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Mission & Vision<\/h2>[vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

To develop content, connect participants in Africa with peers across the world for knowledge and experience sharing and support the use of the online, class based and experiential learning.<\/p>\n

To provide quality training, capacity development and consultancy for organisations across Africa endeavouring to grow productivity, efficiency and effectiveness while providing an opportunity for staff career growth and knowledge enrichment.<\/p>\n

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Roundtable Training Africa is East Africa\u2019s Representative of W. Edwards Deming Institute, USA)<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Ketchum, Idaho , USA<\/strong><\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]Who is W. Edwards Deming?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A world known contributor and guru in management, leadership and innovation, total quality management thinker<\/p>\n

William Edwards Deming (1900-1993) is widely acknowledged as the leading management thinker in the field of quality. He was a statistician and business consultant whose methods helped hasten Japan\u2019s recovery after the Second World War and beyond. He derived the first philosophy and method that allowed individuals and organisations to plan and continually improve themselves, their relationships, processes, products and services. His philosophy is one of cooperation and continual improvement; it avoids blame and redefines mistakes as opportunities for improvement.<\/p>\n

At Stanford, Deming taught the Stanford statistic-training program to nearly 2,000 people in a couple of years, using the Shewhart Cycle for Learning and Improvement and the PDCA Cycle.<\/p>\n

Just before he died in 1993 he founded the W. Edwards Deming Institute.<\/p>\n

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[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]W Edwards Demings Accomplishment Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n

Deming\u2019s work and writing constitute not so much a technique, as a philosophy of management, Total Quality Management, that focuses on quality and continuous improvement but which has had – justifiably – a much wider influence.<\/p>\n

Here we will consider Deming\u2019s interest in variation and his approach to systematic problem solving which led on to his development of:<\/p>\n