Lean Blog Interviews, by Mark Graban
Episode #138 is a discussion with Al Norval from Lean Pathways, talking about his new publication titled “The Lean Manifesto: Back to basics – how a Lean business system creates value by engaging everyone in improvement.” It’s a free six-page document an…
Episode #137 is a chat with Jerry Bussell, the founder of the Jacksonville Lean Consortium. Jerry is one of the featured speakers at the upcoming Lean Transformation Summit from the Lean Enterprise Institute – to learn more, visit http://www.lean.org. To…
Our guest for episode #136 is Paul Akers, President of FastCap and author of the book “2 Second Lean.” Here, we are talking about the new book and how small improvements that save 2 seconds in your daily work can contribute to an engaging and fun “Lean C…
Our guest for episode #135 is Dan Markovitz, author of the new book A Factory of One: Applying Lean Principles to Banish Waste and Improve Your Personal Performance. If your New Year’s resolutions include improving your own personal productivity, Dan is …
Episode #134 is a different topic than usual. Instead of strictly talking Lean, today’s discussion is about broader issues of healthcare quality and our United States military. Joining me are Daniel Sullivan, President and General Manager of the The Serg…
Episode #133 is hosted by Ron Pereira, from Gemba Academy, as he leads me through additional Q&A as a follow up to our recent webinar on my upcoming book Healthcare Kaizen and some of the concepts from the book on the theme of “Putting the Continuous Bac…
A returning guest for episode #132, we are joined today by author and professor Bob Emiliani. Today, we are chatting about some videos he recently posted to his website… 10 year old videos that document executives from Virginia Mason Medical Center, no…
My guest for episode #131 is Paul Borawski, the CEO of ASQ, the American Society for Quality. Today, we are talking about ASQ, their recent National Quality Month events (November), and other topics including: • Their “YouQ” video contest (vote on the su…
My guest for episode #130 is Greg Howell, co-founder and managing director of the Lean Construction Institute (LCI), a non-profit organization devoted to production management research in design and construction. Howell brings 35 years of construction in…
My guest for episode #129 is Chris Cooper, a vice president with Simpler Consulting. We’re talking about his new book “The Little Book of Lean,” which can be purchased via their website. We discuss his career in Lean and the background of his book, which…
