files to an external disk and!-->…
Improvements in Walking and Hospital Covid-19 Incident Response Teams Mark Graban Apr 3, 2020 0 Blog In this post, I'd like to share two posts from the KaiNexus Blog. Walking More Safely I wrote this post for!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
Continuing to Continuously Improve My Online Scheduling Process Mark Graban Apr 2, 2020 3 Blog For years, I've scheduled many phone calls and web meetings. That's only increased during this current Covid-19!-->…
Kaizens at the Grocery Store (and the Drug Store) [COVID-19] Mark Graban Mar 31, 2020 4 Blog I wrote a blog post for KaiNexus that's the first in a series that we're going to run about "Opportunities for!-->…
Is Your Hospital Punishing or Encouraging People’s Necessary Creativity… Mark Graban Mar 23, 2020 7 Blog This blog post is a collaboration with a Lean healthcare consulting friend of mine, who heard another unfortunate!-->…
Must Dos and Nice to Haves: Performance Reviews and Continuous Improvement? Mark Graban Feb 18, 2020 1 Blog There's a very well known cartoon that you might have seen where a caveman offers round wheels to other cavemen!-->…
Operational Excellence Mixtape: January 17, 2020 Ryan McCormack Jan 17, 2020 0 Mixtape Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Sometimes you just need to get a team together and improve.!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
From Japan: “We were not always a Kaizen company” — Surprising? Mark Graban Dec 16, 2019 2 Blog Here is something brief that I posted on LinkedIn while I was in Japan recently, but I also wanted to share it!-->…