HKQF the 11th TIC-ITAC Meeting

The 11^th meeting of Industry Training Advisory Committee for Testing, Inspection & Certification Industry (TIC-ITAC) under Hong Kong Qualification Framework (HKQF) was held on 9^th Jun 2020.  I was honor to be assigned as one of members in TIC-ITAC for past ten years and would continue to contribute in TIC field.  

In the beginning, Mr. Felix Chan (Chairperson, HKTIC) and Mr. Raymond Wong (Vice Chairperson) co-chaired the meeting to review HKQF TIC-ITAC activities.

OUHK representative reported the situation of Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) in Testing, Inspection and Certification (TIC) Industry.

At the end, we took a group photo for memory. I also shared my new book named “Extenics: Logic of Innovation” to committee members.

Reference:

Testing, Inspection and Certification Industry Training Advisory Committee (ITAC) - https://www.hkqf.gov.hk/tic/en/home/index.html

Members of Testing, Inspection and Certification Industry Training Advisory Committee (ITAC) at https://www.hkqf.gov.hk/tic/en/itac/index.html

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20111130: The 2nd meeting of TIC ITAC - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2011/11/2nd-meeting-of-tic-itac.html

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Extenics Channel: Class 17 –Non-material and Material Conjugation

Extenics Channel is a new YouTube Channel for promoting Extenics and issued on 12^th Feb 2020. It separated into three video list for Cantonese, English and Mandarin.  Class video will be uploaded at least once per week. Each video contains one article of my book to promote the Extenics and Extension Innovation Method. 

可拓頻道 Extenics Channel (English)

Class 17 Nonmaterial and Material Conjugation

Introduction to the second step of 4-steps Extension Innovation Method - Nonmaterial and Material Conjugation Analysis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DljXG3Y04gY

可拓頻道 Extenics Channel (Cantonese)

第十七集 虛則實之

介紹可拓創新四步法的第二步:拓展 (2)-虛實共軛

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNIjNGqUZq0

可拓頻道 Extenics Channel (Mandarin)

第十七集 虚则实之

介绍可拓创新四步法的第二步:拓展 (2)-虚实共轭

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BewHNQI_84E

可拓頻道 Extenics Channel – Video Play List

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6S_oALZVBluJ7cnbE6ub0A/playlists

Reference:

20200213: CityU Alumni Story for promoting Extenics & New Extenics Channel in YouTube - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2020/02/cityu-alumni-story-for-promoting.html

Class	Extenics Topic	English	Cantonese	Mandarin
1	Extension Quality (可拓品質量)	V1e	V1c	V1m
2	Quality & Innovation (至善日新)	V2e	V2c	V2m
3	Method First (方法先行)	V3e	V3c	V3m
4	Extension Set (合格不合格)	V4e	V4c	V4m
5	Matter Element (化物開元)	V5e	V5c	V5m
6	Affair Element (功能賦元)	V6e	V6c	V6m
7	Relation Element (元元緊扣)	V7e	V7c	V7m
8	Creative Idea Generation (創意生成)	V8e	V8c	V8m
9	Product Innovation (產品創新)	V9e	V9c	V9m
10	Start from Modeling (建模入手)	V10e	V10c	V10m
11	Extension Analysis (拓展無極限)	V11e	V11c	V11m
12	Divergence Tree (六脈神劍)	V12e	V12c	V12m
13	Correlative Network (魚網千絲)	V13e	V13c	V13m
14	Implication Analysis (蘊含關係)	V14e	V14c	V14m
15	Opening-up Analysis (可分可合)	V15e	V15c	V15m
16	Conjugate Analysis (天龍八部)	V16e	V16c	V16m
17	Nonmaterial and Material Conjugation (虛則實之)	V17e	V17c	V17m

Minitab Webinar - The Age of Analytics: Data Driven Insights in the Services Industry

The Webinar named “The Age of Analytics: Data Driven Insights in the Services Industry” was organized by Minitab on 3^rd Jun 2020. In the beginning, Ms. Iza Ng (Business Development Manager, TechMax) introduced today’s speaker Dr. Scott Kowalski.

Dr. Scott Kowalski (Advisory Technical Training Specialist, Minitab) was key speaker today and he is major in Statistics.  He said 87% of global businesses though data is the key to new business growth, delivering better results for customer, and the foundation for making important business decisions.

He briefed the Data Driven Insights from operational environment to data to information and then to intelligence.  Data alone is not intelligence. It needed to be employed for modeling and enable people made smart decision.

Then Dr. Scott Kowalski briefed what is Data Analytics that included four stages. They are Descriptive, Diagnostic, Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics.

After that Dr. Scott shared Healthcare research employed Predictive Analytics using Minitab. He would like to reduce the number of resident falls and collected a series of data sets.

Simply, Pareto Chart was employed and found that the high frequency of resident falls on 4:00am and 2:00am.  

And then he introduced data about Service that data-driven decision could reduce cost and enhance efficiency, as well as, quality of business.

Dr. Scott used predictive equation (based on regression) for Banking Example.

Finally, Dr. Scott briefed the Machine Learning that separated into Unsupervised Learning (Clustering) and Supervised Learning (Classification & Regression).  

The key of Machine Learning is used 70% of data as training set and 30% of data as test set.  If 100% of data use for training set that model will be over-fit.

Lastly, Tree-based machine learning new menu was introduced for predictive analytics (e.g. CART® Classification; CART® Regression).

At the end, Ms. Iza Ng invited us to join the coming Webinar Wednesday for Machine Learning Series at https://info.minitab.com/resources/webinars/webinar-Wednesdays-apac .

Reference:

Minitab – www.minitab.com

20181207: Minitab Seminar on Gearing Up for Industry 4.0 - Machine Learning for Manufacturing Performance - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2018/12/minitab-seminar-on-gearing-up-for.html

20181117: HKSQ/Minitab/TQM Seminar on Asset Management and Reliability: Machine Learning + AI - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2018/11/hksqminitabtqm-seminar-on-asset.html

20180712: Minitab Seminar on “Machine Learning enhance Product Reliability from Prediction to Execution” - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2018/07/minitab-seminar-on-machine-learning.html

20170901: Minitab Seminar on “Data driven Business toward Excellence” - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2017/09/minitab-seminar-on-data-driven-business.html

20170803: Minitab Workshop “Boost Customer Satisfaction” - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2017/08/minitab-workshop-boost-customer.html

20131022: HKSQ Seminar "Using DOE in Service Quality" - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2013/10/hksq-seminar-using-doe-in-service.html

InnoEdge Executive Webinar - Innovating Your Business in the New Normal

Executive Webinar named “Innovating Your Business in the New Normal – The way to overcome COVID-19” was organized by InnoEdge Consulting on 3^rd Jun 2020.  Ms. Kristie Yeung (InnoEdge) as MC introduced two speakers Dr. Hitendra Patel (Managing Director of the IXL Centre) and Mr. David Chung (Senior Partner, InnoEdge Consulting).

Dr. Hitendra Patel (Managing Director of the IXL Centre) was the first speaker and his presentation named“Innovating Your Business in the New Normal”.  Firstly, he introduced Global Innovation Management (GIM) Institute Think Tank that they had been working on the COVID-19 pandemic.  Then he briefed social distancing is critical measures to control the Coronavirus infection. But shutdown and slowdown of governments, corporations, small business, non-profits and institutions were killing economy. 

From shutdown to get back to business caused different scenarios.  Dr. Patel showed the diagram about economic and social chaos. In US, job losses were very serious (unemployment over 23.9%).

Then Dr. Patel said we would back to normal if we have vaccines, real-time testing or move our at-risk population into isolation and enough hospital beds.  However, Six-Feet-Apart solution (2 meter distance) may not be practicable. Therefore, GIM Institute Think Tank proposed innovative solutions including Touchless, DIY, Digital, Protected, Robot and Certified Clean that are safe to decrease fear and increase trust.

Mr. David Chung (Senior Partner, InnoEdge Consulting) was the second speaker and continued the topic to share practical cases (in China, HK and the world).

Innovative solutions were discussed below. 

1.    Touchless: Don’t let me touch any surfaces that others might have touched! (Shopping, Delivery)

2.    DIY: Just let me do it, so you don’t have to get close to me. (Farming, Cooking, etc.)

3.    Digital/Virtual: Being almost there without the commute and fear of someone sneezing on me!

4.    Protective Barriers: Give me a barrier that stops the virus from getting to me!

5.    Robot: Let the robot do the unsafe work while I supervise from far! (Doctor, Room Services, etc.)

6.    Certified Clean: Willing to work with certified clean (a) things or (b) people! (Immunity passport)

Finally, Dr. Hitendra Patel used persona to map the persona’s journey with the company and employed innovative solutions to control the risk in each process.  

Lastly, he asked what can you do? If your are a leader of SMEs, Big company and Industry Association.

At the end, whole team took a group photo to celebrate the success of this Webinar.

Reference:

InnoEdge - https://www.innoedge.com.hk/

Other related InnoEdge events:

20190816: HKSQ Seminar on Design Thinking for Quality Management - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2019/08/hksq-seminar-on-design-thinking-for.html

20190103: Insights for Innovation Management of HK Enterprises 2019 – Survey Announcement Day - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2019/01/insights-for-innovation-management-of.html

20181013: HKETA Symposium on Innovation & Technology 2018 (Part 1) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2018/10/hketa-symposium-on-innovation.html

20171111: HKIBI Seminar on “Development of Business Innovation Talent in Hong Kong” - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2017/11/hkibi-seminar-on-development-of.html

20170804: SGS Seminar on “How Sustainability Sparks Innovation” - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2017/08/sgs-seminar-on-how-sustainability.html

Extenics Channel: Class 16 – Conjugate Analysis

Extenics Channel is a new YouTube Channel for promoting Extenics and issued on 12^th Feb 2020. It separated into three video list for Cantonese, English and Mandarin.  Class video will be uploaded at least once per week. Each video contains one article of my book to promote the Extenics and Extension Innovation Method. 

可拓頻道 Extenics Channel (English)

Class 16 Conjugate Analysis

Introduction to the second step of 4-steps Extension Innovation Method – Conjugate Analysis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fky6O2zrNyQ

可拓頻道 Extenics Channel (Cantonese)

第十六集 天龍八部

介绍可拓创新四步法的第二步: 拓展 (2)-共軛分析方法

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUWBjdaQTao

可拓頻道 Extenics Channel (Mandarin)

第十六集 天龙八部

介绍可拓创新四步法的第二步: 拓展 (2)-共轭分析方法

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8TjlHHYAoc

可拓頻道 Extenics Channel – Video Play List

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6S_oALZVBluJ7cnbE6ub0A/playlists

Reference:

20200213: CityU Alumni Story for promoting Extenics & New Extenics Channel in YouTube - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2020/02/cityu-alumni-story-for-promoting.html

20200221: Extenics Channel: New YouTube Channel for introducing Extension Innovation Method - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2020/02/extenics-channel-new-youtube-channel.html

20200227: Extenics Channel: Class 1 to Class 3 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2020/02/extenics-channel-class-1-to-class-3.html

20200306: Extenics Channel: Class 4 – Extension Set - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2020/03/extenics-channel-class-4-extension-set.html

20200313: Extenics Channel: Class 5 – Matter Element - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2020/03/extenics-channel-class-5-matter-element.html

20200320: Extenics Channel: Class 6 – Affair Element - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2020/03/extenics-channel-class-6-affair-element.html

20200327: Extenics Channel: Class 7 – Relation Element - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2020/03/extenics-channel-class-7-relation.html

20200403: Extenics Channel: Class 8 – Creative Idea Generation - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2020/04/extenics-channel-class-8-creative-idea.html

20200410: Extenics Channel: Class 9 – Product Innovation - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2020/04/extenics-channel-class-9-product.html

20200417: Extenics Channel: Class 10 – Start from Modeling - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2020/04/extenics-channel-class-10-start-from.html

20200424: Extenics Channel: Class 11 – Unlimited Extension - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2020/04/extenics-channel-class-11-unlimited.html

20200501: Extenics Channel: Class 12 – Six-pulse Excalibur (六脈神劍) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2020/05/extenics-channel-class-12-six-pulse.html

20200508: Extenics Channel: Class 13 – Correlative Network - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2020/05/extenics-channel-class-13-correlative.html

20200514: Extenics Channel: Class 14 – Implication Analysis - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2020/05/extenics-channel-class-14-implication.html

20200514: Extenics Channel: Class 15 – Opening-up Analysis - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2020/05/extenics-channel-class-15-opening-up.html