HKIMI seminar on Developing Innovation Competence through Life-long Learning cum Kick-off Ceremony

Hong Kong Innovation Management Institute (香港創新管理學院) (HKIMI) and Global Innovation Management Institute (GIMI) co-organized a seminar named “Developing Innovation Competence through Life-long Learning” cum “Kick-off Ceremony & Innovative Leader Development Forum”.  I (Chairman, HKSQ) was honor to be invited by Mr. David T.W. Chung (President, HKIMI) to join this seminar and ceremony.

 I met many friends and took a photo for memory.  Dr. Victor Lo (President, ISIHK) and I took a photo.

I took a photo with Mr. Daniel KF Choi (Programme Development Manager, SCOPE, CityU).

I also met Mr. Edmond Fung (GM, Training Service and Market Research, HKQAA), Ms. Miranda Kwan (Director, Certification and Business Enhancement, SGS HK Ltd.) and representative of GIMI. 

I met the speaker Dr. Hitendra Patel (Director, GIMI) and took a photo for memory.

In the beginning, Mr. David T.W. Chung (President, HKIMI) gave welcome speech and introduced the innovation management professional to promote innovation in Hong Kong.

Then they took a group photos.

The first speaker was Dr. Hitendra Patel (Director, GIMI) and this topic included “Why Innovate?”, “Generating Big Ideas”, “Making it Real” and “Monday Morning”.  

Dr. Patel said change was inevitable and became faster and faster. He raised some examples such as Apple iPhone killed Nokia and Motorola mobile.  Forces of the future were summarized as Greenovate, Connectivate, Healthovate and Robovate.

Then Dr. Patel quoted Steve Jobs connecting dots to explain the more dot connected the bigger idea created.  He also said Steve Jobs connected dots and created whole picture faster than others.

After that he showed the real innovation journey and explained the innovation was a disciplined management process as follows:

i)                    Use trends to see the future

ii)                  Get more and better dots

iii)                Connect the dot in new ways

iv)                Explore, iterate and finish with team and partner.

He also used football leader to explain that leaders needed to keep the ball on your feet (near term) and to look around for “What if” and “What’s Next” (long term). 

Finally, he introduced HKIMI and GIMI Innovator certificate from Level 1 to Level 4.

The second speaker was Dr. Louis Ma (Director, School of Continuing and Professional Education, CityU) and he would like to share the “Success Factors in HK/GBA/BRI”, “Examine Business & Technology Innovation” and “Life-long Development in Innovation & Leadership”.  

Firstly, he briefed Hong Kong’s four major pillars and 6 potential industries.

Then Dr. Ma discussed the innovation in Banking belongs to business-driven or technology-driven or both.

And then he mentioned to integrate Business and Technology Innovation with high business value and high technology value. He also stated some innovation through disruptive technologies included AI, Blockchain, Cloud computing, Big Data analytics, e-Business & e-Learning, Fintech, 5G, Hypermedia and IoT, etc.

Lastly, Dr. Ma explained innovative and entrepreneurial leadership could be trained through life-long learning and adaptation. He also use CPD to indicate the innovative leader facilitated group and organization as follows:

C – Core knowledge & skills for individuals & groups

P – Professional / Leadership competence development

D – Dynamic knowledge & skills!

After the seminar, we went to the Kick-off Ceremony & Innovative Leader Development Forum.  In the beginning, Mr. Inno Man (Dean, HKIMI) gave welcome speech.  

Dr. Bernard Chan Pak-li, JP (Under Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development, HKSAR Government) gave a guest speech. He raised some pain points of companies about competing talents. Dr. Chan encouraged to use design thinking and people centric approach to create innovative idea and solution.  He also mentioned CreateHK using funding as design thinking arm for assisting industry. 

Kick-off Ceremony and presented golden plaque for the cooperation between HKIMI and GIMI

Then the forum entitled “Developing an innovative advantage for Hong Kong” was chaired by Mr. David Chung. David asked why innovation and what made HK more innovative, as well as, what is enabler and barrier of innovation. I would like to summarize some key discussion points for sharing below.

Dr. Louis Ma said innovation generated values and it was a new opportunity in south China.  He added one of barrier was our legal system that behind the innovation era. Enabler could be feasibility in financial sector and created value by innovation. Trial and error, and its enabler was fast such as DJI Camera Drones.

Dr. Hitendra Patel said silicon valley and Boson could be here because Hong Kong would be the leader of Asia and changed the China competition.  He advised us to travel to different places with different cultures so as to cooperate with them and selected the right direction.  He said “You are the barrier”. Trial and error, don’t affair losing face.  He said technology was enabler to success.

Mr. Lim said human-centric thinking was important and “learning by doing” he proposed.  The success factor was to address value proposition.

Reference:

HKIMI – https://hkimi.org

GIMI – https://www.giminstitute.org

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