About Us

In May 2022, Juran was acquired by Attain Partners, a leading management, technology, and compliance consulting firm headquartered in McLean, VA. Now known as Attain Partners | Juran, we look forward to joining forces with Attain Partners to continue helping organizations worldwide build cultures of excellence through quality management. We will continue to offer robust advisory services and comprehensive training and certification programs, including Lean Six Sigma (LSS). Together, we are more than just a consultancy. We don't just teach you what to do, we help you learn and apply the methodologies and tools to deliver real financial results at your organization.
About Us
In May 2022, Juran was acquired by Attain Partners, a leading management, technology, and compliance consulting firm headquartered in McLean, VA. Now known as Attain Partners | Juran, we look forward to joining forces with Attain Partners to continue helping organizations worldwide build cultures of excellence through quality management. We will continue to offer robust advisory services and comprehensive training and certification programs, including Lean Six Sigma (LSS). Together, we are more than just a consultancy. We don't just teach you what to do, we help you learn and apply the methodologies and tools to deliver real financial results at your organization.
Leading Change

Everyone wants to be better.

Whatever the business, there is always room for improvement. To be productive, to be profitable, to compete, everyone can and must be better.

And when you don’t perform well, it’s customers who notice first.

We’ve built our business on helping others improve their products and deliver better services that customers demand.

Born out of a vision for excellence in business operations, our expertise is drawn from insights and experience in every industry and around the world.

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The Foundations
Creating Capability

More than consultancy

We don’t just tell you what to do. Our focus on improvement is at the individual level.

We transfer our knowledge, experience and expertise to create the capacity and capability for continuous improvement in your company.

Through on-site and online training, we inculcate the skills, attitudes and behaviours that enable you to continue to raise performance from one project to the next.

Combining deep insight into your business with practical methodologies developed and proven over time, we create high-performance operations and a culture of excellence that sustains your success.

Our Approach
Consistent Success

Our impact on industry

With the right conditions in place, every business can design, deploy and maintain the systems and culture that deliver continuous improvement.

Over the past 40 years, we’ve helped organizations worldwide improve their performance, project by project. Sectors we’ve worked in include Manufacturing, Energy, Healthcare, Technology, Consumer Goods, Retail, Defence, Government and Financial Services.

See the results we have delivered for businesses.

Unique Insight

Juran began with an idea

Dr. Joseph Juran founded our business 40 years ago – at the age of 75 – having already had an outstanding career as an engineer, professor and adviser to industry.

Throughout his career he was driven by the desire to solve business problems, but also to pass on his experience and insights to others.

His work focussed on improving organizational performance through the pursuit of quality in process, production and people.

Along the way he developed many ideas that are now part of the common currency of business thinking.

He was prominent among a group of American management thinkers credited with the recovery and supremacy of Japanese business in the decades after WWII.

Dr Jurans History

Juran and the 80:20 rule

Perhaps Dr. Juran’s most widely adopted idea was what he named the Pareto Principle – a means of focussing attention on the 20% of aspects of any system that create 80% of the impact.

Intensely interested in the causes and solutions to business problems, his search for answers resulted in the discovery of many similar ideas with wide application to business.

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The Quality Handbook

Dr Juran was successful as a communicator as well as an analyst of business. His most widely read work, Juran’s Quality Handbook, a guide to high performance in business, has never been out of print since its first publication, more than 60 years ago.

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The Key Stats

Proven results everytime.

The Juran approach has helped businesses and organizations of all kinds to succed.

Although Juran’s history began in manufacturing, our experience is much wider.

We successfully apply our tools, techniques and approaches to product and service-led businesses in equal measure.

60 countries
worked in
950 companies
worked with
25,000
projects completed
$5 billion+
of savings
Leadership

Juran is lead by a team of quality management experts.

By the nature of our work, we roll up our sleeves and do whatever it takes to make your transformation comfortable and workable. Get to know our team.

Dr. Joseph A. DeFeo
Chairman & Executive Advisor
Dr. Joseph A. DeFeo, Chairman and Executive Adviser of Juran, is recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on transformational change and breakthrough quality management. For 28 years, Dr. DeFeo has worked as a trusted adviser helping business leaders increase sales, reduce costs and improve its customer experience through the deployment of performance excellence programs. These include Business Process Quality Management, Lean, Six Sigma, Strategy Deployment and Change Management. His recent publication, Juran’s Quality Essentials for Leaders, provides a concise message delivered for leaders to teach them how to embrace quality, not fight it, to be a globally competitive enterprise. Dr. DeFeo has co-authored three other popular texts. DeFeo’s belief that a relentless customer focus and integrity drives business results was recently noted by Steve Denning of Forbes.com. A frequent motivational guest speaker at international conferences, Dr. DeFeo has presented in over 30 countries.
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Michael Stamp
Vice President
Michael Stamp serves as Vice President at Juran. In this capacity, he specializes in Continuous Process Improvement, Lean Management and delivering a variety of quality programs to corporate clients. Mr. Stamp has over 25 years of experience and is an outstanding change agent who can identify opportunities, develop focus and provide strategic and tactical business solutions. Mr. Stamp’s core competencies include Process Improvement, Operational Streamlining, Data Science, Special Project Management, Training & Coaching, Cost Reduction, Multi-Site Operations, Quality Control/Assurance, Policy & Procedure Development, Leadership Development & Culture Transformation and Statistics.
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John Neal
Chief Strategy and Operations Officer
John serves as the Chief Strategy and Operations Officer at Juran.  John focuses on the unique needs of organizations, business leaders and employees, particularly on those who are looking to develop new skills and expertise and improve workforce capabilities.  John is committed to listening and learning about organizational challenges and helping them think through solutions that help them solve their problems and achieve their goals.  John is also responsible for developing and executing business development strategies, improving strategic partnerships, overseeing the execution of the sales process, and ensuring our internal operations are focused and effective.  Prior to Juran, John held corporate leadership positions in HR, leadership and people development, management consulting, Lean/Process Improvement and corporate strategy.  John was also the founder of a boutique management consulting company focused on strategic planning and development, creative problem-solving and improving business performance.  John remains engaged and connected to emerging Human Capital and Technology trends through memberships with The World Economic Forum, Deloitte, MIT, LinkedIn and the Built in Boston Community.  John attended Northeastern University and the University of New Hampshire where he attained a dual degree in Business Management and Health Policy.
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The Blog

Latest Articles

Blog

Assuring Elections Quality

Posted by Dr. Joseph A DeFeo on March 30, 2021
By Thomas Pyzdek and Joseph A. DeFeo The views expressed in this White Paper are solely those of the authors.…
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Knowledge

What Does Operational Excellence Look Like?

Posted by Dr. Joseph A DeFeo on August 5, 2020
What is Operational Excellence? Operational excellence (OpEx) is the goal of improved business performance. It usually means using lean manufacturing…
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Knowledge

Quality Control & Quality Assurance – What Is the Difference?

Posted by Juran on August 4, 2020
It is often assumed that quality control and quality assurance are one and the same thing—however, while both are an…
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