About Yoji Akao
Lived 1928 – 2016 (aged 87–88). Yoji Akao was a Japanese economist and university teacher.
was a Japanese planning specialist recognized as the developer of Hoshin Kanri (a strategic planning methodology). With the late Shigeru Mizuno, 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.
Akao received a Ph.D. in 1964 from the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
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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Who was Yoji Akao?
Planning specialist (1928–2016)
When was Yoji Akao born?
Yoji Akao was born in 1928 in Jakarta.
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Yoji Akao died on 24 October 2016.
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Yoji Akao was an economist and university teacher.
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Yoji Akao was Japanese.
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