Organizations are entities with an endeavor to grow and grow consistently. In order to achieve the goals; organizations need to undertake improvement initiatives. The million dollar question is - which improvement initiative suits the best? Typically the 'flavour of the industry' gets rolled into being the philosophy for organizations improvement initiative. So if it is Lean as the flavour of the industry, then organizations also choose to go the Lean way, if it is Six Sigma then one chooses Six sigma & if it is BPR then one chooses BPR. The KEY to the choice of an improvement initiatives not being part of the decision of the choice of the initiative leads to a suboptimal outcome of the improvement initiative . In my opinion one has broadly three approaches; a. The Control approach - The management wishes to bring the processes under acceptable limits of variation. So 'controlling' the variables impacting the outcome is the over-riding philosophy. T...