Speaking as a laid off Black Belt, I benefited personally both from the experience and all the things I learned while in the program. I did see some good projects result in improvements, but as others have said, often management knew the outcome they wanted to see, and the BB was forced to shoehorn the LSS process into the project and was really a project manager, not enabled as a creative problem solver. Or, as someone else pointed out, the solution would not get funded. Not that there's anything at all wrong with being a project manager, just that it would have been more honest and produced quicker results if the BB had been given direction from the start as a project manager with an outcome already defined, not a nebulous "go find a solution".
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Blackbelt? More like C-apbelt. We would spend two years on a project, weekly meetings, tons of work & in the end the Management would reject the recommendations & not fund.
I am glad they finally got rid of it. Waste of time!!
Black belt projects kept a lot of over paid management types off the layoff list ...
Busy work to supposedly increase supply side efficiencies, reduce thru put times, inventory and operating costs...
Resulted In brainless outsourcing and the layoff of good workers.....
We just got an email yesterday about that goofy CEO club. You couldn't pay me to go on that trip! Although the idea of seeing JohnV in a bananahammock... ugh...
It was cancelled years ago. What ever happened to the CEO Club that John V said we would hear more about? Why do we still have an EPMO function? Why so many attorneys saved from lay-off?