Dr. William Edwards Deming is said to be the father of the modern quality movement or the third phase of the industrial revolution. He was a leading teacher and scholar for more than half a century in America, Japan, and many other countries. He has published numerous articles, papers and books featuring his teachings and theories from statistical variance, human psychology and systems thinking. He has consulted for companies around the world in public governments and the private sectors of powerful corporations. One of his best-known consultancies was for Japanese companies. He was the guiding light of the spectacular rise of Japanese industry after World War II. He is also admired for his work in the American auto industry in the late 1980s. Deming's vision set the standard for how we think about quality, management, and leadership. His beliefs and teachings, along with other combined knowledge, have transformed quality management into business process management. He has lived on a path of continuous improvement for high quality through systems thinking. He lived a long life full of transformative contributions still used today. First, we will discuss his journey starting with a short timeline. Then we will conclude with his philosophy, theories and teachings and their impact on the world. Timeline: 1900-1926 Deming was born on October 14, 1900, in Sioux Falls, Iowa. He grew up on a farm in Powell, Wyoming, where the community had a habit of thrift and a hatred of waste. His beliefs stem from his frontier upbringing at Powell with the importance of people, the value of cooperation, and the mortality of waste. He believed that you should do your best, continually seek improvement for your best, and support those around you... half of the document... a member of the American Statistical Association and was its president in 1945, a member of the Institute of mathematical statistics and honorary member of the Royal Statistical Society. The W. Edwards Deming Institute, chaired by his daughter Diana Deming Cahill, was formed in November 1993 to fulfill Deming's desire that his teachings be preserved intact and not be lost in the general flow of Total Quality Management (TQM). Columbia University has a Deming Center where students are taught his methods. Fordham University offers the Deming Scholars MBA Program, an 18-month program that integrates Deming principles with the conventional MBA curriculum. For those programs, for his ideas and teaching and for the profound changes they caused, and for the many areas where changes of this kind are still needed, Deming will long be remembered.