Mark Graban
Mark Graban is an internationally-recognized consultant, author, and professional speaker, and podcaster with experience in healthcare, manufacturing, and startups.
Mark's latest book is The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation, a recipient of the Shingo Publication Award.
He is also the author of Measures of Success: React Less, Lead Better, Improve More, Lean Hospitals and Healthcare Kaizen, and the anthology Practicing Lean, previous Shingo recipients.
Mark is also a Senior Advisor to the technology company KaiNexus.
GM Gaming the Cash Metric
WSJ.com - Can Mr. Fix-It Find Time for GM?:I knew companies played games with inventory numbers. Although there's no rational business reason to...
It’s a Value Problem, not a Cost Problem
WSJ.com - Can Mr. Fix-It Find Time for GM?Part of the discussion about a GM-Nisssan/Renault alliance has been the old "purchasing efficiencies" driven by...
Toast Kaizen DVD
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I received a copy of this DVD through work and...
Interesting Change Model
I found this in a non-lean book, but I can see how this applies to our lean world, this change model:Many of the factories...
Tom Peters on Getting Bigger & Slower
tompeters! management consulting leadership training development project management:
It's no surprise that Tom Peters would have this take. He always asks, "what happens when you...
How to Poka Yoke This?
I received an email from an MBA student in Turkey (this truly is a global lean community). The emailer asked me a question...
Lean Army Video
Lean Army Video (via YouTube.com)Here is a video highlighting the benefits of apply lean to the Army Materiel Command. Improving turnaround time on...
News Flash: NYT Points out that GM is Slow
Jump-Start or New Battery for G.M.? - New York TimesInteresting point made by the New York Times about GM and Nissan-Renault. Most everyone...
New Lean Healthcare Blog
DailyKaizenI don't know if it's fair to call the DailyKaizen site a "lean healthcare" blog, I think we can all learn from it as...
Business Week and Lean Myths
No One Does Lean Like The Japanese - Business WeekThis article has some nice case study examples of how Matsushita is using lean principles...
Toyota: Way, Way Off-Road
Business Week OnlineI knew that Toyota didn't start as a car maker and I knew that they had the business ventures for manufactured homes...
Womack comments on GM-NR
ABC News: Can a Charismatic CEO Save GM?GM partnering with Nissan Renault? Jim Womack doesn't think it will help:"It's hard to see how...
