Yoji Akao
Yoji Akao (赤尾 洋二, Akao Yōji, 1928 – October 24, 2016) was a Japanese planning specialist recognized as the developer of Hoshin Kanri (a strategic planning methodology). With the late , he developed Quality Function Deployment (a group decision making technique). Akao and Mizuno also co-founded the Quality Function Deployment Institute: a non-profit organization dedicated to dissemination and advancement of QFD.[1]
Akao received a Ph.D. in 1964 from the Tokyo Institute of Technology.[2]
Books[]
Akao authored or co-authored several books:
- Quality Function Deployment: Integrating Customer Requirements Into Product Design (1991)
- Hoshin Kanri: Policy Deployment for Successful TQM (Corporate Leadership) (1990)
- QFD: The Customer Driven Approach to Quality Planning and Deployment (co-authored with Shigeru Mizuno) (1994)
Awards[]
- Deming Prize: 1978
- Quality Control Literature Prize: 1960 and 1978
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- 1928 births
- Japanese business theorists
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