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Mark Graban

Mark Graban is a Senior Advisor at KaiNexus. Mark graduated from Northwestern University in 1995 with a BS in Industrial Engineering and later earned an MS in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is author of two Shingo Research Award-winning books, and has worked as a consultant to healthcare organizations throughout North America and Europe, teaching and implementing kaizen and other Lean management practices. He was previously a Senior Fellow with the Lean Enterprise Institute and the Healthcare Value Network and continues as an LEI faculty member. Mark is also the founder of the popular LeanBlog.org and its podcast series.
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Recent Posts

How to Evaluate the Success of a Continuous Improvement Department

February 11, 2020

We love answering questions in our "Ask Us Anything" video series, but sometimes we get questions that are best answered in a blog post.

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How a Lean Adoption Strategy for Public Schools Applies to Everyone

August 28, 2026

I’m excited to be giving a preview of a webinar that Harry Kenworthy is going to be presenting for us on February 19th.

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What the KaiNexus Team Saw and Heard Visiting a Toyota Plant

February 11, 2020

As 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...

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What the KaiNexus Team Expects to See When We Visit Toyota

January 16, 2018

Later 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...

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What to do After a Kaizen Event so Improvement Doesn’t End

March 26, 2026

I think we’ve all heard stories about “backsliding” or a lack of sustainment after formal Kaizen Events. When we plan and conduct a Kaizen...

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If You’re Going to Set a Goal, Make it Big, Hairy, and Audacious

August 11, 2017

Recently, I read this article by Quint Studer: “Set 'Big Hairy Audacious Goals'.” A “big hairy audacious goal,” as the author Jim Collins...

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CI is Practiced at US News & World Report Best Hospitals

August 29, 2026

Earlier this year, the magazine U.S. News & World Report announced their “best hospitals” list for 2016-2017. It’s a regular feature, which...

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How We Use Kaizen and our Improvement Software to Get Better

August 29, 2026

If you’ve been a subscriber to our KaiNexus Continuous Improvement Podcast, you might have noticed a small detail that changed (if you’re...

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