[Lonergan_l] Six Sigma and rising to the occasion

[Jaray...@aol.com]

David,

You speak of the quality contol methodology, Six Sigma--and its
limitations. Six Sigma uses a "histogram" DMAIC (define, measure, analyze,
improve, control). It often organizes data into graphs or charts to more easiy
understand what the data is saying about the process.

Your overall remarks stand, but let us recall that if there is a rough
parallelism between DMAIC and the GEM strategy that extends into FS, GEM
turns on conversions whereas DMAIC does not turn on conversion but on
adaptations of sorts. This is one of the catches in "quality control" that, as you
say, is subject to fail in the long term in business organizations.

The "GEM world" may be subject to some of the limitations you
outline--unless we stress how GEM differs from DMAIC (Six Sigma) in scope and in
depth of analyses and breadth of required commitments on our part.

Phil is wrestling w. such problematics in his SGEME initiative.

Let us recall the history of the world religions. Buddha, Jesus,
Mohammed faced various initial difficultries. The religions they found have been
see-saw affairs. In our day, Vatican II and the World Religions encounters
have given rise to various dynamics. GEM students are called to respond to
such.

The sustainabily issue you raise has to be evaluated, it seems to me,
from a larger perspective when it addresses world issues and that of a
firm--although some of the same dynamics may apply. Democracy was born on the
heels of tyranny and much tyranny remains

We should hardly be in an ivory tower. Are Muslim terrorists in an
"ivory tower" of their own translated into wantom violence? Too big of a
question to answer here, but Christianity and the GEM it inspired are holding up
(of course needing interfaith encounters in our fragile world) possiblities
for us to IMPLEMENT GEM, the conversions and SGEME--as well as other GEM
initiatives. I hope the GEM world can rise to the occasion,

John



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