Getting Real with Lean Six Sigma

Posted by: meikah | 28 December 2006 | 12:29 am

Lean Six Sigma may have been well received by other companies, but like all other quality strategies, it is not as successful with others.

The Scratching Post has an interesting real-life take on Lean Six Sigma: Lean Six Sigma is a Fraud for Engineering Consultancies.

K T Cat shares:

Where I work, we use Lean Six Sigma. LSS is a formal method for tracing work flows and processes in order to find inefficiencies. It’s a total fraud for our organization. We do not measure the cost of implementation and overstate our results to upper management so that it looks like a success. Because our managers have been forced to use it, there is no effort to find the true value of LSS and our middle managers must report only good news. In short, LSS encourages organizational corruption. Continue reading…

Based on the entry, I see the following reasons why Lean Six Sigma failed in K T Cat’s company.

• Managers didn’t see the value of the strategy. The question, “What’s in it for us?” was not addressed.
• Communication is padded, emphasizing only the good news.
• The structure of the workforce is not prepared to accommodate Lean Six Sigma trainings or project deployments.

If these concerns are addressed, I’m sure Lean Six Sigma will work.

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