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Yoji Akao

Planning specialist (1928-2016) · Japan · On the map · Academics · Died at 88

Yoji Akao was a Japanese planning specialist recognized as the developer of Hoshin Kanri. With the late Shigeru Mizuno, he developed Quality Function Deployment. Akao and Mizuno also co-founded the Quality Function Deployment Institute: a non-profit organization dedicated to dissemination and advancement of QFD.

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