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: September 13, 2019
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
Canadian healthcare policy limits true innovation by clinging to outdated thinking developed in times of much slower change and...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: August 30, 2019
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
The last place I want to receive care is the hospital. There are innumerable advantages to being treated in...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: August 16, 2019
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
An experienced doctor in Toronto caused harm, operated without consent, and intimidated staff for years. A disturbing but unsurprising...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: August 2, 2019
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
In 2008, I worked at a hospital when, during an Executive meeting, an Executive suggested that patients are sometimes harmed...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: Best of 2019 – Mixtape A-Side
Hi All - Summer in Manitoba requires part-time work, as the precious weeks of glorious weather need to be savoured and stored up for...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: July 5, 2019
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
Imagine a healthcare system that responds to each patient's circumstances and preferences in real-time. Real-time measurement of a patient's...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: June 21, 2019
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
Many healthcare providers are driven by a deep commitment to the mission of healthcare. Some refer to it as...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: June 7, 2019
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
Healthcare innovation is prone to continuous pilots of improvements that are already proven and a half-hearted embrace of meaningful change. Sachin Jain,...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: May 24, 2019
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
Compelling people with evidence or demanding compliance does very little to drive adoption of new practices - handing out...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: May 10, 2019
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
A group of Winnipeg physicians is opening a clinic designed to treat non-emergent patients in an effort to reduce Emergency...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: April 26, 2019
Ryan and I are co-sponsoring a workshop that I'll be presenting on "Measures of Success" in Winnipeg on May 10. Learn more.
Healthcare - Creating...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: April 12, 2019
Ryan and I are co-sponsoring a workshop that I'll be presenting on "Measures of Success" in Winnipeg on May 10. Learn more.
Healthcare - Creating...
