To Our Customers:

Due to the current worldwide situation caused by COVID-19 (corona virus), the Organising and Program Activities Committees have decided to cancel the 2020 events including the Canadian Quality Congress, the Certification Workshops and Chapter gathering and all related meetings. For those who have registered for any of these events, we are going to refund fees in full. We thank all our members worldwide, clients and everyone else for their patronage and understanding in these difficult times. Please take care of yourself.

A Big Thank You

The 10th Canadian Quality Congress in Vancouver was a great success. A big thank you to all participants, sponsors, and exhibitors, including the foreign delegates from 15 countries from around the world who attended the 10th Canadian Quality Congress at the Simon Fraser University, Harbor Center campus, in Vancouver, Beautiful Province of British Columbia, Canada.

Congratulations!

Congratulations to all 2018 CSQ award winners! Take a look here.

New Publications

Two Special issues from selected papers from the 9th CQC at University of Toronto were published this year in Business Process Management Journal and the Leadership in Health Services Journal.

Two special issues are:

(1). Special issue of Business Process Management Journal, Vol. 24, No. 6, 2018; by Emerald Publishers (UK) consisting of selected papers from the 9th Canadian Quality Congress in Toronto, Canada. For a preview and contents, click here.

(2). Special issue of Leadership in Health Services, Vol. 31, No. 3, 2018; by Emerald Publishers (UK) consisting of selected papers from the 9th Canadian Quality Congress in Toronto, Canada. For a preview and contents, click here.

Submit your manuscript for forthcomming Emerald Journals by DEC 31, 2018 at CSQ@shaw.ca

10th CQC Technical Program

The final technical program for the 10th CQC is available upon request.

We thank all Sponsors and Exhibitors!

Announcement of the CSQ Lean Certification Training Program 

The Canadian Society for Quality (CSQ) is now offering a Lean certification Training Program in partnership and alliance with AME, Shingo Institute and SME.

Lean Certification is an evolutionary journey where your knowledge and experience work together to create a depth of expertise upon which you can keep building. It weaves innovative ways of thinking and doing business with real-world applications and results

  • Lean Certification not only helps you attain the knowledge, it validates it.
  • Learn more about Lean, and how Lean Certification can help individuals and organizations gain a competitive advantage.
  • The Standard in Operational Excellence

CSQ is an Endorser of the Lean Certification Program. Lean Certification validates your knowledge of and experience with lean principles. Lean Certification offered by the Lean Certification Alliance — Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME), Shingo Institute, and SME – is a global, industry-recognized professional credential.

About the Canadian Society for Quality

Vision

To be the catalyst organization in Canada that invites quality practitioners, organizations, and associations to pool their collective research and knowledge in the relentless pursuit of performance excellence.

Mission

To share quality improvement related research and knowledge with practitioners and to strengthen their understanding of quality tools and techniques that enhances positive work results and promotes organizational excellence.

Core Values

• Learn – from one another;
• Share – quality tools and techniques;
• Celebrate – the positive contribution that quality makes to work processes, organizations, and communities.

Programs and Services

• Membership – complimentary membership for quality practitioners; partnerships with associations and quality societies from around the world;
• Publications – complementary quarterly newsletter for members, research papers journals and magazine publications, quality improvement related educational materials;
• Annual Conference – annual Canadian Quality Congress held in major cities across Canada; Research – link to academics and projects at universities, colleges and other major research centers across Canada and around the world;
• Advocacy – educate and influence policy and decision makers on the contribution that quality improvement makes to organizations, communities, and to the nation in general.

Canadian Quality Congress in the Past