Six Sigma, Lean, CMMI, PMP — what’s the next fad to waste time and money on?
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The latest Aero initiative is "Burning Platform", where managers and supervisors are required to define an issue in such a compelling way that it inspires employees to work massive hours without ever questioning who benefits. If you can't come up with your own burning platform, the arsonists in the ALT will do it for you, or "encourage" you to leap off their platform with the recent reorg.
Since you specifically asked about “Sick Sigma”, a memory just came to mind. During Project Mountain (transition of fuel controls from Montreal to RM, I attended a meeting with P&W Canada regarding a problem they were having with one of the transitioned controls.
The VP of Quality at P&W specifically asked, “What about this Six Sigma process HON brags about? Is it actually used or is it just an advertising slogan? How would you answer that?
Let’s not forget HOS, the boondoggle of overly complicated charts/graphs and Tier Meetings where we stand around and sing “We are Honeywell”.
The new Toyota Operating System, only with better buzzwords and less discipline.
Yep, this will save us.
Six sigma isn’t gone ...we just appointed a new set of high priests who no longer require any subject knowledge at all to magically fart cost avoidance dollars. Six sigma was just the first step in the religion of big data. Goodbye Black belts ... Hello over educated data scientists fresh out of internships at Cambridge analytics.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/blame-mr-bill-smith-tony-burns/
Honeywell is way ahead of the curve....but wait...they have been lapped over and over.
OTL, Agile and lest we forget new 'office's' to collaborate (Google even gave up on that)- such a c-appy BAD IDEA.
This may be blasphemous, but I knew six sigma was just a fad when I took the training more than a decade ago.
No surprise that it is dying, and HON is way behind in dumping it (as usual).