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Originally Posted by Oerets
All I need say is Six Sigma!
He pushed that disaster changing our country forever. The use of Six Sigma caused the current state of our industries and management practices.
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What's interesting is that Six Sigma was just a gussied up, colorized version of the field known as engineering reliability (using statistical approaches to improve product quality). It really wasn't something new (just as Total Quality Management wasn't).
The trouble with such initiatives is that they're often top-down programs driven by outside consultants and generally only successful when applied on a small scale to existing projects/processes. Applying them enterprise-wide on all processes isn't at all helpful and often dispiriting. For example, they don't do a thing to help product development or innovation. Indeed, they may hinder it.