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.
Podcast #366 — Harry Moser on the COVID-19 Supply Chain Wake-Up...
My guest for Episode #366 is Harry Moser, founder of the Reshoring Initiative. We talk about "reshoring," in general, and why that's such an...
Song Parody: If I Had a Million Kaizens
I was cleaning out my hard drive (I hesitate to call that "5S-ing")... moving some files to an external disk and deleting others.
I stumbled...
What Bad Managers, Good Managers, and Great Managers Do
This is an article that I originally published on LinkedIn back in 2014. It was also picked up and re-published by Entrepeneur.com. Other than...
Podcast #365 — Dan Markovitz on His Book “The Conclusion Trap”
Joining me again for Episode #365 is Dan Markovitz, now a five-time guest (but he doesn't get a special jacket like SNL). You can...
Podcast #364 — Mitch Cahn on Lean and Pivoting to Shields...
Joining me for Episode #364 is a returning guest, Mitch Cahn, the president of Unionwear, a Newark-based company. Back in Episode #234, we talked...
Going Down — When a Solution to One Problem Seems to...
My wife and I have been home in an Orlando condo building for the past month. In efforts to avoid the coronavirus (and to...
Busting Myths about Just in Time: The Implications for Healthcare Supply...
Thanks to Professor Peter Hines and the Enterprise Excellence Network for inviting me to present this webinar. Mine was the first in a series...
Thoughts From Lean Thinkers on Coping with the Coronavirus Crisis
Thanks to Elisabeth and the team at GoLeanSixSigma.com for inviting me to contribute some thoughts in this piece:
How Lean Six Sigma Can Help Fight...
Podcast #363 — Crystal Y. Davis on the Business Impact of...
For Episode #363, I'm joined by Crystal Davis as we discuss:
What are you seeing in terms of how Covid19 is disrupting businesses?
How...
What my Book “Lean Hospitals” Says About Inventory Planning
This is from the 3rd edition of my book Lean Hospitals. I've copied and pasted from the book with no additional edits, although I'll bold...
Improvements in Walking and Hospital Covid-19 Incident Response Teams
In this post, I'd like to share two posts from the KaiNexus Blog.
Walking More Safely
I wrote this post for KaiNexus based on my...
Episode #15 of “Lean Whiskey”: Shelter-in-Place & Drink Local Live Episode
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In a special live-to-YouTube Episode 15 of Lean Whiskey, Mark Graban and Jamie Flinchbaugh begin their week by catching up, drinking whiskey, and talking...
