As the Asia-Pacific Center of Excellence (COE) for quality, APQO work towards encouraging and recognizing quality professionals and organizations. The International Asia Pacific Quality Award (IAPQA) of the APQO has been launched from 2000. In the same year, APQO International Individual Awards has been introduced. Name of the International Asia Pacific Quality Award (IAPQA) has been changed to Global Performance Excellence Award (GPEA) in 2010.

The GPEA (introduced in 2000 as IAPQA) is the only formal international recognition of performance or business excellence. The program is administered by the APQO. In 2010, the name of this prestigious global award was changed from IAPQA to GPEA to reflect the evolution in the field of quality from a focus on product and service quality to a strategic focus encompassing overall organizational performance termed performance / organizational / business excellence. The GPEA endeavors to bridge the cultural geographic and economic system gap of National Quality Awards (NQA).

APQO International Individual Awards (AIIA) were introduced in 2000 to recognize deserving Individuals.

Considering the diversity and spread of APQO membership, APQO do not practice of naming its awards after individuals. However, would support this when and where an individual has played a significant role directly for APQO e.g. founder, linked directly to APQO as an organisation. This is to keep the award exclusive and meaningful for APQO in recognising worthy role models after whom the award is named as there are many role models all over the world.

ACE is a highly participative and interactive team excellence competition designed to recognise teams that demonstrate common values and goals imparting a powerful sense of shared purpose where they combine talents and skills to achieve new levels of performance.

APQO welcome teams from all member countries and organizations just starting out to those with more matured systems. The ACE applies to teams from public sector, not for profit or from any industry or size of organization.

Today Innovation is a lifeline for almost every organization public or private to remain competitive. To help APQO Organizations and its members leverage on innovation, it is imperative that APQO introduce an initiative to enables its members successfully embark and thrive on their innovation journey. To make this a reality APQO has introduced the AIC Self –Assessment programme to help our members and their customers / partners conduct self-assessment to understand their strengths and recognize their opportunities for success.

APQO International Best Practice (AIBP) introduced in 2019, will provide opportunity to GPEA Applicants to participate at competition for recognition of Best Practices and share their best practices at APQO International Conference held annually. All GPEA Applicants are invited to participate in this competition for recognition of Best Practices.

In organizations, good governance starts with the board of directors. The board's role and legal obligation is to oversee the management of the organization and ensure that the organization delivers its mission. Effective board members monitor, guide, participate and enable good management; they do not do it by themselves. The board generally has decision-making powers regarding matters of policy, direction, strategy, and governance of the organization.