Post-ANQ Event |
Shoji Shiba will share his rich experience from US, Europe and Asia in his Keynote speech in Hong Kong, August 3, 2012 |
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.
He is, at present, the Chief Advisor to the Visionary Leaders for Manufacturing Program (VLFM) in India. It is an innovative management transformation program being implemented in collaboration with Japan International Cooperation Agency, to create a critical mass of Visionary Leaders to lead India’s manufacturing sector in to future growth. It is a globally successful experiment in collaboration with the Indian Industry (Confederation of Indian Industry), Indian Academia (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and Madras) and the Indian Government (National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council).
Professor Shoji Shiba has taught at Massachusetts Institue of Technology’s (MIT) Sloan School of Management for 15 years from 1990 to 2004, primarily in the Leaders for Manufacturing program (LFM) as an adjunct professor or visiting professor during his stay at MIT.
From 1996 to 2000, he also was a professor of business administration and dean of the School of Applied International Studies at Tokiwa University in Japan. Professor Shiba was also a co-founder of the Center for Quality of Mangement (CQM).
As an international expert and teacher in TQM Shoji Shiba is responsible for disseminating the practices and methodologies of TQM to the industries and governments of many countries (including Hungary, China, India, Europe, USA).
Shoji Shiba is the author of Four Practical Revolutions in Management. The Japanese edition of his book Breakthrough Management organized and summarized the previous decade of Professor Shiba’s investigation into practical methods of surviving in a rapidly changing world, where top management leadership toward business breakthrough is equally important as traditional management techniques (or even more important). The English edition was published in US in 2006 and in France in 2007. Shoji Shiba is also co-author of other important books like A New American TQM and Integrated Management Systems.
Professor Shiba has been received many awards. In 2001, he received the school’s Teaching Excellence Award for his work in the course Breakthrough Management at MIT Sloan. He was also honored by the Ministry of Industry in Hungary establishing the annual IIASA Shiba award for his work there in TQM. In January 2002, Professor Shoji Shiba received the coveted honor of being named an Academician of the International Academy for Quality (IAQ). Only 75 people throughout the world are recognized as academicians at any given time. Already 9 months later the Deming Prize Committee announced that Professor Shoji Shiba, Visiting Professor at MIT Sloan, would be awarded the 2002 Deming Prize for Individuals. The Deming Prize (Japan) is one of the highest awards for Total Quality Management (TQM) in the world. In 2005, the European Organization for Quality (EOQ) recognized Shoji Shiba by presenting him the Georg Borel International Medal for individuals’ performance in the sense of their mission for the European quality movement. In 2006 Hungarian President awarded Shoji Shiba the Hungarian Republic Grand Cross of Merits, the highest award for a foreign civilian.
For his "immense contributions towards fostering academic exchanges between Japan and India" Shoji Shiba received in 2011 the Award from the Emperor of Japan – The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon. In 2012 he received the Padma Shri Award from the Government of India.