This is the only method for eliminating the "deadwood", that works!
BTW, if this is the best that Newt can do, we're hurting if he gets the nomination...
Posted on 11/23/2011 6:52:42 PM PST by TitansAFC
In June, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich signed a pledge to adopt the Lean Six Sigma business management strategy in New Hampshire as a means to help eliminate the national debt by 2017, Politico reports. More recently, Gingrich spoke to the Heritage Foundation to promote the strategy while denouncing the new 12-member debt panel.
Additionally, Gingrich announced his plans to meet with other supporters of Lean Six Sigma to discuss ways to improve the U.S. economy.
"An intelligent Congress in a city that wanted to be intelligent would hold hearings, bring in the experts, figure out how to fundamentally change the government," he said, as quoted by Politico.
While Newt Gingrich has promoted the use of the business strategy Lean Six Sigma. the business management strategy, which discourages waste and fraud, is now gaining press coverage due to Gingrich and other politicians' praise, it has been used by business professionals across the nation for years.
Individuals who want to learn more about Lean Six Sigma have the opportunity to do so at many colleges, including Pennsylvania's Villanova University. Business professionals can earn a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certificate during a 16-week course, according to the school's website.
Six Sigma is nothing but the core concepts of industrial engineering which go way back to Taylor and Gilbreth in the early 1900's, just gussied up with a lot of gimmickry to make money for consultants.
We don’t want a more efficient Fedzilla, we want a less powerful and less big Fedzilla.
Newt doesn’t get that.
Oh he has turned down more than that!
He has ignored a LITANY of business advice on how to save money from corporations like AMEX, IBM, Apple, and Exxon-Mobil. He has not implemented a SINGLE relevant efficiency plan in his entire tenure. It’s almost unbelievable.
My hubby is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt. He just said the government can’t get their head out of their ass to do lean six sigma. He says the military is using it with success.
This is the only method for eliminating the "deadwood", that works!
BTW, if this is the best that Newt can do, we're hurting if he gets the nomination...
Unless—as a result of using Six Sigma methodology—one is willing to axe government jobs completely, this idea will fail before it gets off the ground.
We don’t want an efficiently large government; we want an efficient smaller government.
This isn’t a slam against Gingrich.
Maobama has one goal - collapse this nation.
Do you want government to be efficient at its tyranny or less powerful?
Thank you. Six Sigma is nothing new under the sun. It’s got a hardcore cult follwing to be sure, and I do mean CULT.
Read the new “Contract,” it only gets better! :-)
History major Newt Gingrich doesn’t have a clue as to what Six Sigma means.
He is just trying to latch on to some new fad that will prove as equally stupid and wasteful as Total Quality Management was 15 yeaqrs ago.
Sorry Newt, but last night you were that guy in the hangman joke where the condemned man (you, Newt) tells the hangman how to fix the trapdoor that didn’t work properly the first attempt.
Newt lives in a sheltered world of million dollar jewelry accounts and million dollar consultant contracts. He doesn’t have a clue about what the average citizen is facing with the illegal alien scourge. His constituency is the Wall Street Journal and the Chamber of Commerce and the illegal-alien-loving phalanx of Fox News pundits.
As long as there are more votes and K Street money for what is "wasteful" than there are against it, the waste and inefficiency will remain.
This isn’t any different than when the US Air Force went deep into ‘Total Quality Management’ in the 90s. As a mid-level guy in the Air Force then, it was a way for the bigwigs to pretend they were doing something important.
It is COMPETITION that makes a business leaner and meaner, not a management style.
I can just see the fishbone/ishikawa diagram of the 0bamacare Act and its agencies alone...what an eye chart. They’ll be doing the analysis for years. Better make that one an objective of JDI thinking. Repeal? Just do it!!
I was involved in setting up some of the first “Quality Circles” at a company I worked for back in the 70’s. Deming stuff. And I’ve been involved in these methods n one ofrm or another over the years. The names have changed over the but not necessarily the processes. While a useful technique, I can see the ‘paralysis by analysis’ taking over in short order when it comes to streamlining anything in Washington. They’d just form new committees to ‘study’ the problmes. And we would never get CONCENSUS.
Better to just take an axe to it. Every Cabinet, every office, every committee, find a way to cut 5%. Next year, cut another 5%. We do it in business, it’s waaaaay past time the government do the same thing.
This is so Newt. Another gimmick - like the laptops in schools that he was promoting in the 90s. Not a clue, Newt. Not a clue.
Gingrich latched onto a manufacturing improvement method thats about 8 years old and was just a remarketing of statistical process control and old Edward Deming ideas. They all work when properly applied but Lean is no damn magic bullet for anything.
This is what bugs me about Gingrich. He is reasonably smart and a very good historian but when he sticks his nose in anything having to do with science, he’s a moron. Just like his support of the whole manmade global warming farce.
The problem with pentagon spending and government in general is just simple stupid waste, waste, waste. You’ve got tens of thousands of paperpushers that don’t produce a damn thing of value - just air breathers drawing checks. It should be obvious when a full congress can’t save a trivial $1.2 trillion out of a massive debt saddled system -even when they spead it over 10 years and just have to cut the rate of increase. Cripes folks - it ain’t that hard. It takes some guts, honesty, and willingness to make some decisions and fire(repurpose) a bunch of useless government leaches.
Lean management and six sigma is just management du jour. It will point to places to improve but if you haven’t got the balls to make the changes, it’s just a huge waste of time and a BS smokescreen that will have NO results.
Good question. Companies that cannot implement some form of process management here in the states, have to move somewhere else, where some form of process management can be implemented, in order to become or remain competitive.
There are many, many people working here in the USA with a good understanding of management principles, process management, process improvement, management science, etc., etc., but very, very few of these knowledgable people are ever allowed an opportunity to excercise their knowledge. In fact, in most work environments in the USA, knowledgable people are deliberately sabotaged and destroyed so that much less qualified people can maintain their daisy chains of power in positions for which they were never minimally qualified in the first place.
The USA economy is in exactly the position today that someone predicted twenty or thirty years ago, if the competency pyramid remained unside down for the duration. It has, and we are.
In simpler words, idiots have been running the show in every corner of our society for the past few decades, and we are in our current condition because idiocy has been promoted and rewarded for that long.
If we want different results, we need to do things differently.
Will Lean Sigma Six could make government smaller and more limited?
The article is just about Six Sigma, it is not the end of Newt’s plans.
Read the new Contract, he has several good and workable ideas for shrinking the Federal Government, Budget, etc.
Again, this particular article is just about the Six Sigma implementation, it is by no means Newt’s only plan - just one of them.
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