Innovation
is critical to every organization in competitive market and sustainability is a
key driver of innovation. Therefore, SGS
Academy organized a seminar named “How Sustainability Sparks Innovation?” to
give a grasp of the importance of incorporating sustainability into innovation
processes within an organization as well as effective way to evaluate and to
foster innovative process and thinking respectively. I took a photo with two speakers for memory.
(Left: Mr.
David T.W. Chung (Principal Consultant, InnoEdge Consulting Ltd.), I and Mr.
Jacky S.F. Yeung (Project Manager, SGS))
The different obstacles in different level of organization were discussed as below diagram. Then Mr. Jack Yeung briefed some cases to study how important of innovation such as Nokia and Apple.
Then he pointed out innovation was part of Corporate Sustainability (CSR) that Responsibility plus Accountability equal to Sustainability and Ability.
After that Mr. Jacky Yeung quoted Delottie report (2013) that sustainability driven innovation harnessing sustainability’s ability to spark innovation. And then he briefed some business opportunities / trends such as AI, VR, Shared Economy, Big Data, One Belt One Road, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Bay Area Development, Hong Kong/Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Park, CEPA and Green Finance, etc.
Finally, he employed Hung Fong Tong as case study and discussed how their innovation transformation to produce different close market products. He also demonstrated the good management element and cause analysis based on Entrepreneurs’ spirit, Flexible management, One mind, Innovative thinking and Sales strategy. Management elements included Leadership, HR management, Policy and strategy, Resources, Workflow, Innovation and learning.
Lastly,
Mr. Jacky Yeung said business innovation management system acted as compass and
introduced the CEN/TS 16555-1: 2013 Innovation Management System. SGS would provide 1 day on-site audit for
diagnosis of business innovation. After
the assessment, a comprehensive executive summary report would be provided for continuous
improvement.
Mr. David T.W. Chung (Principal Consultant, InnoEdge Consulting Ltd.) was the second speaker and his presentation title named “Fostering Innovative Thinking and Culture for Sustainable Business Growth”. Mr. David Chung’s talk included three parts and they were Innovation Thinking Approach, Innovation Process Formation and Innovation Culture Transformation.
Firstly, Mr. David Chung asked us what was the different between Creativity and Innovation thinking and then he quoted the definition from CEN/TS 16555-1: 2013 that “Innovation thinking is an iterative, repeatable approach to explore problem and opportunities in order to identify significantly better solution and anticipate future needs. There were four key words and they were “Problem”, “Opportunities”, “Better Solution” and “Future Needs”.
Then Mr. David Chung raised different innovation cases in Hong Kong to explain problem and opportunity such as Molala company’s Floral Balloon Surprise Box, Fashion app, mobile to take photo for black people. After that he used the CEN/TS 16555-1: 2013 innovation management standard’s idea funnel to demonstrate how idea from innovation thinking transferred to innovation management process.
He added
that the first step should be started at Innovation Result and then back to the
Idea Management. There were many tools
for ideas management which showed in the following diagram.
After
that he mentioned to assess the result of the innovation process. There were two types of KPIs that one was financial
indicators and the other was non-financial indicators. For non-financial
indicators could include “No. of ideas through the innovation process”, “Efficiency
of processes”, “Impact in the number of employees”, “IP, HR relationship” and “Ecological
and social sustainability”, etc.
Lastly, Mr.
David Chung said the conversion rate of innovation management process was very
important. However, some hidden factors
affected the conversion rate such as staff mindset and culture. So that he suggested top management to
support the innovation culture through “Idea support”, “Communication”, “Collaboration
Encouragement”, “Conflict Consciousness” and “Failure Tolerance”. He also warned us that two words usually
killed innovation were “Prove It” (from HBR).
The last factor was failure tolerance that “failure” did not equal to “wrong”.
After
the seminar, we chatted with speakers. I
encouraged them to promote more about Innovation Management System to the
industry. I was the first one to provide
one speech on CEN/TS 16555-1: 2013 in Hong Kong since Jan 2015 and then
presented the integrated quality and innovation management system, as well as,
different innovation tools (e.g. TRIZ and Extenics) in different international
conference worldwide. Moreover, I was
the first one and only one Hong Kong observer to ISO/TC 279 Innovation
Management for ISO 50501 and its series.
Reference:
SGS Academy
– http://www.sgs.com/en/solutions/sgs-academy
My relevant talk about CEN/TS 16555-1: 2013 in HK:
20150124:
HKSTP & HKSQ Seminar on System Approach to Innovative Management - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2015/01/hkstp-hksq-seminar-on-system-approach.html
20150730:
Towngas CPD Seminar - Quality & Innovation Management System - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2015/07/towngas-cpd-seminar-quality-innovation.html
20160618:
CityU EngD Society Discovery & Innovation Seminar and AGM 2016 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2016/06/cityu-engd-society-discovery-innovation.html
20160722:
IIE(HK) Innovation Talk on CIEDH & IISEAsia 2016 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2016/07/iiehk-innovation-talk-on-ciedh-iiseasia.html
20160728:
TRIZfest 2016 – Day 1 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2016/07/trizfest-2016-day-1.html
(In Beijing)
20161007:
CUHK Guest Lecture for Innovation Management and HKSQ Membership Drive - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2016/10/cuhk-guest-lecture-for-innovation.html
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