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juran [′ju̇r·ən] (meteorology) A wind blowing from the Jura Mountains in Switzerland from the northwest toward Lake Geneva; it is a cold and snowy wind and may be very turbulent, especially in spring. Also spelled joran. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Deming and Juran argued that poor performance indicated an unaddressed system problem. The general concept of quality costs was first proposed by Juran in his 1951 Quality Control Handbook. At the Summative conference of the National Demonstration Project on Quality Improvement in Health care, Boston, 1988, quality legend Joseph Juran used the medical metaphor of 'immune reaction" to describe how organizational cultures -- regardless of industry -react to the introduction of column 3 quality management methodologies. |
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