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.
Lean to Save Us From Bird Flu?
Engineers could aid bird flu vaccine effort
Interesting stuff.... time to break bottlenecks in vaccine production!
Avian flu experts appealed on Monday to engineers -- a...
Hillary on Lean and GM
Chicago Sun TimesI don't mean to turn this into a political forum. I will say I don't like Hillary Clinton or her politics....
Chrysler Gains Edge by Giving New Flexibility to Its Factories
WSJ.com - $$ Subscription RequiredFront page article today about Chrysler and flexible manufacturing, focused on the retooled plant in Belvidere IL. Here is...
Pharmacy Error Proofing Example
Here is a great example of error proofing that I've never seen before. It's springtime, so my allergies have been killing me, especially...
Leading Lean: Missed Opportunity
Departments - ASSEMBLY
Here is the latest lean column from Jamie Flinchbaugh. You can read my Q&A with Jamie here, and he is also the author...
Hotel Room Error Proofing
This Is Broken - Hotel room warningI saw a large ad in the paper Friday that reminded me of this blog posting (link above)....
A Very Cool Flow Rack?
BRL005_NDES_Flow_Rack - Bosch Rexroth Corp.I'm sure most lean practioners have used flow racks for material storage, part presentation, and/or kanban systems.Here is a rack...
Toyota and Systems Costs
Toyota sees hefty production-related cost cuts - MarketWatchIt will be interesting to learn more about this approach as more is announced in the press....
Womack Audio on Bloomberg.com
Bloomberg.com: News & CommentaryCheck out the link on the right hand side for the interview with Jim Womack (requires Real Player software).Here are some...
Some New Toyota Facts
Focus: Toyota powers to the front - Sunday Times - Times OnlineFrom England, an article that gives a historical overview of Toyota with some...
Which Albatross Needs Dumping?
WSJ.com - Lesser Than the Sum of Its Parts . . .The linked column requires a paid WSJ subscription, but I'll try to summarize....
Some Positive Lean Tales
So here's a palate cleanser after talking about GM and the failed "lean" efforts that led to a strike at Conn-Selmer (see below).Here are...
