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.
Ok Then, I’ll NOT Wreck My Car
The consulting group I work for is a subsidiary of a very large company, with a large fleet of company vehicles. Driver safety...
More Praise for Jack Welch on “30 Rock” – Mind Grapes
From NBC's "30 Rock", a very funny show, again we get more unbridled praise for GE CEO Jack Welch:
Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin): "Jack Welch...
SAP buys Factory Logic
SAP Acquires Lean Software Developer on Managing Automation
Lean software provider Factory Logic, based in Austin TX, has been purchased by powerhouse SAP (who had...
Reducing Paper Waste
GreenPrint's green princeA core component of Lean thinking is the reduction or elimination of waste. Waste is sometimes defined as anything beyond the...
The NBA Not Involving Its Employees Regarding the New Ball?
NBA NOTES: Stern says NBA dropped ball
A key aspect of the Lean Manufacturing mindset is involving and empowering your employees. This is necessary whether...
Shop Amazon.com for the Holidays
If you're shopping on amazon.com for the holidays, you can support the Lean Blog by visiting Amazon through one of the links on the...
Waddell Indicts Prison Labor Managers
Evolving Excellence: If We Weren't All Crazy, We'd Go InsaneBill Waddell hasn't been blogging much lately, but he hits the nail right on the...
TV’s Made in the USA
Olevia opens U.S. LCD and LCos Assembly Plant at Digital Pipeline
I was reading an article in the NY Times today about a downturn in...
Livonia’s not Lean-vonia
As Auto Prosperity Shifts South, Two Towns Offer a Study in Contrasts - New York Times
Here's a free Detroit News version of the article....
Quality of Work and Service, Part 2
Phoenix: Pizzeria Bianco - Traveler Reviews - Pizzeria Bianco...Very Stressful.. - TripAdvisorI wrote the other day about the wonderful high quality food at Pizzeria...
Chrysler’s Overproduction
Chrysler's OT shifts baffle analystsIt's "waste of overproduction" day on the Lean Blog. Here is an article about Chrysler, where analysts are baffled...
GM to back off on Incentives
Via Google News ArchiveAuto incentives... bribing people to buy the car they didn't exactly want, but you built anyway."As part of General Motors'...
