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.
Great Lean Discipline Story with New Chrysler head LaSorda
New Chrysler head LaSorda sees improved earnings in 2006, plans 'smart' output - Forbes.comYou can tell LaSorda is a real lean guy from the...
Updated: NUMMI Plant Workers, Cos. Talk as Contract Deadline Passes
Bloomberg.com: U.S.: Updated 8/11: Looks like the plant has a tentative agreement.Last post before vacation... still sounds like there could be a labor stoppage...
Toyota Focusing on the Long Term, Short Term Profit Falls
Toyota's 1st-quarter profit declines 7%The WSJ article commented:"The news underscores the company's willingness to sacrifice short-term profit to maintain its torrid pace of growth....
Lean Manufacturing Doesn’t Overlook or Compromise Safety
In the article "Occupational Hazards - Keep It Lean and Safe," the author says, in part:
"In the worst-case scenario, an overzealous company may implement...
Flexibility vs. Simplicity
WSJ.com - Amid Price War, Chrysler To Revamp Manufacturing (subscription required):
Today's WSJ has an article about Chrysler's attempts to produce three different models,...
Chicago Auto Supplier Lean Example In The News
www.dailysouthtown.com/:
Here is a nice example of a Chicago-area company using lean to respond to the market, which is forcing prices downward. To...
Toyota-GM factory faces possible strike
Toyota-GM factory faces possible strike:It will be interesting to see if Toyota would ever walk away from NUMMI, even as (or because) they are...
A Lean "Plant Rat" Becomes CEO
TOM WALSH: DCX shifts into futureLaSorda's challenge: Keep up momentumChrysler's Tom LaSorda, a "plant rat" turns CEOTom LaSorda, a former GM guy who moved...
Most businesses are "Soviet" in character?
WSJ.com - Workers of Europe Innovate (subscription required)
Great article in the WSJ today about a company in France that sounds like it's doing many...
Curious Cat Blog: New Toyota CEO’s Views
Curious Cat Management Improvement - including economics, investment and more: New Toyota CEO's Views
The Curious Cat blog found a Business Week article with quotes...
Kaizen Swimming?
Runner's Web and Triathlete's Web, a Running, Track and Field and Triathlon Resource Portal
I don't know how much this swimmer has studied lean, but...
KAIZEN License Plate
Driving to work today, I saw a new Nissan Z with the Arizona license plate "KAIZEN". I couldn't see who was driving (the way...
