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.
Financiers Discover that Manufacturing Lives
How Financiers Pursue Profit At Skidding Auto-Parts Maker
Here's another article in the WSJ's "Wow, we still build stuff here" series (my unofficial title). This...
Last Day for the Challenges Contest
Today is the last day to enter the contest, see more details here.If you'd like to enter, you have until 5 PM central time.Happy...
"Tag" – 5 Things You Don’t Know About Me
StartupGarden: Tag in the BlogosphereOK, this is not Lean related, but I try to show a little personality around here once in a while....
Lean and Green
Sir Richard Branson: Making the Skies Green - Enterprise Management - MSNBC.comThanks to blog reader Marc for sending this my way. He points...
Lean Guns, Again
12/18/2006 - Smith & Wesson Buys Thompson/Center Arms - Outdoors - Chattanoogan.com:
Yesterday, it was the maker of Ruger firearms... today it's Smith & Wesson...
I’m Not Always Right…
I don't claim to always be right here on the Blog (or in general). Sometimes I throw ideas out there and I learn...
OT, then Plant Shutdowns = Waste
Chrysler Extending Plant Closures Over Christmas in Bid to Shrink Inventory: Financial News - Yahoo! FinanceWe read this morning in the WSJ about how...
Article by Upcoming Podcast Guest
IndustryWeek : Lean Improvement: What To Tackle FirstHere is the 2nd part of a two-part Industry Week series by Dave Gleditsch, the Chief Technology...
The Gift of Overproduction
Honey, You Shouldn't Have - WSJ.comUpdate: I was probably wrong on this one (see here).You see the ads for Lexus with the cars...
We’d be fine if you just Paid us More
Hospitals prescribe increased reimbursements from insurers to aid recovery of sickly health care systemHospitals need to learn to reduce costs. You can't just...
Boeing Still Improving with Lean
Manufacturing overhaul will help Boeing avoid bottlenecks - MarketWatchHere's a Wall St. analyst who is actually high on their lean efforts:"The key behind lean...
A Realistic Lean Challenge
Sturm, Ruger to offer buyoutsI've been getting entries in the "Lean Challenge" contest and read about this challenge online. We all talk about...
