I Can’t Believe You Can’t “Undo” This Thing in Microsoft…
Lean focuses on making it easy for people to do the right thing. We also work hard to "error proof" processes and…
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Getting an Earful: Symptoms of Poor Healthcare Systems While Getting an Ear…
On Saturday, I visited a clinic housed in a retail pharmacy... my symptoms turned out to be caused by an ear…
Why I Was Happy My Website Host Mistake Proofed Against Me Deleting the Wrong Site
Mistake proofing is a core Lean / TPS concept that makes it harder for people to do the wrong thing. Ideally, we…
Podcast #199 – Jeff Gothelf, #LeanUX
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Joining me for episode #199 is Jeff Gothelf (@jboogie), talking about "Lean UX" or…
Preaching to the Choir: Lean Works Everywhere
Some of you might have seen it, but I wrote a piece for the LinkedIn Influencers series about how the "Lean…
The power of the (Lean) startup mindset
Last week, while in Canada, I saw this article in the Globe & Mail: "The power of the startup mindset."…
Digital Pathology Software Company PathXL on Their Journey to Becoming a Lean…
Mark's Note: Today's post is a guest post by Nial Toner, who works for PathXL in the UK. I thought this was an…
Upcoming Webinars with Mark Graban, Shingo, and KaiNexus
Here are a few upcoming free webinars that I am participating in... I hope you are interested and can attend:
Mark…
Podcast #155 – Jim Benson (@ourfounder), “Personal Kanban”
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Joining me for episode #155 is Jim Benson, co-author of the book Personal Kanban:…
“Blame & Shame” is Shameful
Many leaders in healthcare (including John Toussaint, Paul Levy, and others) are working to eliminate the "name,…
Update on KaiNexus – Making Improvement Easier in New Ways & Places
It's been about a year since I started working with a software startup KaiNexus. We've made a lot of progress in…
Podcast Interview on “Lean Healthcare” for the ScrumCast Show
Today, I'd like to share a podcast where the ScrumCast hosts, Derek Neighbors and Clayton Lengel-Zigich,…
Quitting a Software Application: Safari vs. Chrome & Error Proofing
The two primary web browsers I use these days on my Mac are Safari and Chrome. I've always been a big user of…
Of Blogs and Books (or from Solo to Silo); The Need for Lean in Publishing
As a kid, I always enjoyed writing and, at one point, dreamed of being a baseball beat writer, like the father of…
Changes in Mac OS X “Lion” and Parallels to Workplace Changes
It's nowhere near as important as yesterday's topic of employee and patient safety, but my last two days of using…
Warning: You Can’t Even Draw a Map with this “Value Stream…
If you are a Twitter user and follow the #Lean hashtag on Twitter, you might have seen a lot of noise from a…
Blog Post About Preventable Errors Felled by Preventable Error
So Monday's blog post was about preventable medical errors - namely errors involving pharmacies giving the wrong…
Reminder, Monday Night – Talking at Lean Software Austin Gathering
As a former Austin resident ("Keep Austin Weird!"), I'm happy to be heading down I-35 from Fort Worth to attend the…