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.

Flextronics eyes Malaysia as alternative to China

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Reuters Recommends News Article | Reuters.com Another article on the theme of chasing cheap. If your production strategy is based on being based in...

Preventing Lean Failures — New Blog

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Click Here for the Blog: Reason #1: Lack of Top Down Management SupportClick Here for the Blog: Reason #2: Lack of ...

More Whining About Not Being Able to Pass Along Costs

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JS Online: Manufacturing outlook dips, but index is still strong:When I saw this headline (also a WSJ article today), I expected to read something...

Want to complain about Dell? Forget it

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The RegisterThis isn't really a "lean" story, but the idea of customer focus strikes me here. As a company, how do you handle things...

Toyota Runs Low on Expertise To Power Global Push

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WSJ.com - Requires SubscriptionAs Toyota grows, they are struggling with finding/keeping enough people who truly understand TPS tools and the Toyota Way.I'll try to...

‘Lean’ manufacturing tested at local (NC) company

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The Kinston Free PressHere is a nice little local story about a small (26 employees) company that started with lean (sounds like they did...

Toyota’s Chief Bets on Hybrids, Squeezing Rivals

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WSJ.com - Requires Subscription:In an article that talks about Toyota's lead (along with Honda) in hybrid vehicles, Toyota's new President references Kaizen."Mr. Watanabe said...

Why are you wasting time at work?

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Marshall Loeb's Daily Money Tip - General News - Personal FinanceFirst off, are you reading this at work? ;-)This has been in the...

Acheiving Basic Stability Before One-Piece Flow

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EMS ConsultingHere is another newsletter article from EMS Consulting and Darren Dolcemascolo, a friend of this blog.His article reminds me of my days at...

Can Infosys do a Toyota ?

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Management & Marketing:Since we were talking about "lean software" yesterday.... I'm not an expert on Toyota history so I can't validate every assumption made...

Updated: The Talent Behind ‘China Inc.’

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Free Career Journal Link -- new link for July 12This article talks about Chinese manufacturing companies not in the context of cheap...

Lean Software Development: differentiating push- and pull-based development

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Steve Hebert's Development BlogKeeping with the lean software theme, here is another in-depth post with references to other lean software websites, articles, and whitepapers....