CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR QUALITY

For the relentless pursuit of excellence

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;
Publications – complementary quarterly newsletter for members, 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.

Value Proposition

Our membership is comprised of quality practitioners across genres such as excellence frameworks, TQM, ISO, lean, and six sigma. These professionals use tools and techniques to improve work processes and overall performance in their organizations.
The Canadian Society for Quality (CSQ) invites all associations and quality practitioners across genres to join in the quest for excellence – to learn, share, and celebrate state-of-the-art research and knowledge that make a difference to work processes and organizations and that can collectively make a difference to communities and the nation.
In doing so, CSQ offers:
Value for practitioners – membership is complementary and members have an opportunity to learn about quality tools and techniques, share experiences, and celebrate successes.
Value for organizations – the synergy of quality professionals, organizations, and associations pooling their research and knowledge sets the stage for quantum leaps in work process improvement and organizational excellence.
Value for community – the link between academia and industry helps validate the impact that quality tools and techniques have on work processes, organizational performance, and productivity.

Objectives

The objectives of the Society, in brief, are:

(1) To promote the understanding of business excellence through quality improvement in products and services of all Canadian and other world’s organizations, big or small, public or private, profit or not-for-profit;

(2) To develop reports and other products and services which appeal to all organizations to assist in their understanding and development of business excellence fundamentals;

(3) To produce educational materials on quality philosophies, tools, techniques and methods along with case studies, success stories and so on to help develop and promote models of quality improvement suitable for specific business sectors;

(4) To exert positive influence on policy and decision makers at the local, national and international levels to help improvements in all sectors of global economy and general human prosperity;

(5) To arrange, provide for or join in arranging and providing for lectures, meetings, discussions, conferences, and educational courses on subjects of general and special interest in the field of quality and business excellence and to organize and publicize exhibitions and to promote and conduct any other educational activities (whether in Canada or elsewhere) in furtherance of the goals and objectives of the Society;

(6) To prepare, publish or arrange for the publication of books, journals, periodicals, pamphlets, brochures, bulletins, and other publications and to provide for their distribution;

(7) To promote, establish, maintain, and support or assist in the promotion, establishment, or maintenance of bodies, associations, institutions, schemes, trusts and funds having objectives similar to those of the Society;

(8) To cooperate with other national or international organizations having similar goals and objectives as those of the Society; and

(9) To solicit funds, grants and gifts or money and other property by way of addition to the funds of the Society to carry out its objectives.