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Operational Excellence, Systemic Criticisms, and the Accumulation of Research Debris

📘 Description:
The divide between academic research and management practice has created what scholars now call Research Debris (RD) — unused, untranslated, or irrelevant academic knowledge. This video explores how Operational Excellence (OE) research, encompassing Lean, Six Sigma, and Lean Six Sigma (LSS), contributes to this growing debris.

Despite decades of focus on efficiency, quality improvement, and cost reduction, OE research faces systemic criticisms: it prioritizes operational and financial performance while neglecting social and environmental sustainability. This imbalance leads to knowledge silos, methodological rigidity, and a failure to drive systemic business transformation.

The paper discussed in this video argues that these limitations—combined with paradoxical tensions between efficiency and innovation, Lean and Circular Economy (CE), and rigour versus relevance—transform valuable research into intellectual waste.

By integrating Research Debris Theory with critiques of Operational Excellence, the study highlights why OE research often remains academically rigorous but practically inert. It proposes a roadmap to reclaim relevance through co-creative research models, systemic sustainability pathways, and balanced rigour–relevance approaches.

🔍 Key Topics Covered:

The concept and causes of Research Debris (RD)

Systemic criticisms of Operational Excellence (OE)

The limitations of Lean, Six Sigma, and LSS in addressing sustainability

The paradox between efficiency and systemic transformation

How OE research contributes to knowledge silos

A roadmap for bridging rigour and relevance in management research

💡 Keywords (SEO):
Operational Excellence, Lean Six Sigma, Research Debris, Academic-Practice Divide, Systemic Criticisms, Sustainability in Operations, Circular Economy, Knowledge Silos, Management Research, Rigour vs Relevance, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma Critique, Business Transformation, Research Impact, Holistic Performance

📺 Recommended For:

Researchers and PhD scholars in Operations Management, Sustainability, and Organization Studies

Practitioners interested in bridging theory and practice

Academics exploring the future of impactful management research