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 13th 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.
