Mark Graban

Mark Graban
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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.

When Your Only Tool is a Hammer…

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IndustryWeek : Beyond Lean: The Perfect Lean MarketSubscribe to IndustryWeek... everything looks like a nail. Right?I'm an Industry Week subscriber and the magazine...

The Nun and the Bureaucrat

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ManagementWisdom.comI blogged earlier about an excellent "Lean Healthcare" DVD called "Good News: How Hospitals Heal Themselves". Please call or email your...

Everyday Waste: Stamps

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I realize that I'm not doing well on personal inventory management when I'm sending out Mothers Day cards with Christmas stamps! At least...

Ford: Red White and… Blowhard?

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WSJ.com - Mom, Apple Pie and...Toyota?Ford and it's "Way Forward" leader, Mark Fields, have been trying to wrap the company in the U.S. flag...

Oops We Double Ordered!

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The Evolving Excellence blog posted a video showing radar of FedEx planes flying into Memphis with a thunderstorm approaching. Funny video. I...

An Obvious Place to Cut Costs

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Executives Take Company Planes as if Their Own - New York TimesI don't know if Intel's CEO uses the corporate jet as his own,...

Lean Hospital Design

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To reduce errors, hospitals use innovative designsThis article appeared Monday in the Wall St Journal, it reminded me of Jamie's postings on lean factory...

Healthcare Quality and Efficiency Incentives

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A better tool to fight rising health costs? - The Boston GlobeFrom a lean perspective, you have to admire any sincere efforts to help...

Toyota Profits Up

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AP Wire | 05/10/2006 | Toyota's quarterly profit jumps 39 percentQuarterly business update on Toyota, including some executive changes.Just about the only recent trouble...

Free LEI Webinar Thursday

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Register for Lean Webinar Click on the link above for more information. "You'll lose the hard-won gains of a lean transformation unless you win the hearts...

Leveling Mothers Day?

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Wall St. Journal (free via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) Here is an interesting article on the very manual efforts at AT&T to balance supply (phone circuit...

Buffalo NY discovers Toyota, Buffalo WV

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Buffalo News - Auto plant thrives in Buffalo (Buffalo, West Virginia, that is) It amazes me that people are still "discovering" Toyota. Good article,...