Yoji Akao (1928 to 24 October 2016) was a Japanese planning and quality specialist best known as the developer of Hoshin Kanri, a method of strategic planning used in industrial management. Working with the late Shigeru Mizuno, he developed Quality Function Deployment, a group decision making technique. The two men also co-founded the Quality Function Deployment Institute, a non-profit organization set up to spread and advance the technique. Akao received his doctorate in 1964 from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He is recorded here under industrial engineering because both methods are tools for planning and organizing production and quality work.
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Yoji Akao (赤尾 洋二, Akao Yōji; 1928, October 24, 2016)
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With the late Shigeru Mizuno, he developed Quality Function Deployment (a group decision making technique).
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