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: 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...
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: September 5, 2025
This edition of Ryan McCormack's Operational Excellence Mixtape explores strategy, flow, and culture in environments where improvement is harder than it looks. From how...
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: August 22, 2025
This edition of Ryan McCormack's Operational Excellence Mixtape focuses on disciplined thinking, ethical use of data, and people-centered improvement in an AI-enabled world. From...
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: August 8, 2025
This edition of Ryan McCormack's Operational Excellence Mixtape explores how organizations build improvement capability through goals, learning, and culture--not gimmicks or shortcuts. From designing...
