24.06.2008
International Akao Award goes to Germany
This year’s international Akao Scholarship Award will go to a graduate of the joint master’s programme in business data processing of Universität Stuttgart and Universität Hohenheim: Lars Oliver Mautsch will receive the US$ 2,000.00 prize for his master’s thesis.
The Akao Award was created to honour the world’s best contribution to the further development of the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) quality management and product development method by a student. QFD was invented in Japan by Professor Yoji Akao and was originally used exclusively in shipbuilding. In his thesis, Lars Oliver Mautsch expanded the method and applied it to specific elements of software development processes. Companies use QFD to ensure that they develop and market products and services that customers truly want. In the method, all business units of a company share responsibility for quality.
With his thesis, the 27-year-old is continuing the Stuttgart tradition of applying and refining QFD – he is currently a research assistant to Prof. Georg Herzwurm, recipient of the Akao Award in 2000. Mautsch will receive the award at the International Symposium on QFD in Beijing on the 25th and 26th of September 2008.
More:
http://www.wi-us.uni-stuttgart.de http://www.qfdi.org/akao_scholarship.htm
