Tag: Apple
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...
Apple and I Made a Similar Mistake: 24 or 2024?
The other day, I was presenting at a company about "Psychological Safety as a Pre-Condition for Continuous Improvement." It was a hybrid event and...
The Simple, Cheap Improvement I Made to My iPhone MagSafe Charger
When I first learned about "wireless" charging for devices like my iPhone, I was a skeptic.
"How hard is it to connect a charging cable?,"...
Am I Getting Over My Resistance to the Newer iPhones? Am...
It's a bit of a Throwback Thursday... in October of 2017, I wrote this post about my, ahem, "resistance to change" when it came...
Am I “Resistant to Change” When it Comes to iPhones?
When I was recently considering switching from an iPhone 6S to a newer iPhone 8 Plus (or an iPhone X), I wrote this post...
This Apple Store Sign Seems to be a Sign of Apple’s...
Why the sign on the Apple Store door reminded me of their poor problem solving and inelegant solutions to my broken MacBook Pro. This might be my last blog post for the week unless that gets sorted out (or if I get better at doing work like this on my iPad). It might be my last Mac. How the mighty have fallen?
Back from Vacation – Digital Detox Tips & Webinar Tomorrow on...
I'm back from two weeks of vacation and I'm going to ease back into social media and the blog, which includes a free webinar...
Steve Jobs on Continuous Improvement: Rare 1990 Video Shows Early Lean...
tl;dr: This post features a rare 1990 video of Steve Jobs describing continuous improvement in ways that closely echo Lean and Kaizen principles. He...
Guest Post: The Ultimate Lean Thinker’s Phone – the iPhone “5S”
Hi, this is Dr. Les Muda, the world's first (and only) Lean healthcare comedian, taking over Mark's blog today for a guest post about...
Apple Expected 10% Bad iPhones from Foxconn?
I'd read before that Apple's supplier (Foxconn) was having trouble assembling iPhone 5s to Apple's standards... but this article contains some shocking stats: "Apple...
Watching the Steve Jobs “Lost Interview,” Part 2
As I started writing about yesterday in Part 1, I recently viewed a lost video of Steve Jobs being interviewed in 1995. See this...
Watching the Steve Jobs “Lost Interview,” Part 1
Recently, I stumbled across something that's been out for about a year, a lost video of Steve Jobs being interviewed in 1995. See this...














