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.
Wall St. Doesn’t Respect GE’s Processes
With Its Stock Still Lackluster, G.E. Confronts the Curse of the Conglomerate - New York TimesThanks to blog reader Steve for sending this my...
Boeing’s Beer Game
Boeing to shut down C-17 production
Boeing is planning to shut down production of a cargo aircraft. It's a slightly different lesson than the Ford...
Ford to Reduce Overproduction
Ford making deep cuts in 2006 production - Yahoo! News:It's sad to see factories shut down, temporarily or permanently, but it's sad that Ford...
But it was to "Six Sigma" standards…
Six Sigma Blog: Fire alarms: The Dell notebook scare and Six Sigma defect controlCIO MagazineI'm sure you've heard of the cases of Dell laptops...
Northwest Not Respecting Former Workers
Northwest advised workers to see treasure in trash | Reuters.comHere is an incredibly sad example of a company (or someone in the company) not...
A Speech by Toyota’s Gary Convis
"Toyota's Globalization Takes Shape through the Camry"The link above the full text of a speech by Gary Convis, who I really admire as a...
Lean Health Care? It Works! (Still)
IndustryWeek : Lean Health Care? It Works!Here is a piece from 2003, still incredibly relevant. There is a great story of how lean...
Welcome Bill Hanover
I'd like to welcome our latest Lean Blog contributor, Bill Hanover (his first post is here). Bill has been a frequent participant with...
Great Little Lean Company
Workers contribute to bottom line | Chicago TribuneThis is a great example of how a $2.5M revenue company (Flexible Steel Lacing Co, outside of...
Bad Habits for the Next Generation
Like Father, Like Daughter - 08/12/06 - The Detroit News Online (scroll down for this item)Here is a story that made me cringe about...
GM: Not Braindead, Just Slow
Camaro Homecoming - 08/11/06 - The Detroit News Online
Yahoo News Photo
So GM and Rick Wagoner aren't "braindead" after all, as we might have suspected...
Management Causes Poor Morale
Low morale linked to management, not moneyIs this from the "well duh" category? The article is short and basically a press release, so...
