Quality expert Joseph M. Juran described Six Sigma as"a basic version of quality improvement",
stating that"there is nothing new there.
Joseph Juran was the most enthusiastic messiah of the principle,
although he called it‘the Pareto Principle' or‘the Rule of the Vital Few'.
After the second world war, Japan decided to make quality improvement a national imperative as part of rebuilding their economy, and sought the help of Stewart,
Deming and Juran, amongst others.
After the second world war, Japan decided to make quality improvement a national imperative as part of rebuilding their economy, and sought the help of Shewhart,
Deming and Juran, amongst others.
Most of the time, we do not realize the extent to which some resources, but only a small minority, are super-productive-
what Joseph Juran called the‘vital few'-
while the majority- the'trivial many'- exhibit little productivity or else actually have negative value.