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 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.