Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Operational excellence

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. Valid managementese. (non-admin closure) -- Trevj (talk) 11:23, 23 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Operational excellence

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undocumented and totally vague: "an element of organizational leadership that stresses the application of a variety of principles, systems, and tools toward the sustainable improvement of key performance metrics." In other words, a method of planning that uses whatever may be useful. The phrase appears in multiple book titles, but it seems to have no specific meaning. (If it does turn out to be a specific system. this collection of buzzwords could only be promotional, not encyclopedic) DGG ( talk ) 15:35, 27 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Management-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:57, 27 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Excellence. Readers can look up "operational" on their own. :) Candleabracadabra (talk) 04:20, 28 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:44, 6 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep—There are only a bazillion books that cover this topic, many of which are readable via Gbooks. The article is nearly empty, but it's a super-notable topic. Livit⇑^Eh?/_What? 15:21, 6 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep While I share your distaste for vague buzzword-compliant management strategies, the real question is whether this is a notable topic. It seems so. There is a Center for Operational Excellence at OSU business school where you can get a Masters in the subject. The whole of the University of California is currently suffering under a plan for operational excellence. Gbooks shows many books devoted to the topic. GScholar shows 11,900 hits for '"operational excellence" -wikipedia'. The topic seems highly notable and is treated in depth in many reliable sources. The article has problems, but this is a matter of editing. A highly notable topic and an article with no insurmountable problems, per WP:SURMOUNTABLE, suggests keeping the article. --Mark viking (talk) 16:36, 6 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 02:06, 13 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Reluctant keep. Pages like this one do treat "operational excellence" as a term of art rather than just a pair of words that frequently appear next to each other. To me the term seems to be synonymous with 'doing something well', but it's there in the literature. groupuscule (talk) 17:00, 14 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.