Like Father, Like Son

摘要

There's something unique and and special about the contributions the Ishikawa family made to the global quality movement and its advancement in the development and applications of quality thinking and methods. Kaoru Ishikawa (1915-1989) is universally known and revered within the quality community. Lesser known are the significant contributions made by his father, Ichiro Ishikawa (1885-1970), to the establishment of a modern quality movement in the period after World War Ⅱ.