「Quality Next」– Evolution of Quality opens the Future
(Presentation Outline)
As part of the main theme of ICQ2025, "Quality Next – Evolution of Quality opens the Future," a Fireside Chat will be held with three distinguished speakers and a coordinator. Together with business leaders who have achieved excellence in the field of quality worldwide, we will explore the future direction of quality. This session will cover a variety of topics, including quality challenges in various industries, the fostering of quality culture for the future, practical examples, and the roles of business leaders and managers. It will provide a platform to share concrete perspectives on how to respond to challenges such as digital transformation, sustainability, and changing customer expectations.
Profile
A Norwegian national aged 52 years old, Dag Kroslid is the Chief Executive Officer of NorDan Gruppen AS (www.nordangruppen.no). The NorDan Group has revenues of 400 mEUR, with 32 sales offices and 12 factories across northern Europe. The company has 2,300 employees and entities in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the U.K., Ireland, Poland, Lithuania and China.
In December 2022, Mr. Kroslid became an academician of the International Academy for Quality. He is also a member of the board of the Swedish Institute for Quality (SIQ). In June 2023, he was honoured with the European Quality Leader award for 2022/2023 from the European Organisation for Quality.
He joined NorDan from a position as SVP Manufacturing at Norsafe AS, where he was responsible for all the group's factories and production activities in Norway, China, Brazil and Greece. From 2010-2011 Kroslid was a Senior Associate at Booz & Company (www.booz.com) in Stuttgart, Germany, where he was a part of the Operations practice and Manufacturing team.
Before that he was the Chief Operating Officer of Metallkraft International AS, with responsibility for operations in Norway, China and Singapore. Metallkraft serves wafer manufacturers in the Solar PV industry. From 2004 to 2010 Kroslid was the Vice-President Manufacturing in the NorDan Group.
Dag Kroslid holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering and Management from Linköping University in Sweden. As part of the PhD studies, international research on strategies and practices relating to performance excellence of leading enterprises was conducted in more than 20 countries. Dag Kroslid has been a visiting researcher at Seoul National University in South Korea and the University of St Gallen in Switzerland. On invitation from Chinese government organisations and universities, Kroslid has regularly given seminars in China. Dag Kroslid is co-author of “Six Sigma – The Pragmatic Approach” along with Kjell Magnusson and Bo Bergman, published in Chinese, English, German and Spanish. He has also published books, articles and given speeches on 5S, Lean, Digitalization and Sustainability.