Running your Practice: Benefits of Lean Management
Discover the benefits of lean management, and learn how to implement it in your practice. Veterinarian and writer Dr. Chip Ponsford and management consultant Mark Graban discuss how lean management can help you provide greater value to your clients with more efficiency, better resource utilization, and increased employee engagement.
Mark Graban is an internationally-recognized consultant, published author, professional speaker, blogger. He builds upon a deep education in engineering and management with practical experience working with executives and frontline employees in multiple industries to synthesize and practice methods including Lean management, continuous improvement, statistical methods, and people-centered leadership approaches.
He has learned, practiced, and taught these methodologies in settings including manufacturing, healthcare, and technology startups. Working independently since 2010, Mark enjoys working with organizations that are looking for better ways to improve, with leaders who are willing to lead that charge.
Mark also consults part time as a Senior Advisor for healthcare clients with the firm Value Capture. He is also a Senior Advisor to the technology and software company KaiNexus.
Dr. Ponsford (TAMU ‘80) owned a small animal hospital in El Paso for 27 years. He spent five years with a national corporate practice as Chief of Staff and was a top 20 producer. For several years, Dr. Ponsford has studied the Toyota System (Lean) and how it might be applied to veterinary medicine. He (and Mark Graban) has written articles on Lean and spoke at the 2016 TVMA Convention. Dr. Ponsford has started the only blog dedicated to Lean in veterinary medicine at www.leanvets.com. He currently lives and works in the Dallas area.
