Ryan McCormack
Ryan is an operational excellence professional with over 18 years experience practicing continuous improvement in healthcare, insurance, food manufacturing, and aerospace. He is an avid student of the application of Lean principles in work and life to create measurably better value.
Operational Excellence Mixtape: March 27, 2020
Insights about improvement, innovation, and leadership...
Dear Readers,
Covid-19 has disrupted the world. We have been thrust into a situation where we are required to rapidly...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: March 13, 2020
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
Running controlled experiments for evaluating interventions in healthcare is usually infeasible - the presentation of patients can be random...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: February 28, 2020
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
Developing a culture of patient safety requires the ability to raise risks without fear of reprisal. This post from leanblog.org...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: February 14, 2020
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
"We have a good people in a bad system". Here's an excellent interview with Dr. Marty Makary, author of "The...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: January 31, 2020
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
It's been more than 10 years since Atul Gawande wrote The Checklist Manifesto, showing the world that a simple...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: January 17, 2020
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
Sometimes you just need to get a team together and improve. Here's a good example of use of A3 thinking to...
Best of 2019 — Operational Excellence Mixtape Greatest Hits
Here are the most clicked articles of the last half of 2019 mixtapes:
Many of you were interested in links with interesting questions about operational excellence:
How...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: December 20, 2019
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
It's been 20 years since To Err is Human, the seminal report from the Institute of Medicine, was released, estimating,...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: December 6, 2019
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
Does Lean "work" in hospitals in the US? Sort of, according to the Journal of Healthcare Management. There is evidence...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: November 22, 2019
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
Healthcare improvement is often done through QI projects in an "artisan" fashion. To improve healthcare improvement, combat bias and us...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: November 8, 2019
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
"Imagine walking into a restaurant and being seated. Sometime after your meal, you receive the check and find an...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: October 25, 2019
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
If you set a target without providing a clear path on how you want it achieved, and then punish staff when they fail...
