Shoji Shiba


Shoji Shiba is an international expert in Total Quality Management and Breakthrough Management. Globally he is best known for developing the "Five Step Discovery Process" for Breakthrough Management. In the recent years he has been guiding the transformation of the Indian manufacturing industry.
A Deming Prize winner in an individual capacity for propagating TQM amongst corporates and governments, Prof. Shiba has authored books like 'A New American TQM', 'Integrated Management Systems', 'Four Practical Revolutions in Management' in English and 'Breakthrough Management'.
Prof. Shiba is Professor Emeritus of University of Tsukuba in Japan, Advisory Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and Distinguished Honorary Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. From 1990 to 2004, he taught at the Sloan School of Management, MIT.
He is, at present, the Chief Advisor to the Visionary Leaders for Manufacturing Programme in India. It is an innovative management transformation programme being implemented in collaboration with Japan International Cooperation Agency, to create a critical mass of Visionary Leaders to lead India’s manufacturing sector into future growth. It is a globally successful experiment in collaboration with the Indian Industry,Indian Academia and the Indian Government.
Prof Shiba has also diffused TQM concepts to industry and governments of various countries, including Chile, China, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United States, the United Kingdom, and the former USSR.

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