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"And as with all fashions, once Six Sigma was picked up by the masses, fashionable companies lost interest and moved on to the next big thing. “These things hav
by diabeetusman 7y ago
"And as with all fashions, once Six Sigma was picked up by the masses, fashionable companies lost interest and moved on to the next big thing. “These things have a life cycle: They get popular and then people start looking for something else,” says Art Swersey, a professor emeritus of operations research at the Yale School of Management. “These things run their course, and it has run its course.”"
- ttraub 7y agoSo says a friend of mine who has written two books on Six Sigma and for a few years was consulting full time in QC. He told me: "At its core, Six Sigma is a set of very old, well established tools encased in a slick marketing shell. There is nothing revolutionary. Inevitably, Six Sigma fades away and something new will take its place, using the same old tools."