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Singapore Quality Award
      
Launched in 1994 with the Prime Minister as its patron, the Singapore Quality Award (SQA) is the most prestigious award conferred on organisations that demonstrate the highest standards of business excellence. The Award aims to establish Singapore as a country committed to world-class business excellence.

The SQA is the highest accolade given to organisations for business excellence. The Award is conferred upon the “best of the best” in recognition of their attainment of world-class standard of performance excellence. The Award supports SPRING’s business excellence initiative which provides organisations with a framework to develop and strengthen their management systems and processes to achieve high performance and be more competitive.


Singapore Quality Award with Special Commendation (For Past SQA Winners Only)



Past SQA winners can apply for the SQA with Special Commendation at least 5 years after winning the SQA .The SQA with Special Commendation, launched in 2006, recognises past SQA winners for scaling greater heights of business excellence and for demonstrating sustainable global leadership in key business areas, products or services than when they won the SQA. Applicants need to demonstrate that they are recognised as benchmarks by international organisations. For more information, please refer to the SQA Criteria. Updated!




Global Excellence Model (GEM) Council

The Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board (SPRING Singapore) is a member of Global Excellence Model (GEM) Council. Other members of this council include administrators of the US Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the European Quality Award, the Australian Business Excellence Award, the Japan Quality Award and the South African Excellence Award. Being the administrator of the SQA, SPRING Singapore's affiliation with the GEM council ensure that the SQA framework reflects the world's best validated management principles and practices. 

SQA in Relation to Other International Awards

The business excellence model underpinning the SQA is based on universally accepted standards that are found in the US Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the European Quality Award and the Australian Business Excellence Award, the Japan Quality Award and the South African Excellence Award. As a symbol of world-class business excellence, the SQA encourages organisations to strengthen their management systems and capabilities to enhance their competitiveness. 

Award Criteria Purposes

The SQA criteria form the basis for the evaluation and feedback to applicants on their performance. The criteria promote :

  • Understanding of the requirements for business and organisational excellence
  • Enhancement of organisational performance practices and capabilities
  • Sharing of best practice information among organisations
For more information, please view Briefing Slides on the BE Awards and the following links :

Contact Details

For general enquiries, please contact the EnterpriseOne Hotline at Tel: (65) 6898 1800 or email enterpriseone@spring.gov.sg.
 
For other enquiries or application matters, please contact the Business Excellence Secretariat:
2 Bukit Merah Central #19-00
Singapore 159835
Email : be@spring.gov.sg
Tel : (65) 6279 3811
Fax : 6273 0151, 6278 3181

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Singapore Quality Award
 




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Last updated on 01 Apr 2009
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