Steven Ouellette

Steve Ouellette started his career as a metallurgical engineer. It was during this time that his eyes were opened to find that business was not a random series of happenings, but that it could be a knowable enterprise. This continues to fascinate him to this day.

He started consulting in 1996 and has worked in heavy and light industry, service, aerospace, higher education, government, and non-profits. He is the President of The ROI Alliance, LLC. He is the author of Galileo's Telescope, which teaches how to create meaningful metrics and strategic plans, and Data-Driven Leadership, or how to integrate data into management decisions. His author website can be found at steveouellette.com.

Steve has a black belt in aikido, a non-violent martial art, and spent a year in Europe on a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship studying the “Evolution, Fabrication, and Social Impact of the European Sword."

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The Top 10 Stupid Six Sigma Tricks: #10 Conflating systems, strategies and tools
Tue, 08/15/2006 - 22:00
As I said in my premier Heretic column, “Dogma and Definition,” I’m interested in examining our assumptions and premises about Six Sigma so we can discard the dross and refine the potential benefits in implementing it.To that end, I have…
Dogma and Definition A polemic
Tue, 06/20/2006 - 22:00
I n Dirk Dusharme’s First Word in the April 2006 issue of Quality Digest, he sneaks into the back of the “Church of the Six Sigma” and cannily reports the goings on. In this column, I will burst in through the doors dressed in motley and try to…
Black Belt Training: Coming to a Desktop Near You Get a Black Belt whenever and wherever you want
Tue, 01/17/2006 - 22:00
“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”
Herbert Spencer (1820 – 1903) What’s distance learning?
Six Sigma Black Belt training has long been the realm of the elite. It used to be so expensive and required so…