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.
Chrysler’s Waste of Overproduction
My dad alerted me to this article from Automotive News. It's not available free online, I have a pdf copy that I could...
Cutting Corners or Cutting out Waste?
cbs4boston.com - Pats Install Synthetic Turf At Gillette Stadium
I was watching the Bears/Patriots game yesterday and the announcers mentioned that a new artificial turf...
Enlightening Top Leadership on the Benefits of Lean: A Conversation with...
Here is LeanBlog Podcast #11, once again with Norman Bodek of PCS Press and the author of many books, including Kaikaku: The Power and...
Poor Quality Costs Hospitals
Hospital-acquired infections take toll on bottom lines - USATODAY.comOne of the problems that hospitals are trying to reduce, through lean methods and other good...
Lean in a Danish School
A blog reader from Denmark, Peter, emailed me about a school that is applying lean and "Japanese production philosophies" (no kidding). The original article...
"Measuring Minds at Work"
There's a column with that title in the current issue of Business 2.0 magazine, the Nov 2006 issue. I'm re-posting this because the article...
"New" Learning about Lean Blog
Learning about LeanJoe Ely is re-starting his blog, now with a focus on his very personal lean journey at work. Should make for...
Driving Organizational Change with Lean Principles: Insights from Jamie Flinchbaugh –...
Here is LeanBlog Podcast #10, again with Jamie Flinchbaugh, Founder of and Partner, co-author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to Lean.
In this Podcast, we respond to...
Lean-icopia of Toyota Articles
Here's a flock of articles about the new Toyota San Antonio plant that opened last week:Off to an aggressive start (Houston Chronicle)Plant President Hidehiko...
College Football Annual Review Problems
MICHAEL ROSENBERG: Let's play 2?The above article talks about how, for all the talk of "computers" selecting the top two Division 1 college football...
“No Satisfaction” at Toyota
No Satisfaction - Toyota - Georgetown - Car Factory
Thanks to a blog reader, Dan, for pointing this article out to me.
This past week...
Toyota San Antonio Starts Production
MySA.com: Metro | StateThe Toyota truck plant in Texas has started production. For all of the talk this week from the Big 3...
