Books by Mark Graban
Articles:
- ChangeThis Manifesto, “How Toyota Can Save Your Life… At The Hospital,” March 2007.
- Society for Manufacturing Engineers Lean Yearbook 2007, “Riverside Medical Center Puts Lean in the Laboratory,” July 2007 (PDF).
- Society for Manufacturing Engineers Lean Yearbook 2008, with Lewis Lefteroff, “Lean and Process Excellence at Kingston General,” July 2008 (PDF).
- LAB Medicine Journal, with Shana Padgett, “Lean Laboratories: Competing with Methods From Toyota,” July 2007.
- Lean in Healthcare Overview, at LeanCEO.com , January 2008.
- “Training Within Healthcare, It is just as relevant in 2009 as it was in 1944,” TWI News, January 2009. (PDF)
- Journal of Hospital Medicine, “Hospitalists: Lean Leaders for Hospitals,” July/August 2010.
- FierceHealthcare.com, “How lean management helped hospitals avoid layoffs,” October 2010.
- Hospital Voice (Oregon Hospital Association), with Mike Orzen, “How lean thinking and mindsets support the Triple Aim,” February 2011.
- Global Business and Organizational Excellence, with Jim Adams, “CMCD’s lab draws on academics, automakers, and therapists to realize its own vision of excellence,” April 2011 (PDF).
- For the Record, with Rob Harding, “Lean Management: Thin Is In,“ April 2011.
- Quality Digest, with Gregory Jacobson, MD, “Putting the ‘Continuous’ Back into Health Care Improvement,” August 2011.
- Article, Hospitals & Health Networks, with Rob Harding, “Cut Costs by Reducing Redundant or Inefficient Activity,” August 2011.
- Quality Digest, “Improving Health Care Quality Through Signs or Systems?,” December 2011.
- Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry, “Hospital Delivery Robots: Solving a Problem or Pushing a New Market Opportunity?,” March 2012.
- Quality Digest, “To Better Protect Patients, Health Care Needs More ‘Lean Thinking’,” April 2012.
- The Reporter (Vacaville, CA), “Scared to Death: Worry about hospital errors, not pink slime,” May 2012.
MIT Masters Thesis:
- “An inventory planning methodology for a semiconductor manufacturer with significant sources of variability ,” June 1999.