Business Architecture - Lean Six Sigma's (un)natural Bedfellow

Cats and dogs living in harmony, bright sunshine the weekend of the big BBQ and used car salesmen standing behind their guarantees. These are just a few of the unnatural events that some say also includes business architects and their business blueprints cooperating with lean-six-sigma black belts and their value stream maps.Despite the misgivings of some business architecture 'priests' who see themselves as at the pinnacle of the value-add pile. And those of the lean-six-sigma 'zealots' who KNOW that everything but what they are doing (AND how they are doing it) is a waste of time. They in fact very often need one another and are very complementary to one another.The key to understanding this assertion is in the respective histories of the two camps.