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.

Exclusive Q&A with Jim Womack Part 3

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Here is installment #3 in my exclusive Q&A with Jim Womack, co-author of Lean Solutions along with Daniel Jones. Here, Jim discusses more Lean...

USA Today summary of Lean Solutions

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USATODAY.com - Efficiency can solve a host of problems From yesterday's USA Today.Please check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org The RSS feed content you...

Visual Controls Example at Starbucks

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I liked seeing this at my local Starbucks. As they sell whole bean coffee and bags are removed, you can see stickers that have...

A Border Guard’s Perspective on Quality

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A story from a friend in Detroit:I was crossing the border from Michigan into Ontario, both places where a lot of cars are manufactured....

Exclusive Q&A With Jim Womack, Part 2

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Thanks again to Jim Womack for his participation. In the next few installments, we'll move into questions about America's manufacturing competitiveness, Dell Computer, and...

How to get more than 100 percent — ask Toyota

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Columnist Doron Levin Interesting quote, about the power of small improvements: "Toyota just saves and saves in a million little ways and then uses that money...

Exclusive Q&A With Jim Womack, Part 1

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Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 New Q&A February 2006 Be sure to see all five parts of the Q&A,...

Toyota, others steer clear of unions

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MySA.com : Printer Friendly StoryFrom the same newspaper that brings you "The sun is hot" on the weather page. Don't get me wrong,...

Poor hospital processes may have killed man

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MercuryNews.com | 11/02/2005 | Medical mistake may have killed manIt is really sad when errors like this occur, it happens far too often in...

NUMMI Tour Tales #5: Nobody is Perfect

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NUMMI Tour Tale #4: The Pull Gift Shop While the NUMMI plant would score very highly on any measure of "Visual Management" standards, you can...

Exxonmobil focuses on Product, Not solutions?

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USATODAY.com - Gas companies' record profits take toll on average Americans:"'We're an oil and gas company,' Exxon spokesman Dave Gardner says."It seems that Exxonmobil...

"It really is hard to be easy"

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USATODAY.com - Why are tech gizmos so hard to figure out?:I love quote, in the USA Today, about why so many gadgets are tough...