Kaoru ishikawa biography quality management

Japanese business theorist

Kaoru Ishikawa (石川 馨, Ishikawa Kaoru, July 13, 1915 – April 16, 1989) was a Japanese organizational theorist and a professor in the engineering faculty at the University of Tokyo who was noted for his quality management innovations.

He is considered a key figure in the development of quality initiatives in Japan, particularly the quality circle.^[1] He is best known outside Japan for the Ishikawa or cause and effect diagram (also known as the fishbone diagram), often used in the analysis of industrial processes.

Biography

Kaoru Ishikawa was born in Tokyo, the eldest of the eight sons of Ichiro Ishikawa.

Kaoru ishikawa fishbone diagram

In 1937, he graduated from the University of Tokyo with an engineering degree in applied chemistry. After college, he worked as a naval technical officer from 1939 to 1941. From 1941 to 1947, Ishikawa worked at the Nissan Liquid Fuel Company.

In 1947, Ishikawa started his academic career as an associate professor at the