Speyer quality competition

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The Speyer quality competition , which was held every two years from 1992 to 2005 , was launched in 1992 by Hermann Hill and Helmut Klages at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer .

The 1st Speyer Quality Competition in 1992 followed on from a project by the Canadian Court of Auditors on the subject of "Well performing organizations". Other international quality competitions such as the Malcolm Baldridge Quality Award in the USA or the European Quality Award were also taken into account. The guidelines DIN EN ISO 9000 ff. Were used for comparison from private management, and the initiatives of the communal community center for administrative management (KGSt) for the new control model and the Bertelsmann Foundation for the international and national network of reform-oriented municipalities from the public sector .

Since the 3rd Speyer Quality Competition in 1996, administrations from Austria and Switzerland have also been invited to take part in the competition. The Speyer quality competition has been financially supported by the Federal Ministry of the Interior in Germany, the Federal Chancellery in Austria and the Federal Ministry of Finance in Switzerland since 2002 .

The philosophy of the competition corresponds to build a pioneer and periodically change due to change management ( Change Management call). An idea is only considered worthy of an award if it has proven itself in practice.

In accordance with this objective, all organizations that wanted to check themselves whether they correspond to the model of a modern administration and have top performance in individual fields were invited to participate. The competition participants also had the opportunity to compare themselves with others. So they got to know their own strengths and weaknesses, were able to present their own strengths to the outside world and received suggestions from other top administrations.

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