This edition of Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape explores the tension between short-term optimization and long-term improvement. The selections highlight why stability must come before automation, how over-optimization can erode resilience, and why improvement depends as much on social systems…
Joining me for Episode 346 of the podcast is Mark Ryan, a Transformation Coach and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt at Franciscan Health. Mark will be one of the hosts and facilitators at our upcoming “Kaizen Live!” site visit event…
QHSE Focus, an iPad magazine, asked me to contribute a piece on Lean healthcare. They published my piece titled, “Employee & Patient Safety: The Only Moral Place to Start with Lean in Healthcare.” You can read a PDF of the…
