Processing the process of process

Summary of a meeting I just had (edited to protect the frustrated)…
“So, we are going to recommend a new process.”

“Yes. But we can’t recommend a new process.”

“How’s that again?”

“If we recommend a new process, we’ll imply that the existing process is broken.”

“It is.”

“You can’t just say that. It will make people defensive.”

“So, we are not going to recommend a new process?”

“No.”

“But we need a new process.”

“Yes.”

“How are we going to do that then?”

“We’ll recommend a process to evaluate the current process and then recommend that we implement a new process.”

“Isn’t that what we just did? Isn’t that why we are having this ‘process improvement’ meeting?”

“Yes.”

“Okay. Lunch then?”

“Sounds good.”