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.
Overproduction of Milk Supported by Taxpayers
Bovine Growth Hormone:One of the seven /eight forms of waste (per Toyota) is Overproduction. It's frustrating to me that the U.S. government supports overproduction...
Economist says China not eating Mexico’s lunch
Brownsville HeraldIt's interesting to see and think about the chase for low-cost labor... conventional wisdom is that manufacturers have chased cheap labor to Mexico,...
Toyota Assembly Line Inspires Improvements at Hospital
Washington Post (via MSNBC):Another example of the waste-filled health care system adopting TPS methods and approaches:"In adopting the Toyota mind-set, Kaplan said, the 350-bed...
Will Dell, GE and Wal-Mart Replace Toyota as the Standard of...
Evolving Excellence: (Superfactory Blog)Thought provoking post from the Superfactory blog. The blogger asks the question "Has Toyota become an "old" benchmark for modern-day...
Limits on imports save jobs overseas
USATODAY.com
We'll chalk this one up in the "unintended consequences" category. This shows how tough it can be for governments to restrict trade.
The...
Quest for Best Seller Means Lots of Returned Books
Article: Wall St. Journal via Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Wow, here's a messed up Value Stream.
Book publishers end up taking back and destroying (or heavily...
Toyota Has Most Efficient Plant in N.A., Harbour Report Says
Toyota Has Most Efficient Plant in N.A., Harbour Report Says:Click "comments" to see my thoughts and possibly add your own.""'Toyota's labor productivity lead equates...
Companies Use Lean to Offset Cost Increases
IndustryWeek : Under Pressure:This ties directly to the Toyota article from the other day and the concept of Profit = Price - Cost. The...
The Lean Journey at Celestica
My-ESM - The Lean Journey:It's nice to see lean being driven from the CEO level at this former IBM business unit."What Celestica found was...
Evans On The Economy — Can GM Survive?
IndustryWeek
This article doesn't focus on lean, really, but it's hard to ignore such a major company like GM.Please check out my main blog...
Icing on the cake at Victoria Foods
Icing on the cake at Victoria Foods:A new industry for lean? Here is an article about a British food company using lean to...
New Business Novel Brings Key Lean Thinking Tools to Life
Press Release from Lean Enterprise InstituteI would be interested in reading this, particularly to see how it compares to another recent lean "business novel"...
