I've seen I don't know how many things like "six sigma" come and go. They tend to fail, because my company (and others with which I'm familiar) tends to get really big into the process crap, while losing sight of what the process is really about. Consultants sell process. Management likes to buzzword-ize, and to blindly follow process. They forget that it helps to know the business.
I would certainly hope that the terror warriors don't get so mired in process crap that they forget about the bad guys.
Where does GE stand in the global market?
What are it's earnings?
Some guy said Six Sigma doesnt have anything to do with GE's success...leadership does. Ahem...all "all" of their leaders are promoted from within the Six Sigma community that they have created. If you arent a blackbelt, you arent gonna be leading jack past lower management. That isnt some rote line of text to place on your resume. You either are a Blackbelt or you arent. And if you are...you live Six Sigma in every area. It doesnt hinder creativity. On the contrary, it encourages it...because you know that if the idea makes it through a greebelt workup at the lower level then it is probably gonna fly company wide. GE pushes it's best and brightest towards Six Sigma. The leaders come out of that clique. Tell me if Jeffrey Immelt is a Blackbelt. Tell me if the other two CEO candidates were Blackbelts. Tell me what American CEO built it into the GE system.
The bitter types can rail on it all day long but they cannot remove it from the context of GE's overwhelming success...not just at home but globally.
Ignorance is indeed bliss for a select coterie of FReepers.
LOL
It really is funny to read some of the comments on this thing.