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.
How Incentives Are Ineffective
Reward and Incentive Programs are Ineffective -- Even Harmful by Peter R. Scholtes
It's worth a full post and full link, this article that John...
Another Lean Healthcare Overview
Squeezing the fat from health care - baltimoresun.comHere is another nice overview of some of the results seen from the application of Lean Thinking...
People want to do Quality Work
A question to ask yourselves (if you're in management): does your management system allow people to do their best work? Even if...
Review – The Toyota Way Fieldbook
The Lean Library
Here is a long overdue review of the book, The Toyota Way Fieldbook. I wrote the review following the format of The...
OK, So It’s Not the "Lean Travel" Blog
I know not everybody travels, so y'all might not be concerned about attempts to see lean (or NON lean) practices in the travel world....
Some Detailed NASA Standard Work
Spacewalkers complete work on space stationThe exact stat isn't in the article I linked to above, but I saw in a magazine at the...
Leadership and Lean Manufacturing: A Conversation with Jamie Flinchbaugh – LeanBlog...
Here is LeanBlog Podcast #6, the second part of my discussion with Jamie Flinchbaugh, co-author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to Lean. You can find...
A tale of two factories – China and U.S.
A tale of two factories - FORTUNEHere is an interesting piece from the latest FORTUNE magazine. The reporter visited two Tenneco Automotive plants...
When Ford Was A Startup
800-CEO-READ Blog: When Ford Was A Startup:Here's a post by Tom Ehrenfeld, a friend of the Lean Blog. He writes about a book...
Lean Isn’t Just About Cost — Healthcare
Kaizen and Lean Manufacturing thoughts | Gemba Panta ReiThanks to the Gemba blog. The article he linked to talks about the need to...
Dark Outlook for Non-Lean Car Makers
WSJ.com - Ford and Chrysler Show Dark Outlook For U.S. Car Makers
I received an email from a blog reader, Jack, from Tampa FL. I...
Womack’s Take on Ford
Jim Womack sent out one of his emails today, this time focused on Ford, with their termoil. Either he writes quickly or he...
