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.
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: March 6, 2026
Thanks, as always, to Ryan McCormack for this. He always shares so much good reading, listening, and viewing here! Subscribe to get these directly...
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: February 20, 2026
This week's Operational Excellence Mixtape tackles the challenge of sustaining improvement amidst turbulence and change fatigue. We explore why values must act as your...
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: February 6, 2025
This mixtape-style post curates ideas and examples about making work better through systems, leadership, and culture. It challenges self-improvement thinking that assumes people need...
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: January 23, 2026
News, articles, books, podcasts, and videos about how to make the workplace better.
This Operational Excellence Mixtape underscores a simple but often-missed point: new technologies...
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: January 9, 2026
Summary: Today's "mixtape" post brings together timely ideas on continuous improvement, leadership, productivity, and workplace culture. From avoiding "blank slate" metrics and rethinking PDCA/PDSA...
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: December 12, 2025
This edition of Ryan McCormack's Operational Excellence Mixtape explores how technology, leadership, and culture intersect in continuous improvement. Topics range from AI-driven quality engineering...
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: November 28, 2025
This edition of Ryan McCormack's Operational Excellence Mixtape highlights practical thinking on value creation, continuous improvement, and leadership in an AI-influenced world. From empowering...
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: November 14, 2025
This edition of Ryan McCormack's Operational Excellence Mixtape focuses on what real, sustainable improvement actually requires: leadership commitment, respect for people, and disciplined learning...
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: October 31, 2025
This edition of Ryan McCormack's Operational Excellence Mixtape highlights how Lean thinking continues to deliver real results when it's treated as a management system,...
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: October 17, 2025
This edition of Ryan McCormack's Operational Excellence Mixtape emphasizes that real improvement depends more on mindset, leadership, and system design than on tools alone....
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: October 3, 2025
This edition of Ryan McCormack's Operational Excellence Mixtape examines why true operational excellence remains elusive despite decades of tools, frameworks, and good intentions. From...
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: September 19, 2025
This edition of Ryan McCormack's Operational Excellence Mixtape explores productivity, leadership, and change through a systems lens. From Canada's long-standing productivity challenge and lessons...
