Do you recommend that a company imbed Black Belts within business units or organize them in a central group that are "loaned out" to business units for project work?
In my deployment and implementation experience, Black Belts should not be pooled into a central organization and then farmed out like a bunch of “rented experts.” To my knowledge, only a few organizations have successfully implemented this type of approach. When executed in a large-scale corporation, there is a certain amount of “up-front management appeal.” …