Author Archive: Mark Graban
Mark Graban is a Senior Fellow with the Lean Enterprise Institute and the author of the book Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction (Productivity Press), winner of a 2009 Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award. He is the founder and lead contributor of LeanBlog.org, started in January 2005. Mark is an experienced consultant and change agent, with a background in Industrial and Mechanical Engineering, with an MBA from MIT Sloan Leaders for Global Operations Program (previously known as Leaders for Manufacturing). Mark has worked in automotive (General Motors), the PC industry (Dell) , and industrial products (Honeywell). At Honeywell, Mark was certified as a “Lean Expert” (Lean Black Belt). Since August 2005, Mark has worked in the “lean healthcare” world, where he coached lean teams at client sites in North America and the United Kingdom, including medical laboratories and hospitals.
Lean Healthcare
Hospitals around the world are successfully implementing Lean methods for the benefit of patients, employees, physicians, and the hospital organizations. It is possible, through Lean and the Toyota Production System, to simultaneously provide better care, better quality, and lower costs. Hospitals worldwide face a wide range of problems and pressures that have inspired them to [...]
