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.
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.
Disappointed that Newt gets caught up in this--among all the problems of government, efficiency is the least of our worries. The leanest, meanest, most efficient agency in government can be made a lot cheaper by shutting it down altogether.