Innovation/Six Sigma

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Mike,

I agree with your point of view regarding SS.  Certified as a Green Belt and trained (though not certified) as a Black Belt, I am a proponent of SS philosophy and methodology.  Any argument that SS excludes change would be impossible to support.  Any point of view that segregated creative thinking from SS would be folly.

The chief value I pulled from the BW piece was the notion that there are processes that are driven by an objective to reduce variation (and SS is notable among them) . . . and processes that thrive on (at least initially) increasing variation (wild ideas, "out of the box thinking" and a variety of other phrases come to mind).

It would not be my argument that one is better than the other, nor more desirable.  I could not even support a case that "innovation" cannot be part of SS (and this takes us back to the difficulty in defining just what "innovation" is).

It is my point of view that there is a behaviorial conflict at work when trying to pursue both simultaneously--not as an organization, but as an individual or small team.

Terry