[MtnGoat]

Okay so I asked if anyone that knows and has a Lean Six Sigma Green or Black Belt certificate and what do you think about it being used to analysis.

Well this is my take on it. YES IT CAN and really should be something used. I feel a Six Sigma Green Belt certification is enough. I started think this way after doing a class that used the Book Structured Analytic Techniques by Heuer and Pherson.

So you have Structured Analysis and everything else under the sun names (Unstructured Analysis) Techniques or whatever. I feel that within in an analytical team looking at a “GAP” or filling a Request for Support. We all use generic analytic tools for sorting and organizing data in a manner that facilitates comparison and analysis, analyze the relationship among any two datasets of variables or the way people will look at the data differently.

Look at Network Analysis; used in say counterterrorism, counternarcotic, counter proliferation, transnational organizations by law enforcement and military to analysis the date and/or to identify the people, places, events and things.

I feel that Lean Six Sigma gives an analysis team a better way of looking at the data overall. Giving them and better cross-impact on how to deal with the complex problems. But I feel that an Analytical Team needs to understand what Lean Six Sigma is and how is ties into analytical program when “Everything else if related to everything else.”

For the ones that know what Lean Six Sigma is and how it pretends to improving work flows and productive will understand this better. Once you identify the problem and this is what you’re looking to improve. This is our “Gaps” for us analysis. Just as with analysis we have data, so do you in Lean Six Sigma. So looking at that data, analyzing it for us. You will be generating and testing hypotheses in a core function of basic intelligence analysis. This is the BLUF of what you are in a Lean Six Sigma team. The Lean Six Sigma team here in that RFS or Intel Fusion cell team tasked with the mission to support whomever.

So as you analysis the data and diagnostic reasoning of what you have for data to find the gap. The basics of Lean Six Sigma applies to testing to the evaluation of a new development or for analysis. Answering your GAPS from your data. The techniques used in Lean Six Sigma team can be used in the same matter to look at data, guiding a Fusion Team not to make snap intuitive judgment when analyzing the meaning of the data in their area of interest, or the significance or reliability of a new intelligence report or data.


As we have Intel methodology, that IMO no one really uses or follows, Lean Six Sigma will help Fusion team leaders, NCOs, Officers and contractors in controlling how to guide and “Look” at the data.

IMO Sending a 18F or and 35F NCO to obtain their Lean Six Sigma Green or Black Belt certificates will help in analyzing data to fill those GAPS.