“…Lean, Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigma (LSS) and Agile, have significant potential to eradicate the causes that throttle growth in organizations. With their ability to improve productivity, enhance product/ service quality, improve customer experience (Chiarini and Kumar, 2021) and consequently aid organizational improvement (Naik et al, 2023), they have been the preferred choice of industry. Out of all OPEX methodologies, Lean, Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigma (LSS) and Agile are three methodologies that are predominantly deployed in organizations (Antony and Sony, 2021;McDermott et al, 2021), with Lean, Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma being heavily utilized in over 95% of Pharmaceutical and MedTech industries (McDermott et al, 2022a, b).…”