Yōji Akao
Yōji Akao ( Japanese 赤 尾 洋 二 , Akao Yōji ; born October 6, 1928 in Jakarta , Indonesia ; † October 24, 2016 ) was a Japanese economic theorist.
Life
He was a specialist in strategic planning, is considered the developer of Hoshin Management and, in collaboration with Shigeru Mizuno , of Quality Function Deployment . Akao is the founder of the Quality Function Deployment Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving QFD .
Yōji has last been researching at Asahi University since 1995 . His academic career began at the Tōkyō Kōgyō Daigaku ( Tokyo Institute of Technology ), where he also graduated in 1948. From 1962 he taught at Yamanashi University and from 1981 at Tamagawa University .
On October 24, 2016, Prof. Dr. Yoji Akao at the age of 88.
Awards
A prize is named after Akao and has been awarded annually since 1996.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Main page of the QFD Institute.
- ↑ Asahi University website ( Memento from May 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://qfdi.org/notes/akao_memoriam.html
- ↑ http://www.qfdi.org/who_is_qfdi/akao_prize.htm
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Akao, Yōji |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 赤 尾 洋 二 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese specialist in strategic planning |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 6, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jakarta , Indonesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 24, 2016 |