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QA Ltd is a national training company based in the UK but providing training to organisations all over the world. The company provides IT, business management and project management training for individuals and organisations. It is an accredited training provider for ITIL〔''(AXELOS Global Best Practice Strategic Accredited Training Organizations )''〕 and an approved trainer for the ISO/IEC 20000 Standard (the first international standard for IT service management).〔''(ISO/IEC 20000-1:2011 IT Service Management System (SMS) Standard )''〕 It provides certified qualifications for the Association for Project Management and the Project Management Institute as well as Prince2® qualifications.〔''(QA Ltd Project and Programme Management Training )''〕 == History == In 1985 three former Intel employees - Mike Cheeseman, Jim Watt and Howard Kornstein - formed QA Ltd. The name came from a combination of Queen Anne House in Cirencester and the term Quality Assurance. In the early days, the company rented office space in the Cirencester Park Estate, where the Earl Bathurst was the company's landlord. Shortly afterwards, QA Ltd began to provide technical training for IBM's European staff. In the early 1990s IBM acquired 10% of QA Ltd and co-opted Howard Ford to the company's board.〔''(History of QA )''〕 In the following year, 1991, the company made investment plans to grow by around 30% before its performance was significantly hindered, with IBM reporting an unprecedented loss of US$5bn in the last quarter of 1992 alone,〔''(The Tech: IBM's $5 Billion Loss Highest in American Corporate History )''〕 coupled with the negative effects of the global recession and the Gulf War. It was a survival period for QA Ltd, but the company emerged and went on to acquire the training division of CapGemini, enabling it to develop Business Analysis products and partnerships in several other geographies. In 2006 QA Ltd was bought by Interquad and became QA-!Q.〔''(CRN: Interquad completes QA acquisition )''〕 Later, QA Ltd went on to acquire competitor companies Xpertise Group, Remarc Group and Aikona Management,〔''(History of QA )''〕 before refinancing to the tune of £50m in 2014.〔''(Education Investor Exclusive: QA preparing for £40m to £50m refinancing )''〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「QA Ltd」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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