- Juran Institute
=History=
The Juran Institute is an international consulting company founded by quality expert
Joseph M. Juran in 1979. It provides training and consulting services inquality improvement andmanagement as well asSix Sigma certification.Juran Institute headquarters are based in
Southbury, Connecticut with offices inChina ,Egypt ,Germany ,Netherlands ,South Africa ,South Korea ,Spain , theUnited Arab Emirates , and theUnited Kingdom .The institute began as an effort to transcribe Juran's decades of knowledge into a series of audiocassettes in the late 1970s, as inspired by a similar effort by
Peter Drucker .Citation
last = Juran
first = Joseph M.
publication-date = 2004
title = Architect of Quality: The Autobiography of Dr. Joseph M. Juran
edition = 1
publication-place =New York City
publisher =McGraw-Hill
isbn = 9780071426107
oclc = 52877405
page = 326-327 This effort, with the help of his granddaughter's boyfriend, G. Howland Blackiston eventually became a small business video production company with an office in theUnited Nations Plaza in New York City. Together they produced the "Juran on Quality Improvement" series of videocassettes of which they sold nearly $16 million.With the success of the videocassette series, customers began to ask for help institutionalizing quality improvement in their businesses.Citation
last = Juran
first = Joseph M.
publication-date = 2004
title = Architect of Quality: The Autobiography of Dr. Joseph M. Juran
edition = 1
publication-place =New York City
publisher =McGraw-Hill
isbn = 9780071426107
oclc = 52877405
page = 330-331 To meet this need, the Juran Institute began offering consulting services and moved its headquarters toWilton, Connecticut to be able to attract professionals to add to its consulting staff. In 1987, the Institute hired its first professional manager, Dr. A. Blanton Godfrey from AT&T to be its first CEO.Sales peaked in 1994 and declined through 1999Citation
last = Juran
first = Joseph M.
publication-date = 2004
title = Architect of Quality: The Autobiography of Dr. Joseph M. Juran
edition = 1
publication-place =New York City
publisher =McGraw-Hill
isbn = 9780071426107
oclc = 52877405
page = 334, but its fortunes turned around with the increasing demand forSix Sigma training.External links
* [http://www.juran.com/ Official website]
* [http://www.juran.es/ Juran Institute Spain website]References
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