The Juran Institute recently announced its plans to create the William W. Barnard Award for Personal Excellence in honor of Dr. Barnard, who recently passed away. William W. Barnard, Ph.D., was a senior vice president who worked for the Juran Institute for more than 18 years. The award bearing his name will be presented annually to one Juran employee and one Juran client. Barnard was a professional member of the American Society for Quality and devised innovative methods of process improvement to reduce the cost of poor quality. He originated the Institute’s facilitator training courses. Barnard also co-authored Juran Institute’s Six Sigma: Breakthrough and Beyond (McGraw Hill, 2004), with Joseph A. DeFeo, Juran Institute president and CEO.

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