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.
Welcome to the Blog World, Mr. Bodek
Kaikaku
Norman Bodek now has a lean blog, the link is above. I conducted an interview with Mr. Bodek last week. I'm hoping...
Toyota Quickens Quest to Unseat GM
Toyota Quickens Quest to Unseat GM
As a friend in Detroit pointed out, it's interesting that Toyota is allowing Fuji/Subaru to build Toyota vehicles in...
Toyota plant halted after fire
Reuters Business Channel | Reuters.com
Unlike another blog, I'll point out that were no injuries here. Here's proof, for those of you who want...
Quelling Command and Control Thinking
QW: Freedom from command
This might make for interesting reading in conjunction with the earlier piece on a Lean Air Force.
Consultant and writer John Seddon...
Getting Xbox 360 to market requires coordination
Article Link:Today is the launch date of the new Xbox 360 video game system. Although it's a Microsoft product, it follows the typical Asian...
"Lean Across the Air Force"
There is a memo circulating, dated 11/7/05, from the Secretary of the Air Force, Michael W. Wynne, and General T. Michael Moseley, titled "Lean...
Womack in China: "Consumers want a say in production"
Article Link: Consumers want a say in production:Interesting article:"'China is developing very fast. But much of the growth is based on the model of...
GM to Cut 30,000 Jobs, Close 3, no 4, no 9,...
Yahoo! NewsUgh, worse than the reports suggested earlier this morning.GM has been crippled by high labor, pension, health care and materials costs as...
GM and Toyota, Passing In The Night
From today's WSJ, in the article about GM's possible plant closures:While the details of GM's plans remain unclear, GM officials have said that their...
Toyota’s Quality Will Suffer With Their Growth?
Toyota is on track to top GM sales:There are more articles today, including the WSJ, about the possiblity that Toyota will become #1 in...
The Man Who Invented Management
Business Week
Here is another tribute to Peter Drucker, this time from Business Week.Please check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org
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"Iowa is a Manufacturing State"
DesMoinesRegister.com
Interesting to see that Iowa's manufacturing economy is six times bigger than agriculture. It's good for people to recognize that manufacturing is important,...
