Dr. Joseph Juran was born in Romania in 1904. Dr. Juran acquired a BS in Electrical Engineering at the university of Minnesota and a law degree from Loyola University. Early in his career Juran worked in with statistical methods and industrial engineering. Dr. Juran is noted for his book the Quality Control Handbook which first published in 1951. Juran, like Deming, helped the Japanese to improve their industrial processes. Dr. Juran’s focus was on managing business processes to improve. He forwarded the use of Pareto analysis and Quality Circles to generate improvements. Dr. Juran also developed the Quality Trilogy which promoted quality planning, quality control, and quality improvement as the means to improve a business’s bottom line. Dr. Joseph Juran died in Rye, N.Y. in 2008.