HKAI – Productivity & Quality – Award Preparation Meeting 2015

Hong Kong Society for Quality (HKSQ) is applying the Hong Kong Awards for Industries (HKAI) - Productivity and Quality 2015 for celebrating the 30th Anniversary of HKSQ in 2016. The preparation meeting is held on 11 July 2015. In my previous article introduced different Quality Awards but HKAI was the most recognized awards organized by HKSAR government. In last year, ASQ awarded the Excellence level of achievement for the 2014 Wisconsin Forward Award and then I wrote an article named “The Professional Society’s Organization Excellence Journey” to analyze our society performance based on Malcom Baldrge National Quality Award Criteria. I submitted the application information to the organizer on 26th Jun 2015 and then we needed to prepare presentation in July 2015. Therefore, the draft presentation file had been discussed in this preparation meeting.

We were discussed the new criteria of HKAI - Productivity and Quality. In the past, it employed Malcom Baldrge National Quality Award Criteria which productivity projects. This year was changed and simplified as follows:
Management Support (10%)
- How the senior management initiates the productivity and quality improvement programs, and supports the running of the programs on a continuous basis?
Project Planning and Execution (25%)
- How the management team and operation team plan, implement, review, measure the productivity and quality improvement programs and response to the environmental changes during the implementation stage?
Company Competitiveness (25%)
- How the productivity and quality improvement programs create values, culture, changes and resources optimization in the company for enhancing the competitiveness of the company as a whole?
Measurable Achievements (25%)
- What are the measurable productivity achievements and quality achievements achieved via the productivity and quality improvement programs?
Impact to the Industry (15%)
- How the productivity and quality improvement programs set a trend to other players or even transform the industry practices in realizing productivity and quality enhancement as a whole?

Finally, we took a group photos included HKSQ exco members and co-op members.
(Left: Ms. Minda Chiang, I, Dr. KS Chin, Mr. Karson Chui, Mr. Peter Fung, Mr. Ricky Suen, Dr. Albert Tsang and Dr. Aaron Tong; *where Ms. Angela Wong left early)

Reference:
HKSQ - www.hksq.org
Hong Kong Awards for Industries - Productivity and Quality - http://www.hkindustryaward.org/en/award_categories/pq.html
ASQ InfVoices - Hong Kong Quality Awards & Programs - http://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2013/04/asq-infvoices-hong-kong-quality-awards.html
ASQ InfVoices – The Professional Society’s Organization Excellence Journey - http://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2014/06/asq-infvoices-professional-societys.html
Seminar on Quality Excellence Model - MBNQA & EFQM - http://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2012/11/seminar-on-quality-excellence-model.html