Key areas of education and research programmes of the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Maribor are people, processes and information. Similar directions are also explored by the faculties and institutions around the world because these issues are universal categories. Practitioners are constantly faced with numerous problems relating to people, their organization and information technology. Solutions to these problems are often very complex and interdisciplinary. However, sometimes the solutions are very simple, but that does not mean that the solving process is also trivial. Researchers, aside of their laboratory also need challenges and incentives to apply their achievements in everyday of real organizations.

This conference enables the exchange of good practices as well as introduction with the potentials of emerging methods and approaches. Networking opportunities, sharing of experiences, presentations of challenges and solutions, reached activities for students and ultimately a very comfortable environment, have already convinced participants from many institutions and countries.

I am looking forward to your participation at the conference and I hope that the conference will meet and exceed your expectations.

on behalf of the conference programme committee
Robert Leskovar, PhD