HKSQ & HKQAA - Achievement Release Conference

HKSQ applied the Trade and Industry Department (TID) Funded project named “Feasibility Study on the Quality of Hong Kong Start-up Development for Supporting the Sustainable Business Growth” and HKQAA is our implementation agent. After completed the last stage - sharing workshops and developed good practice guidelines for startup, achievement release conference was performed on 13^th Sep 2022. Group photo of all guest speakers was taken in the beginning.

Ms. Yubo Ho (HKQAA) is MC of the conference and introduced all guest speakers for their sharing talk.

Ms. Meico Cheong (HKQAA) is the first speaker and she briefed the background of the TID funded project and introduced HKSQ and HKQAA to the participants.

Then she introduced the overall project item contents including promotion seminars, online survey, in-depth interview, workshops and good practice guideline for startup.

Finally, Ms. Cheong briefed survey results description statistics and characteristic as well as weakness identification such as no sales and budget plan, no knowledge on management, etc.

I was the second speaker and introduced HKSQ mission and 35 years milestones for supporting industry quality development. 

Then I briefed the background of the story for assisting startup with HKQAA in HKSTP since 2012. And then we contacted different stakeholders in Hong Kong. We got very positive support from them so as to encourage us for applying TID fund.

After that I shared the data analysis and findings from 150 online survey and 50 in-depth interviews. There are six key factors identified and they are i) ISO Understanding Factor, ii) MS Enhancement Factor, iii) Customer Focus Factor, iv) Business Growth Factor, v) Challenge Factor and vi) Compressive Ability Factor.  Finally, four key challenge factors were found through in-depth interviews and they are i) level of sales achieved, ii) brand reputation, iii) hiring additional staff, and iv) seeking new market/customers.

Lastly, I proposed Quality Startup Management System (QStarMS) with six key factors and recorded in the guideline for sharing. This guideline will post into HKSQ TID funded website.

Startup sharing session:

The first startup named “Uppen Garden Limited” and founder was Mr. Martin Yeung (楊景輝). His company is blockchain startup and aims to be the first digital IP certification system in Hong Kong.

Mr. Yeung shared that in-depth interview help them to review their management practice for improvement. Finally, he expected the guideline could help startup management more effective and efficiency. Lastly, he also expected some guidelines for applying government fundings.

The second startup named “Master Master Technology Company Limited” and the found was Mr. Tik Man Tyler Cheng (鄭迪珉). His business aimed to form Biochemical Technology Research and Consultation Centre (BTRCC). He focused on three pain points and they were “challenging technology transfer process”, “insufficient R&D atmosphere” and “hard to promote the products from companies”.

The third company was “Elsyung Consulting Limited” and the founder was Ms. Elsie Yung (翁慧雯). She is HR professional and established consulting company to help SME and startup.  Firstly, she pointed out 7 HR management challenges in startup as follows:

i)                   Recruitment Plan and Effectiveness

ii)                 Establishment of Employer Branding

iii)               Pay attention to Employee Training

iv)               Ensure Fair Reward

v)                  Ensure Employee’s Performance

vi)               Keep Entrepreneurship Thinking

vii)             Incubate Enterprise Culture

Then she introduced the in-depth evaluation which cooperated with HKQAA through different standards. Finally, Ms. Yung mentioned ten HR core scope including Compliance, HR planning, Employer-employee relationship, Recruitment, Staff engagement, Salary, Staff performance, Talent management, HR data analysis and Strategic Planning. 

The last startup was “Couple'S HK” and the founder was Mr. Chan Wing Kin (陳穎健). He introduced his business to help couples having better relationship. Then he shared three items on innovate & create opportunities.

Mr. Chan briefed their platform manual which connected to different website, apps, and social media, etc. Lastly, he raised the team members to pursue a common dream.

After the conference, I on behalf of HKSQ to present certificate to all startup participated in-depth interview and took a group photo.

Lastly, we all took a group photo in front of HKQAA brand.

Reference:

HKSQ - www.hksq.org

HKQAA - http://www.hkqaa.org/

TID SME Development Fund (SDF) - https://www.smefund.tid.gov.hk/english/tsf/sdf_background.html

Newspaper:

香港品質學會研究初創企業營運管理方面略有不足 - https://www.am730.com.hk/本地/香港品質學會研究初創企業營運管理方面略有不足/338197?utm_source=am730appshare&utm_medium=copy_link

【初創營商】研究：初企營運管理不足逾8成表示未來3年將拓展業務 - https://inews.hket.com/article/3352103?r=cpsdlc

研究指本港逾80%初創企業擬未來3年拓展業務 - http://www.hkcd.com/hkcdweb/content/2022/09/13/content_1363200.html

One of my relevant publication about startup named “Implementing the Quality Startup Management System model in Hong Kong: a case study” and posted at https://jqualityinnovation.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40887-017-0013-x .

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