- Honorary Chairperson (2005-), 2002-04 Chairperson, Asian Network for Quality (ANQ)
- Chairman (2011-), Selection Committee for Deming Prize for Individuals, 2004-07 Chairman, Deming Application. Prize Committee, 1978- Committee Member, Deming Prize Committee
- Lecturer(1964-), Board Member(2000-), Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE)
- Lecturer(1976-), 2007-12Board Member, The Overseas Human Resources & Industry Dev’t Association (HIDA)
- Foreign Honorary Advise(2006-), China Association for Quality (CAQ)
- Honorary Member(2010-), 2000-02 President, 1971- Member, Japanese Society for Quality Control (JSQC)
- Honorary Member(2012-), Principal Counselor (2012-), Indian Society for Quality(ISQ)
- Honorary Member(2014-), 1995-2014 Fellow, American Society for Quality (ASQ)
- Honorary Member(2014-), 1993-2014 Academician, International Academy for Quality (IAQ)
- 2003-09 Corporate Auditor of Sekisui Chemical Ltd.,
- 2006-12 Chair Professor, 2006 Honorary Doctor, Chungyuan Christian University(CYCU,Taiwan)
- 2008-14 Board Director, Komatsu Ltd
- 2006-09 Advisory Professor, Tongji University (Shanghai)
Noriaki Kano
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Credentials:
Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University of Science, Doctor of Engineering (University of Tokyo)
Engagements:
Dr. Kano was invited for research, lecture, and consultation by domestic and overseas quality related organizations. The number of the countries he has visited reaches over 60 countries.
Publications:
Over 300 papers books including “Attractive Quality”(Kano Method / Kano Model)”, “Guide to TQM in Service Industries” (in English) and “Way to Breakthrough and Creation” (in Japanese).
Honors:
- 2014 A. V. Feigenbaum Lifetime Achievement Medal, 2004 Harrington-Ishikawa Medal (APQO)
- 2012 Honorary Member, 2008 Dronacharya Award by Indian Society for Quality (ISQ)
- 2010 Ishikawa-Kano Award Established by Asian Network for Quality (ANQ)
- 2009 Kano Quality Award Established by Technological Promotion Association (TPA, Thailand)
- 2009 Distinguished Service Medal, 2006 E. L. Grant Medal、and 2002 E. Jack Lancaster Medal (ASQ)
- 2006 Honorary Doctor, Chungyuan Christian University(CYCU, Taiwan)
- 1997 Deming Prize for Individuals by Deming Prize Committee (JUSE)
- 1997 Deming Lecturer by American Statistical Association (ASA) and many others
Work Experiences:
- 1982-2006 Professor, Tokyo University of Sciences(TUS)
- 1970-1982 Lecturer & Associate Professor, The University of Electro-Communications
Education:
Completed Undergraduate & Doctoral Courses, Engineering School, the University of Tokyo.
Dr. Noriaki Kano (1940) is a Professor Emeritus, lecturer, keynote speaker, writer, TQM guru and consultant in the field of quality management. Noriaki Kano is the creator of a customer satisfaction model (Kano model), which is a simple diagram that distinguishes between essential and differentiating factors with respect to concepts of customer quality.
Between 1960 and 1970, Noriaki Kano obtained both his master’s degree (M.Sc.) and his doctorate (Ph.D.) from the University of Tokyo in Japan. Noriaki Kano began his career at the Tokyo University of Science (TUS) and he became a lecturer/ professor in the fields of quality management and general management. Later, he was also appointed Department Head of the faculty of Management Science. During his career, Noriaki Kano continued his research into customer satisfaction. He developed the Kano model by turning traditional ideas into new insights from the product or service perspective. Noriaki Kano believed that not all product or service performance factors are equal to those of the end user/customer, but that some factors create higher levels of customer loyalty than other others. One of Noriaki Kano best-known books is the ‘Guide to TQM in Service’ (1996).
In 1997, the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE)) awarded Noriaki Kano with the Deming prize for Individuals. That same year he also received the Deming Lecturer Award from the American Statistical Association for his publication ‘Business Strategies for the 21st Century and Attractive Quality Creation‘ (1996).
Publications and books by Noriaki Kano et al.
- 2007. Quality award and its evaluation method. Incheon.
- 2002. Attractive Quality Creation Under Globalization [J]. China Quality, 9, 32-34.
- 2001. Life cycle and creation of attractive quality. In 4th QMOD Conference, Linköping, Sweden (pp. 18-36).
- 2001. Attractive quality creation. In Proceedings of the 4th QMOD conference, Linköping. Sweden. McGraw-Hill.
- 1999. Quality in Japan. McGraw-Hill.
- 1997. A perspective on quality activities in American firms. Managing Strategic Innovation and Change. Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 402-416.
- 1996. Guide to TQM in Service Industries. Tokyo: Asian Productivity Organization. ISBN 978-92-833-1130-0.
- 1996. Business strategies for the 21st century and attractive quality creation. ICQ, Yokohama, 105.
- 1996. Why is TQM necessary in the service sector. TQM in Service Industries, 80-113.
- 1995. Upsizing the organization by attractive quality creation. In Total Quality Management (pp. 60-72). Springer Netherlands.
- 1994. Humanware, Human Error, and Hiyari-Hat: A Template of Unsafe Symptoms. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management-asce – J CONSTR ENG MANAGE-ASCE , vol. 120, no. 2.
- 1993. A perspective on quality activities in American firms. California Management Review, 35(3), 12-31.
- 1993. Kano’s Method for Understanding Customer-defined Quality. Center for Quality of Management Journal, Japan, 2.
- 1990. A Markov Model Incorporating Individual Differences. Journal: Japanese Journal of Applied Statistics , vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 1-18.
- 1989. Continuous improvement: quality control circles in Japanese industry. Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan.
- 1988. Lectures on Total Quality Control and the Deming Management Method. unpublished lecture notes, University of Miami Quality Program, Coral Gables, Fla, 89.
- 1987. TQC as total quality creation. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Quality Control, Tokyo (pp. 143-148).
- 1987. Quality Management in Management Engineering.
- 1984. Attractive quality and must-be quality. Journal of the Japanese Society for Quality Control (in Japanese) 14 (2): 39–48. ISSN 0386-8230.
- 1984. Miryokuteki Hinshitsu to Atarimae Hinshitsu. Attractive Quality and Must-Be Quality”). Quality, JSQC, 14(2).
- 1984. The charming quality and the should-be quality. Quality Control Journal, 21, 33-41.
- 1983. A study on the problem solving procedures of zero, decreasing, increasing target problems in TQC promotion-JSQC. In 13th Conference.
- 1968. Concept of TQC and its Introduction.