A Modern Version of Lucy and the Chocolate Factory — But With Sushi (Drake… Mark Graban Jan 11, 2023 0 Blog I bet many of you know the famous "Chocolate Factory" scene from the TV classic "I Love Lucy." Even if you're too!-->…
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: October 22, 2021 Ryan McCormack Oct 22, 2021 0 Mixtape Thanks as always to Ryan McCormick for this... there's always so much good reading, listening, and viewing!-->!-->!-->…
Ryan Weiss on Purpose + People + Process = Performance; Modernizing TWI Mark Graban May 18, 2021 0 Interviews Scroll down for video, how to subscribe, video, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #414!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
A Dutch Engineer Now Working in Lean Healthcare: Arnout Orelio Mark Graban Mar 2, 2021 1 Interviews My guest for Episode #403 is Arnout Orelio, author of the book Lean Thinking for Emerging Healthcare!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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!-->!-->!-->…
Will “Kaizen” Get the Buffalo Bills to Next Year’s Super Bowl? Mark Graban Jan 28, 2021 6 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!-->…
Why Did Some Patients Get Injected With 5X the Pfizer Covid Vaccine Dose? Mark Graban Jan 19, 2021 10 Blog Before I get into this post, I want to also point you to another post that I wrote for the Value Capture blog: !-->!-->!-->…
For Covid-19 Preparedness, Hospitals Need More Than Written Protocols Mark Graban Mar 16, 2020 2 Audio I've been thinking a lot about hospitals and how they're preparing for the expected tsunami of Covid-19 patients!-->…
Podcast #347 — Brad Parsons, Hospital CEO & Co-Author of… Mark Graban Sep 9, 2019 0 Interviews Our guest today for Episode 347 is Brad Parsons, the CEO of NEA Baptist, in Jonesboro, Arkansas. NEA Baptist!-->!-->!-->…
Are You a Good Coach? An Effective Coach? HBR Says You Might Not Be Mark Graban Sep 5, 2018 2 Blog Some colleagues recently sent me a Harvard Business Review article that has a fairly accusatory title, although…
Podcast #314 – Skip Steward & Brandon Brown, on TWI & Kata in… Mark Graban Aug 15, 2018 0 Interviews Today I have two guests joining me for Episode #314 of the podcast. They are Skip Steward, the Chief Improvement…
Recorded Webinar: TWI and Kata: Skill Patterns to Develop a Culture of Coaching Mark Graban Aug 9, 2018 0 Blog Here is a recorded webinar... I played host (along with KaiNexus) for this webinar that was held Tuesday, August…
Following the Rules in Japan: Lean, Sushi, and Otherwise Mark Graban Mar 12, 2018 0 Blog Last week, I got back from my third trip to Japan and we visited three hospitals, Toyota, another manufacturer, and…
#TBT: Past Posts About the Society for Health Systems Mark Graban Mar 2, 2017 0 Blog Today is the start of the main days of the annual Society for Health Systems Conference. I think this is my 9th…
Some Great #Lean Videos from the State of Washington (@ResultsWA) on Culture,… Mark Graban Feb 9, 2017 0 Blog Here are some recorded keynote talks and video presentations from the "Results Washington" annual conference, as…
The Time I Volunteered at a Distillery and Couldn’t Help Doing Kaizen Mark Graban Aug 17, 2016 10 Blog One thing I enjoy is the opportunity to basically be a “value adding” worker in a process. The work is pretty…
#TBT: Looking Back at Taiichi Ohno’s Book: Lean, Layoffs, Henry Ford, and… Mark Graban Apr 14, 2016 3 Blog Thanks to my Amazon Kindle app on my iPad, I get to carry much of my book collection with me. Sometimes, while…
Are Millennials the Only Ones Who Need to Understand Why? Mark Graban Sep 16, 2015 10 Blog And the idea of knowing why... again that's an old desire. It's not just a recent discovery of Simon Sinek and the…