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 Manufacturing — An Idea Whose Time Is Coming to Forest...
Industrial Reporting, Inc. Article
Another case of how every factory and industry likes to thing they are different, with hand wringing over "lean works"...
The Math On Dell’s Defects
Something still doesn't seem right, after thinking about it more in a cab ride, about the Dell quality numbers and the cost to repair...
Dell Has "Excess Inventories?"
Article Link --> Dell Will Miss Q3 Target - CIO News Alerts - Blog - CIODell Computer announced they are not going to meet...
Domestic Quick Turnaound Sox Shirts
Article Link --> Chicago Tribune | After Sox victory, firms go to workI'm in Chicago and saw this in the Trib. The World Series...
NUMMI Tour Tale #4: The Pull Gift Shop
NUMMI Tour Tale #1: Why Fix the Escalator?
NUMMI Tour Tale #2: The Power of Reynolds Wrap
NUMMI Tour Tale #3: The Power of Why
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NUMMI Tour Tale #3: The Power of Why
NUMMI Tour Tale #1: Why Fix the Escalator?NUMMI Tour Tale #2: The Power of Reynolds Wrap
I think, by now, that Toyota is pretty famous...
Detroit Free Press Headline Writer Disagrees with Consumer Reports, Apparently
Article Link --> "Asian vehicles rank low in survey"Or do they? You can't accuse the media for being biased toward Toyota in this case....
10,000 Visitors!
The blog has now had 10,000 visitors since the launch in March. October is the 8th straight month of increasing visits. That's definitely...
NUMMI Tour Tale #2: The Power of Reynolds Wrap
NUMMI Tour Tale #1: Why Fix the Escalator?
The NUMMI tour guide told an interesting kaizen story as we went past the body weld area....
Toyota "Bucks Trend" by NOT Outsourcing
Auto WeekThis article eventually reaches the conclusion I jumped to early on. Of course Toyota doesn't outsource as much as the other automakers. Toyota's...
NUMMI Tour Tale #1: Why Fix the Escalator?
I really enjoyed my tour of the NUMMI plant last Friday. I'll post my summary thoughts and impressions from the tour, but I wanted...
UK Soaps ‘deter teenagers from factory work’
Guardian Unlimited Money | Work | So this is a problem in the UK? The U.S. has enough factors deterring kids from engineering and...
