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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

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Dear Readers, Covid-19 has disrupted the world. We have been thrust into a situation where we…

Operational Excellence Mixtape: March 13, 2020

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Running controlled experiments for evaluating interventions…

Operational Excellence Mixtape: February 28, 2020

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Developing a culture of patient safety requires the ability…

Operational Excellence Mixtape: February 14, 2020

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients "We have a good people in a bad system". Here's an …

Operational Excellence Mixtape: January 31, 2020

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients It's been more than 10 years since Atul Gawande wrote The…

Operational Excellence Mixtape: January 17, 2020

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Sometimes you just need to get a team together and improve.…

Best of 2019 — Operational Excellence Mixtape Greatest Hits

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Here are the most clicked articles of the last half of 2019 mixtapes: Many of you were interested in…

Operational Excellence Mixtape: December 20, 2019

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients It's been 20 years since To Err is Human, the seminal…

Operational Excellence Mixtape: December 6, 2019

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Does Lean "work" in hospitals in the US? Sort of,…

Operational Excellence Mixtape: November 22, 2019

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Healthcare improvement is often done through QI projects in…

Operational Excellence Mixtape: November 8, 2019

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients "Imagine walking into a restaurant and being seated.…

Operational Excellence Mixtape: October 25, 2019

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients If you set a target without providing a clear path on how …

Operational Excellence Mixtape: October 11, 2019

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Transformation and quality improvement is rarely sustained…

Operational Excellence Mixtape: September 27, 2019

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Globally, at least 5 patients die every minute due to unsafe…

Operational Excellence Mixtape: September 13, 2019

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Canadian healthcare policy limits true innovation by…

Operational Excellence Mixtape: August 30, 2019

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients The last place I want to receive care is the hospital. …

Operational Excellence Mixtape: August 16, 2019

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients An experienced doctor in Toronto caused harm, operated…

Operational Excellence Mixtape: August 2, 2019

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients In 2008, I worked at a hospital when, during an Executive…

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