Mark Graban
Mark Graban is an internationally-recognized consultant, author, and professional speaker, and podcaster with experience in healthcare, manufacturing, and startups.
Mark's new book is The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation.
He is also the author of Measures of Success: React Less, Lead Better, Improve More, the Shingo Award-winning books Lean Hospitals and Healthcare Kaizen, and the anthology Practicing Lean.
Mark is also a Senior Advisor to the technology company KaiNexus.
Why Clean Your Desk? Is This 5S?
Why Clean Up Your Desk? Delight in Disorder Instead (WSJ $$)What does a clean desk have to do with 5S? It depends. ...
ThedaCare Continues the Lean Journey
ThedaCare program gets boostThedaCare has already been seen as a leader in applying lean to hospitals, but its good to see they are continuing...
Making it Easy to do the Right Thing
Here is a simple example that I think qualifies as a "5S" example, albeit a non-traditional one. This is a dirty beverage...
5S Example from Toyota
Peter Abilla's Shmula Blog Peter pointed me to this example he posted a while back, he says "it's an authentic artifact from Toyota. ...
Mulally: Toyota Good (Once Again)
Mulally Pans `Paranoid' Ford, Pushes Toyota-Style ProductionI criticized Alan Mulally earlier, via my criticism of Boeing. To be clear: I respect Mulally....
David Meier on Getting Up and Starting Again
Message Board, direct link to David's Post (scroll down the page) - the board site is defunct.
Here are some comments by David Meier that...
Toyota Roundup
Lots of Toyota news with the new Tundra and the Detroit Auto Show going on:Toyota Enters the Auto Show With a Swagger (NY Times)From...
Lean Blog Homework – CNBC CEO Videos
I can't get the videos to play on my PC. CNBC did interviews today with the Big 3 big wigs, a big mullet,...
Boeing’s "Elegantly" Screwed Up Supply Chain
I was waiting on Evolving Excellence to post on this, so read their post first, but I had to chime in (original WSJ...
5S Week on the Lean Blog
Jamie's Earlier 5S Column
In honor of our new Sponsor, The 5S Store, this is "5S Week" on the Lean Blog. We'll feature commentary from...
GM Goes Big with Inventory
WSJ: At GM, Curbing Inventories Calls For Juggling ActFrom the article:At the end of December, GM had more than one million vehicles in...
Toyota Goes Big…
Toyota bulks up Tundra, hoping to draw a crowd of buyersThey go big, but stay lean (or they're getting "leaner").It's been hard to avoid...
