Well as you stated, you work for GE Financial Assurance.
I am certain that is an important corporate function,
and likely more complex than others may envision.
Yet, it would be my impression that the processes, methods, procedures being addressed (complex as they may be) are primarily of the "paper pushing variety".
Please correct me if my assumption is wrong, but I say that in contrast to attempting to implement the same techniques on the manufacturing shop floor where attempting to achieve a statistical quality level of less than 3.4 ppm can be horrificly expensive in terms of tooling and capital equipment improvements, depending on the nature of the component being manufactured, design tolerances, etc. etc. etc.
To an extent, it can be the same horrible internal political game that is played with hitting certain budgetary goals that "the boss" focuses on. When the emphasis is on Six-Sigma, all the wheels start cranking to show as much six-sigma "success" in the reports, whether the actual activities necessary to achieve them make sense or not. What's the old addage? "Figures lie & liars figure"???