Mark Graban
Mark Graban is an internationally-recognized consultant, author, and professional speaker, and podcaster with experience in healthcare, manufacturing, and startups.
Mark's latest book is The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation, a recipient of the Shingo Publication Award.
He is also the author of Measures of Success: React Less, Lead Better, Improve More, Lean Hospitals and Healthcare Kaizen, and the anthology Practicing Lean, previous Shingo recipients.
Mark is also a Senior Advisor to the technology company KaiNexus.
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,...
Manufacturer Finds More Than Vacuums At Stake in Recovery
WSJ.com (requires subscription)
(link to a similar free article)
It's tough to avoid the ads for Oreck vacuum cleaners on cable news. After their corporate...
Keeping high-tech Valley jobs with Lean and Six Sigma
East Valley Tribune | Daily Arizona news for Chandler, Gilbert, Tempe, Mesa, Scottsdale
It's not often we read about manufacturing work coming back from Asia...
Toyota Computer Makes You Watch the Road
Article
Interesting concept, although I'm sure it would be a bit annoying as a driver. I can't imagine people accepting these, even if "not paying...
