The Video From the Toyota Museum in Nagoya, Japan Mark Graban Dec 12, 2022 0 Blog When I visited the Toyota Museum in Nagoya, Japan (see my previous blog posts about it), they had a display that!-->…
Philip Holt on Leading and Living Lean, With Simplicity Mark Graban Oct 12, 2022 0 Interviews Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #460 of the Lean!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
This WSJ Article About Lean Isn’t Terrible (Thanks to GE and CEO Larry Culp) Mark Graban Nov 17, 2021 2 Blog The Wall Street Journal has an epic track record when it comes to always getting it wrong when they write about!-->…
Operational Excellence Mixtape: Jan 29, 2021 Ryan McCormack Jan 29, 2021 0 Mixtape Thanks as always to Ryan McCormick for this... there's always so much good reading, listening, and viewing!-->!-->!-->…
Anti-Racism: A River WE Must Cross Elisabeth Swan Aug 9, 2020 6 Blog Starting With the Grand-Daddies of Quality Elisabeth Swan A few years back I developed a blog series titled,!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
Episode #13 of “Lean Whiskey”: Don’t Drink Pacific Northwest… Mark Graban Feb 14, 2020 0 Lean Whiskey Mark Graban & Jamie Flinchbaugh In Episode 13 of Lean Whiskey, Mark Graban and Jamie Flinchbaugh reconnect!-->!-->!-->…
Our Condo Maintenance Guy Gets the Point of 5S and Maximizing his Productivity Mark Graban May 6, 2019 1 Blog I got onto the elevator in the lobby of our condo building one day last week. Our building's maintenance guy was!-->…
A Toyota Leader on Misunderstandings About the Toyota Production System Mark Graban Apr 24, 2019 11 Blog Thanks to Pablo Alvarez Flores, who posted this video on LinkedIn with an invitation for me to share my comments!-->…
Highlights from our Lean Event Tour at Toyota Mark Graban Oct 2, 2018 2 Blog Last week was our first "Symposium on Learning Organizations" where we brought together 40 people with diverse…
Telling Dentists or Patients What to Do or Evoking Reasons for Change? Mark Graban Jul 30, 2018 1 Blog In this post, I talk about my dental practices "need" to get Lean, my need to floss, and some of the tactics that…
Major League Baseball Works on Standardizing the Ball… For What Purpose? Mark Graban May 29, 2018 2 Blog Back in 2014, I wrote an article for The Lean Post: "Standardization is a Countermeasure, Never the Goal" I'm a…
What Books on #Lean and TPS Are Sold at the Toyota Museum in Nagoya? Mark Graban Feb 26, 2018 0 Blog It's Monday morning in Nagoya, Japan as I write this. I'm still jet-lagged and up early, so here's a blog post…
If You React to Every Blip in the Metrics, Then Nothing is a Priority? Mark Graban Oct 26, 2017 8 Blog Here's another post on the theme of performance metrics, as I'm talking about next week at Lean Startup Week (see…
Podcast #290 – @EricRies: From #Lean to #LeanStartup to #TheStartupWay Mark Graban Oct 16, 2017 2 Interviews Joining me again for episode 290 is a three-time guest, Eric Ries. When we first talked, in episode 115 six years…
How Toyota Gets Organizations Started with TPS Mark Graban Sep 18, 2017 0 Blog Last week, I mentioned it was the 25th anniversary of TSSC -- formerly known as the Toyota Supplier Support Center…
My Webinar Recording: Standardize What Makes Sense… Mark Graban Aug 16, 2017 4 Audio Today at 3 PM, I'm doing a webinar at the invitation of the BC Patient Safety & Quality Council, as part of…
[Updated] Texas Rangers’ 3B Adrian Beltre Ejected for 5S or Standardized… Mark Graban Jul 28, 2017 0 Blog Update: See the end of the post with some photos I took at the game yesterday where Beltre got his 3000th career!-->…
Is Calling People “Concrete Heads” the Most Effective Lean Change… Mark Graban Apr 18, 2017 3 Blog When did the term "concrete head" start getting thrown around in Lean circles? Do people still use this label…