SV: DOE

[Øgland, Petter <petter.ogland@skatteetaten.no>]

Alla Linetsky told an interesting story about how he used to be a management consultant, trying to convince management to use DOE.  Now that he had become a manager himself, he did not use DOE, because it's too time-consuming and doesn't yield sufficient benefits for the effort and cost expended.

I would like to ask Alla and others who have made the change from consultant to manager what they think of SPC, Pareto-analysis and SQC in general.  Does everything Deming taught look ridiculous once one sits on the other side of the table?  Is the Deming philosophy, like Six Sigma, TQM and other efforts, just a nice way for management consultants to make a living by fooling and parasiting on management by giving them useless or contraproductive advise?

Petter