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.
LEI Survey on Lean Challenges
lean enterprise institute survey (Google cache HTML)Click here for Word Doc versionI don't recall seeing this survey last year and the 2006 survey is...
"Lean Is Harmony"
Got Boondoggle?: Lean Manufacturing EpiphanyGreat post from Mike about his Japan tour, including this gem:My lean manufacturing epiphany is quite simple, LEAN IS HARMONY....
"Lookalike" Drug Packaging
Drug makers must think about different packaging | IndyStar.comHere's a picture of the two drugs that were mixed up when the three babies were...
What Are We Searching For? Part Deux
From the Lean Blog server logs.... I did this back in February and here's what people are searching for today.... not the most popular...
Incentives for On-Time, But What About Quality?
Rotorhub: The Information Hub of the Helicopter IndustryHere's an article about some military helicopter part production and a "lean" system.This jumped out at me:At...
Amateurs Do It Right….
I like this quote from, of all companies, General Motors -- a GMC Truck ad:
"Amateurs work until they get it right. Professionals work until...
Teaching Managers to Manage (or Better Yet, Lead)
Managers Rate Themselves High, But Workers Prove Tough Critics - WSJ.comThere are always stories about how something like 80% of employees think they are...
"Lean and mean manufacturing"
Lean and mean manufacturing - 9/26/2006 - Modern Materials Handling
When I see "mean" in a headline, it's strange... I would expect that to be...
Lean is the Norm??
Including the Missing Links in the Global Supply Chain - InformationWeek White Papers:Here's one more reason to NOT pay attention to "lean" articles...
Great Kanban Story from David Meier
Here is a story from David Meier, a former Group Leader at Toyota and the co-author of The Toyota Way Fieldbook and the upcoming...
Lack of Error Proofing Kills 3 Babies
This is an incredibly sad, and completely preventable, situation. Three babies are dead, and three more injured, because the wrong drug was administered...
An Example of Incentives Harming Customers
Flight Attendants Extort Blanket Sales From Freezing Passengers - ConsumeristIn an earlier post's comments, Luke pointed out the importance of having the RIGHT incentives....
