Customer Review: For decades Joseph Juran has been a famous name in the quality movement. He formed his own institute for quality and has for many years edited an extensive volume on methods for improving quality in manufacturing processes. This Quality Handbook, now in its fifth edition has long been the basic... more info
Customer Review: In this year when Juran's very long life and career ended, it is good to reflect on his large and persistent contribution to the practice of manangement. Juran's career started in manufactoring (right here in Chicago at the Western Electric plant). Establishing goals and units of measurement,... more info
Quality Control Handbook is classic reference book for quality engineers, first released in 1951. Among the quality management ideas and concepts for which Juran is well known include top management involvement, the Pareto principle, the need for widespread training in quality, the definition... more info
Customer Review: Because of work, I have had to read a lot of books on this topic... most of them are dry-textbook reads that you have to slog through. This one was well written - the text was easy to read - the diagrams and examples were interesting, and I found myself gaining new insights because I was actually... more info
Customer Review: This book is a must read for those who wish to learn about quality and talks about the entire history of the quality movement and the japanese revolution, and what would be the future of the science of quality management. I found this book a easy read than most others that I've read on quality... more info
Customer Review: This is a great management book. I recommend it along with "Strategic Organizational Change" by Beitler, "Good to Great" by Collins, and "Execution" by Bossidy & Charan.
This is an excellent autobiography by one of the most renowned quality gurus in the world. His contributions to the field of quality management in his over 70 active working years is outstanding. Dr. Juran was the first to incorporate the human aspect of quality management which is referred to... more info
