Background
Juran, Joseph Moses was born on December 24, 1904 in Braila, Rumania. Arrived in the United States, 1912, naturalized, 1917. Son of Jakob and Gitel (Goldenberg) Juran.
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The subject of management for quality has undergone rapid and drastic change as a result of competition in the marketplace and the vulnerability of industrialized societies that depend heavily on the quality of goods and services. In this companion volume to his acclaimed Juran on Planning for Quality, J.M. Juran provides top-level managers with the specific, field-tested methods they need to successfully lead their companies on the quest for superior quality. Managers have long recognized that the most sound response to a competitive challenge is to become more competitive. Today, informed managers also realize that quality improvement is the best source of competitive advantage. They know that return on investment in quality improvement projects is among the highest available. Yet, the means by which management can supply the leadership necessary to attain quality goals remains elusive. J.M. Juran has drawn on the experiences of thousands of chief executives in companies around the world to create a clear plan of action applicable to any industry, whether service or manufacturing. The famous "Juran Trilogy," clearly presented step-by-step, shows how to apply the familiar business concepts of planning, control, and improvement to quality leadership. For each concept, Dr. Juran provides a succinct and proven series of actions. He gives criteria for selecting project-by-project improvements and mobilizing a team to carry them out. He also describes a realistic timetable of implementation and directs the formation of an ongoing quality council whose job is to launch, coordinate, and "institutionalize" annual quality improvement. The membership of this council, as Dr. Juran insists, must come from the ranks of senior managers; the stakes are too high for upper managers not to personally become the leaders and members of this vital council. Using real-world case examples of highly profitable quality improvements in such companies as Bethlehem Steel and Florida Power & Light, Dr. Juran illustrates how to guide a company into a continuing steep rate of improvement. The key, as Dr. Juran emphasizes, is that quality must be implemented from the top down. This essential handbook makes executive leadership the key to a company's quality revolution -- and to producing the real cost benefits over both the short and long run that superior quality brings.
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(Building on the experiences of scores of companies and hu...)
Building on the experiences of scores of companies and hundreds of managers, J.M. Juran, the world-renowned quality pioneer, presents a new, exhaustively comprehensive approach to planning, setting, and reaching quality goals. Employing three case examples which encompass the three major sectors of the economy -- service, manufacturing, and support, he offers a practical plan for companies to achieve strategic, market-driven goals by following a structural approach to planning quality. Quality, according to Juran, has become a prerequisite for business success. He cites the loss of market share, failure of products, and waste as results of poor quality planning. Juran provides a set of universal steps which can be used in the basic managerial process to establish quality goals, identify customers, determine customer needs, provide measurement, and develop process features and controls to improve business tactics. The author gives new emphasis to setting quality goals, planning in "multifunctional" processes, establishing data bases for quality planning, motivating managers and the work force, and introducing quality planning into organizations.
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Juran, Joseph Moses was born on December 24, 1904 in Braila, Rumania. Arrived in the United States, 1912, naturalized, 1917. Son of Jakob and Gitel (Goldenberg) Juran.
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, University Minnesota, 1924. Juris Doctor, Loyola University, 1935. Doctor of Engineering (honorary), Stevens Institute of Technology, 1988.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Minnesota, 1992. Doctor of Science (honorary), Rochester Institute of Technology, 1992. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University New Haven, 1992.
With, Western Electric Company, Inc., 1924-1941;
assistant administrator, Office Lend-Lease Administration, 1941-1943;
assistant administrator, Foreign Economics Administration, 1943-1945;
professor, department chairman administrative engineering, New York University, 1945-1951;
professor independent engineer, New York University, 1951;
private consultant, New York City, 1951-1979;
chairman emeritus, Juran Institute, Inc., Wilton, Connecticut, since 1979. Consultant numerous industrial companies and government agys., since 1945, visiting lecturer numerous American and Foreign universities. Founder, chairman Juran Institute, Inc., 1979-1987, emeritus, since 1987.
Founder, chairman Juran Foundation, Inc., since 1986.
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Fellow: American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (honorary Warner medal 1945, Eli Whitney award 1995, Soichior Honda medal 1995), American Management Association, American Institute Industrial Engineers (Gilbreth medal 1981), International Academy Management, American Society for Quality Control (honorary Brumbaugh award 1958, Edwards medal 1962, Eugene L. Grant medal 1967). Member: National Academy of Engineering, Spanish Society for Quality Control, British Institute Quality Assurance, Spanish Association for Quality Control, European Organization Quality Control (honorary medal 1993), Philippine Society for Quality Control, Argentine Organization for Quality Control, Australian Organization for Quality Control (Juran medal named in his honor 1975), Romanian Academy (academician 1992, established Juran award 1992), member, sometime officer many professional associations, Alpha Pi Mu, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi.
Married Sadie Shapiro, June 5, 1926. Children: Robert, Sylvia, Charles, Donald.