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.
LEAN Affiliates Library – The Gemba Walk
Click for ArticleNot much "lean stuff" in the news today, so I'll point out another source of good lean articles, including this Norman Bodek...
The father of Kaizen speaks!
Masaaki Imai interview!Masaaki Imai (the author of the book "Kaizen") comments on the need to convert from batch to JIT and China 'productivity' among...
Kanban Systems- How To Design & Implement
Strategos, Inc. -- Quarterman LeeI have been receiving the excellent email newsletter from Quarterman Lee for a while now, always enlightening about lean manufacturing...
Park Nicollet: National Leader in Applying ‘Lean Production’ to Health Care
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Another interesting example of "lean health care". I've had a chance to take a tour with the lean process improvement team at...
Real Example of Jim Womack’s "Lean Auto Service"
Click for ArticleJust a short while after Jim Womack's "Lean Consumption" article came out, here's a real life example of Toyota doing lean auto...
Textile Industry Seeking Job Protection
Newsday.com This article claims that in "the past three months, 14 textile plants in five states -- North and South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Indiana and...
Kaizen Your Life?
DallasNews.com This reminds me of a classmate who used to joke about the need to "PDCA your life". This article actually uses the...
Toyota’s Fujio Cho: Act. Improve. Repeat.
Business 2.0 - Magazine Article
An article from January worth repeating... an interview with Toyota's CEO. The company was named "Smartest Company of 2004" by...
Help Wanted: China Finds Itself With a Labor Shortage
The New York Times (registration required)
Chinese factories no longer have to hire security guards to keep the job applicants away? This article says...
Streamlined Plane Making
WSJ.com (registration required) Not really "new" news, but an article that discusses Boeing and Airbus "copying" Toyota. Interesting quote:"We always thought airplanes...
New Book Reveals Harsh Working Conditions in Chinese Factories
Press ReleaseMore reasons to get our factories lean in the U.S. Sure, labor is cheap in China, but do we really want to...
Steelcase to close some plants, cut 600 employees
Detroit Free Press
The article doesn't say directly that Steelcase is cutting jobs "because of" lean manufacturing, but it seems hard not to draw that...
