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JMJoseph M. Juran

Joseph M. Juran

Quality Management Pioneer — Founder, Juran Institute

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Continuous ImprovementOperational ExcellenceLeadership

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Joseph M. Juran was a quality-management pioneer who helped establish quality as a management discipline, not only a shop-floor technique. He is associated with the quality trilogy (quality planning, quality control, and quality improvement) and with applying the Pareto principle to quality. He founded the Juran Institute, which maintains a history of his work.

Ideas they're known for

  • The quality trilogy: planning, control, and improvement
  • Quality as a management discipline
  • The Pareto principle applied to quality

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Photograph in the public domain (Rochester Institute of Technology, News & Events, 1987), via Wikimedia Commons.

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