Mark Graban
Recent Posts
How a Lean Adoption Strategy for Public Schools Applies to Everyone
February 11, 2020I’m excited to be giving a preview of a webinar that Harry Kenworthy is going to be presenting for us on February 19th.
The title of that...
What the KaiNexus Team Saw and Heard Visiting a Toyota Plant
February 11, 2020As I wrote about last month, the entire KaiNexus team was excited to have the chance to visit and tour the Toyota truck factory in San...
Webinar Preview: How to Use A3 Thinking in Everyday Life
March 8, 2018What's commonly known as "A3" is a very powerful methodology for problem solving, the planning of projects, or the articulation of...
What the KaiNexus Team Expects to See When We Visit Toyota
January 16, 2018Later this week, the entire KaiNexus team is meeting in Austin for our bi-annual team meeting (we have team members in the Dallas area and...
What to do After a Kaizen Event so Improvement Doesn’t End
December 13, 2017I think we’ve all heard stories about “backsliding” or a lack of sustainment after formal Kaizen Events. When we plan and conduct a Kaizen...
Webinar Preview: The 4 Components of an Employee-Led Lean Initiative
December 6, 2017We’ve had a great year full of interesting webinars this year and the same is true for our final presenters of the year. They are Benny...
Webinar Preview: Collaboration, Leadership, A-Ha Moments, and Lean
May 11, 2018I’m very pleased that we’ll be hosting a great webinar on November 29th titled “When Leaders Collaborate: Finding the A-Ha Moments that...
Webinar Preview: Cascading Strategy Through Hoshin Kanri
November 9, 2017On November 14th, we are excited to be hosting a webinar on Hoshin Kanri (aka Strategy Deployment) that will be presented by Craig...
If You’re Going to Set a Goal, Make it Big, Hairy, and Audacious
August 11, 2017Recently, I read this article by Quint Studer: “Set 'Big Hairy Audacious Goals'.” A “big hairy audacious goal,” as the author Jim Collins...

