{"id":22495,"date":"2023-10-23T20:00:19","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/isem\/?post_type=nus-news&#038;p=22495"},"modified":"2023-10-30T12:56:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T04:56:27","slug":"ishikawa-kano-gold-medal-ika-gold-award","status":"publish","type":"nus-news","link":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/isem\/news\/ishikawa-kano-gold-medal-ika-gold-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Ishikawa-Kano Gold Medal (IKA-Gold) award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 18 October, Prof Goh Thong Ngee received the <strong>Ishikawa-Kano Gold Medal (IKA-Gold)<\/strong> award during the <a href=\"https:\/\/anq2023.org.vn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2023 Asian Quality Network (ANQ) Congress<\/a>, hosted by Vietnam Quality Association of Ho Chi Minh city. This award is given to professionals from the field of quality management who made unique contributions to the cause of quality through work in development of theory, application and dissemination of quality principles, concepts and methods over at least 25 years in at least 3 countries. Only one award is given every 2 to 3 years. The IKA-Gold is the highest-level award of ANQ and amongst the highest in the world.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22497\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22497\" style=\"width: 754px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22497 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/isem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/10\/I-K-Gold-Medal-2023-TN-Goh-754x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"754\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/isem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/10\/I-K-Gold-Medal-2023-TN-Goh-754x1024.jpg 754w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/isem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/10\/I-K-Gold-Medal-2023-TN-Goh-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/isem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/10\/I-K-Gold-Medal-2023-TN-Goh-768x1043.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/isem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/10\/I-K-Gold-Medal-2023-TN-Goh-1132x1536.jpg 1132w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/isem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/10\/I-K-Gold-Medal-2023-TN-Goh.jpg 1256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 754px) 100vw, 754px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Shu Yamada, ANQ Chairman (left) , Prof Goh Thong Ngee, and Dr Nguyen Thanh Tung of\u00a02023 Congress (right)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22498 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/isem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/10\/IKA-Gold-Medal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"706\" height=\"731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/isem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/10\/IKA-Gold-Medal.jpg 706w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/isem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/10\/IKA-Gold-Medal-290x300.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 100vw, 706px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22499 size-large aligncenter\" style=\"font-weight: inherit\" src=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/isem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/10\/Ishikawa-Kano-Gold-Award-to-Prof-T-N-Goh-781x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"781\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/isem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/10\/Ishikawa-Kano-Gold-Award-to-Prof-T-N-Goh-781x1024.jpg 781w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/isem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/10\/Ishikawa-Kano-Gold-Award-to-Prof-T-N-Goh-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/isem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/10\/Ishikawa-Kano-Gold-Award-to-Prof-T-N-Goh-768x1007.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/isem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/10\/Ishikawa-Kano-Gold-Award-to-Prof-T-N-Goh-1171x1536.jpg 1171w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/isem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/10\/Ishikawa-Kano-Gold-Award-to-Prof-T-N-Goh-1562x2048.jpg 1562w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/isem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/10\/Ishikawa-Kano-Gold-Award-to-Prof-T-N-Goh-scaled.jpg 1952w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 781px) 100vw, 781px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 18 October, Prof Goh Thong Ngee received the Ishikawa-Kano Gold Medal (IKA-Gold) award during the 2023 Asian Quality Network (ANQ) Congress, hosted by Vietnam Quality Association of Ho Chi Minh city. This award is given to professionals from the field of quality management who made unique contributions to the cause of quality through work<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":22496,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"news_category":[],"class_list":["post-22495","nus-news","type-nus-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/isem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/isem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/isem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nus-news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/isem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/isem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22503,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/isem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22495\/revisions\/22503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/isem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/isem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/isem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=22495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}