William J. Latzko
313 S. W. Mudd Building
500 W. 120th Street
New York, New York 10027
Phone: +1 212-854-2987
Fax: +1 212-854-8103
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William J. Latzko, Ph.D., is a management consultant who helps his
clients to achieve quality in their products and services. He has over
50 years of technical and management experience in manufacturing
and service industries.
Dr. Latzko is president of Latzko Associates, a management consulting organization specializing in issues of quality. He has served as director of quality control for Mundet Cork Corporation, director of management science and quality control for CBS, Columbia Record Club,
and vice president for quality control for the Irving Trust Company.
Formerly he was plant manager for the Joseph Dixon Crucible Company and
for Alpha Metals.
He is a widely recognized lecturer for the American Society for Quality
(ASQ), George Washington University, as well as many other technical and
professional societies throughout the United States and abroad. Fellow of the American Society for Quality as well as a certified quality engineer, Dr. Latzko is a past chair of the quality management division of the ASQ. He was also the first chair of the ASQ
Deming Medal Committee. He has served as chair and treasurer of the metropolitan section of ASQ. He is also a member of the American
Statistical Association. He received the ASQ Ellis R. Ott Award for
joining quality technology and management and the W. Edwards Deming
Medal.
He is the author of Quality and Productivity for Bankers and Financial
Managers and Řízení Jakosri (Czech for "managing quality"), and he has written
over 40 articles on quality control. He is coauthor of MICR Quality
Control Handbook and a contributor to Dr. Deming’s books, Quality,
Productivity, and Competitive Position and Out of the Crises. His latest
book, with David Saunders, is Four Days with Dr. Deming: A Strategy for
Modern Methods of Management.
He is a graduate of Fordham (B.S.), Rutgers (M.B.A.), Rutgers/ABA Stonier
Graduate School of Banking (D.B.), and Kennedy-Western University
(Ph.D.), and also studied at New York University, where he took all of
Dr. Deming’s courses. He is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma (business) and
Delta Pi Sigma (statistics).