Lean Six Sigma - Anyone Tried This?

I've tried it. Only lost like 2 pounds. Lean my arse.

They are resume builders.

In my experience, every LEAN initiative that someone fresh from six sigma training tries to implement is needlessly burdensome and ultimately is reversed in a month or two.

Instead just declare everything efficient and call it day why don't you.

Did it 15 years ago. Seemed to me that unless you are in a heavy manufacturing situation, it's just fluff.

I was in contracts mgmt at the time and part of the assignment was to go with some consultants for the Navy to help implement lean at a very small shop. It was embarrassing to be there and have to watch the owner of the small company shut down his production while his employees sat in a conference room listening to this crap and having them do games making paper airplanes to apply learnings in speeding up the process

Lean Six Sigma can be good if you work in manufacturing but Kaizen would be more applicable to most businesses.

I have 2 hours of TD on my Leader Standard Work baw...

I earned my Green Belt.

Waste of time tbh.

ETA:

Other than as a resume builder. My company paid for it though.

I have a black belt in it. It's very valuable if used correctly. The problem is always in getting management to make sure actions are carrried to completion. Actions get bastardized to become more bureaucratic

Only some large corporations and Six Sigma-certified folks care anything about Six Sigma.

It used to carry some weight, but its time has passed.

Whether it is actually useful or not in the day to day world depends on the impelemtation but having six sigma training, black belt and kaizen projects on your resume opens doors. I have seen the people with these credentials be saved several times when it comes time for layoffs or for promotions. It can be useful in the manufacturing world but a lot of black belts can manipulate any data they want to show the results they want to achieve.