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.
Toyota Training for New Plant
MySA.com: BusinessNotice how Toyota is training their new Group Leaders (2nd level manufacturing managers). They are going to the Indiana plant and learning the...
GM Oshawa says "Beat Toyota"
The Globe and Mail: In the boardroom at the General Motors Oshawa plant is a baseball bat. Two words are carved on it: Beat...
"Motivational" Poster
InspirationThe very funny guys at Despair Inc. have some new posters out, check it out.Please check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org
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Womack Advocates Lean Consumption
IndustryWeek : Womack Advocates Lean Consumption:
Jim Womack continues the speaking tour to promote the new book:
"'Lean consumption involves solving customers' problems completely, not...
"Stop Rising Healthcare Costs Using Toyota Lean Production Methods"
ASQA new book discusses the applications of lean manufacturing to healthcare.Please check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org
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Everybody wants it, Toyota’s got it
The Globe and Mail:From the article:"It's not that Toyota hasn't tried to help the process. Second only to its export of cars is the...
"Lean Solutions" Book Available from LEI
Lean Enterprise Institute - Lean Manufacturing - Lean Service - Lean ConsumptionBefore it's available at Amazon, the new book from Jim Womack and Dan...
Web Conference with Jim Womack
IndustryWeek : Breakthrough Performance Improvement: Lessons from the Top-Performing Manufacturers in AmericaIndustry Week is doing a web conference October 19, featuring Jim Womack. They...
The Blame Game
WSJ.com - Moving On: (requires paid subscription)
The topic of "blaming" comes up in today's Wall St. Journal and this week's Dilbert strips. Blame...
New Balance Shoes, Lean and American Made
Lean Manufacturing Blog: New Balance Shoes Uses LeanI've highlighted New Balance before (see the link above for any article from April). I just...
Lean Healthcare Article in Harvard Business Review
Fixing Healthcare From The Inside, Today
Available through HBS... this is written by Steven J. Spear, a former Harvard professor who has written about Toyota...
Workers Trigger Outage By Connecting Wrong Wires
NBC 4 - News - DWP: Workers Trigger Outage By Connecting Wrong Wires
A few thoughts come to mind reading about this. First off,...
