Posted yesterday by John Moe who is currently Head of Business Consulting at Alphacourt Limited in the UK. I’ve been following his posts for a while now and would classify a number of them as “seriously brilliant.” John, I know quite a few of us Yanks will be grinning over lunch today as we read this. Adam Zak
“Have you been confronted by a Black Belt recently? Unless you are into martial arts then this has most likely happened at work when you have been hit by a Lean Six Sigma (6S) initiative (or possibly operative if you got in the way). I am using 6S here to encompass both the Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma concepts, particularly as many organisations tend to use a hybrid of the two. What started off as a way for manufacturers to actual work out how to build something that didn’t disintegrate/explode/maim unexpectedly as soon as the punter got the product home (or in the case of British Leyland before you got home), has turned into a quasi-religious movement that comes with its own zealots and sacred texts”.
More chuckles as you read the full text of John’s post here…
Sounds a little bit like “lame lean,” nicht wahr? It’s good that we don’t need to take ourselves too seriously about all this.