The main topics of the 57th EOQ Quality Congress are announced

The main topics of the 57th EOQ Quality Congress are announced and the Call for Papers is opened.

57th EOQ Congress “Quality Renaissance – Co-creating a Viable Future” focuses on new, but also well-proven approaches ensuring sustainable future for organizations and society. We are looking for presentations, as well as ideas for interactive workshops regarding Quality and Excellence in the widest sense. The topics can cover, but are not limited to the following areas:

• How Quality & Excellence can save the world 
• Quality and innovation
• Diversity as source for innovation
• Creativity in highly standardized world – chaos and order
• Complexity and management
• Corporate responsibility and sustainability
• Quality of life
• Risk management
• Lean management and productivity improvement
• Six Sigma and statistical thinking
• Business process management and performance measurement
• Operational and business excellence
• Customer and stakeholder awareness
• Impact of quality and excellence practices on key business results
• Integrated management systems
• Organizational culture, learning and knowledge management
• Transformational and wise leadership
• Managing change
• Balancing the hard and soft side of quality
• Networking, partnership and cooperation
• Logistics, supply chain and quality
• Globalisation and international standardisation
• Revisiting forgotten models and methods
• New trends in quality and management – need for a paradigm shift?

The above mentioned topics can cover wide range of sectors – industry, IT, service, public, non-governmental, education, healthcare, tourism, etc.

Important deadlines:

• September 30, 2012: Submission of abstracts
• November 30, 2012: Confi rmation of acceptance as speaker or stand-by speaker
• March 31, 2013: Submission of the full text by the speakers and stand-by speakers (including payment of the registration fee).