Six Sigma Too "Dilbert" For The Buffalo News
The Buffalo News editorial board emphasizes its sincere desire for reform in County Hall, but can't resist getting in a few sneers at Chris Collins's plans to implement Six Sigma.
But what Erie County taxpayers can’t afford is a lot of Dilbert- speak that will cost money, take employees and managers away from their regular jobs to attend training sessions and, in the end, wash up on the same shoals of inertia and patronage where ideas good and bad are often wrecked. There is reason to fear that shipwreck: Collins is trying to impose a private-sector model on a public-sector system, and a number of the municipal union workers who will have to buy into that system, in order for it to be fully successful, worry that the huge array of state and federal regulations imposed on the county will sap Six Sigma’s strength. Erie County would be the first such public-sector system to attempt that, making it a kind of pilot program.
"Dilbert-speak"?
The News absolutely swooned when Eliot Spitzer bulldozed his way into office on vague promises of reform; but when Chris Collins actually implements the specific reform he promised, well, the News is intrigued, um, not so much. The editorial board, while generally sensible on local and state financial matters, still can't help but betray its fondness for old-style, big-government reform that never seems to reform anything.
Proven, free-enterprise methods are just so, well, risky. And so it goes.
posted by Craig @ 6:38 PM
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