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Introducing DaLa: Empowering Data Literacy Across Asia

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🎉 Introducing The Data Literacy Association (#DaLa) 🎉 ​

I’m proud to be the founding chairman of DaLa, a community-driven initiative that aims to empower organizations across Asia in their data literacy journey. ​

Data is the lifeblood of today’s digital world, and we believe that data literacy is crucial for driving innovation and making informed decisions. ​

At DaLa, we connect data leaders and data citizens across Asia to: ​
🔹 Share best practices and experiences ​
🔹 Foster collaboration and networking ​
🔹 Provide resources and learning opportunities ​

By joining our community, you can stay at the forefront of data-driven advancements and help shape the future of data literacy in Asia. ​

Don’t miss out! Discover more about DaLa
https://dalahk.org/
https://lnkd.in/gTsbD8ip

Become a member of DaLa
https://lnkd.in/gPzbeTmp

Let’s work together to harness the power of data for a better tomorrow! ​

#DataLiteracy #DaLa #EveryoneSpeaksData

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The 2nd Cohort of DLEP Programme in CEBHK

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Once again, users at all levels across departments demonstrated that they can make good use of data to create real impact to their customers and companies. We witnessed it once more in the China Everbright Bank Hong Kong Branch #CEBHK today.

Colleagues from different front, middle and back offices at CEBHK have gone through our Data Literacy Empowerment Programme #DLEP organized by Hong Kong Institute of Bankers #HKIB and OpenCertHub Academy #OCHA in the last few months. This was the 2nd cohort already at CEBHK. They were required to do a team project to pick a pain point in the company and use data to tackle the problem.

Today, they presented their projects to the CEBHK’s senior management Nancy Wu, Stephen Chang, Fanny Chan, Carrie Leung #HKIB, Dr. Victor Ng and myself from #OCHA. It was really impressive on not just the business impact created from their data initiatives but also the cross-team collaboration. Thank you so much for the team’s effort and the support from all senior management of CEBHK and Carrie.

In the last few months, Victor, Patrick Tsoi and I have provided a series of data literacy training, shared industry best practices, conducted hands-on workshops and provided mentorship for their team projects to the participants. We are so grateful to see that teams today can apply them so well in solving their real problems. From mindset, skillset to everyday use of data is our goal and we have seen this happening in CEBHK.

Special thanks to Fanny, Elaine and their teammates for their effort and trust to my team from the day 1 of our collaboration. Look forward to co-creating even more impact and values to CEBHK throughout our data literacy empowerment journey at CEBHK.

#DataLiteracy #DataCulture #DataMindset
OpenCertHub Academy
#BigData #AI
#CitizenDataScientist #DataCitizen

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D2Place – How Traditional Manufacturing Leader Transformed Itself

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Appreciate Rico Lau from LAWSGROUP to introduce and show me and my teammates Andy Kwok, Victor Ng and Derek Leung from OpenCertHub Academy about the Group’s creativity in various areas. It has really opened our eyes on how a traditional apparel manufacturing leader has successfully transformed themselves and been making a huge impact to the community. Impressive.

LAWSGROUP has turned the traditional buildings in old district Lai Chi Kok into vibrant and popular shopping, dining and entertainment co-creation spaces called “D2 Place” https://lnkd.in/g3MUvnpi with young #enterpreneurs. It empowers many young innovators to test out their products, pivot and scale up to real shops. I can feel the passion from not only the enterpreneurs but also the young customers there. Thank you Rico to have shown us around. I am sure there are a lot more to explore in these spaces and it is still evolving. Really appreciate the team effort from Rico, Leslie Fok, Miko Cheung and many others from LAWSGROUP to revitalize these spaces, empower #entrepreneurship and made many impossible to possible.

Rico also brought us to the Laws Knitters Studio 羅氏針織工作室 which not only shows the history of knitting but also provides a co-creation space for designers and manufacturers.
Riding on their ecosystem creativity, knitting products now have many varieties as shown on the photos. It can be personalized as well.

When I saw the traditional “#Singer #勝家” sewing home machine, it triggered a lot of memories on how my mom made clothes for me by her own hands from scratch when I was young while the economy has not taken off. Thank you mom and thank you Laws Group to build this studio for our collective memory.

Rico and I exchanged many good ideas on #Innovation, #DataLiteracy, #MetaVerse, #ESG, #SocialImpact, #Community #Cocreation, and more. Look forward to having even more collaboration with him and his teammates at LAWSGROUP in different areas in the Year of the Rabbit and beyond.

#Knitter #Creativity #D2Place
#LAWSGROUP #LawsKnitters
LAWSGROUP 羅氏集團
OpenCertHub Academy #OCHA

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My First Class In The Year Of The Rabbit

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My first class in the Year of the Rabbit was a demo class for CUHK EMBA. Really felt warm to see so many knowledge seekers f2f in our classroom. Good thing was that we kept it a hybrid mode where hundreds attended it online in parallel. That is our new normal for the future so more people can learn together even though they are still working or back home with their families.

In my capacity of CUHK EMBA Associate Director and Founding Chairman of Data Literacy Association, I talked about “Stay ahead of Your Conpetition: Treat Data as Your 2nd Business Language”. My key message is that business leaders need to use data daily as how they use English and Chinese for effective and compelling communication. Data is the Voice of our Customers and it is business through data monetization. Business users need to not just be data literate but also treat it as your competitive edge. Own it yourselves instead of just getting help from IT and Data teams. Building a sustainable data culture and empowering every employee with high Data Literacy are the secret sauce of leading enterprises in today’s Digital Economy.

Thanks for my EMBA student Chris So to have shared his learning experience as well as Rendy Ng. Appreciate all participants to have joined our session last night. Thanks to my EMBA colleagues to organize it as well Professor Pong Yuen, Howard Lam, Chun So, Ken Lin and many others.

#CUHKEMBA #EMBA
CUHK EMBA CUHK Business School
#DaLa DaLa – Data Literacy Association
#DataCulture #DataLiteracy
#AI #BigData
#DataCitizen #CitizenDataScientist

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HKIB Spring Lunch 春茗 for the Year of the Rabbit

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What a way to start the Year of the Rabbit with most of the bankers in Hong Kong! Thanks Hong Kong Institute of Bankers to organize such a great Spring Lunch 春茗 today in the Grand Hyatt Hotel. We used to have many CNY spring lunches or dinners in the banking industry but it was gone zero in the Covid period. We all enjoyed the f2f gathering again.

Appreciate the effort from Carrie Leung, Philip Kam and their teammates of #HKIB. Also, thanks to the great leadership from Mr David Kwok. Great to meet and have a chat with Legco Councillor (Financial Services) Hon Ronick Chan JP there as well.

As a strategic partner of HKIB on our Data Literacy Empowerment Programme or DLEP, we were so grateful to have a table there to host friends and partners of OpenCertHub Academy. Really feel warm to see many friends there and thanks for their presence in our table Kenny Au, Doris Tong, Barry Chan, Jacob Wai, FRM, FFA FIPA, FCMA, CSDP, MHKCS, LLM, MBA, 鄭嘉泓, Sunny Cheung, Patrick Khong, Jack NG, Edmund Lam and certainly my teammates Andy Kwok and Victor Ng. Also grateful to meet many friends in person and with joy Fanny Chan, Cheng Burton, Charlotte Wong, Michael Leung, Sammy Ho, Angela Lee, Ryan Fung and many more. It was cold outside but we had a warm gathering. Thank you.

#Banking #FinTech #AI #BigData
#OpenCertHubAcademy #OCHA
OpenCertHub Academy
#DataLiteracy #DLEP
#DataCulture #DataMindset

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Chat with Good Friend Herbert Chia 車品覺

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Grateful to have a chat with good friend Herbert Chia #車品覺 in my office. We are both enthusiastic and have like minds on data. Both of us have been in the data industry for many years and have been collaborating with lots of synergy.

We discussed plans for 2023 on how we can collaborate even closer to energize Hong Kong on data transformation from talents, data science to data literacy, data culture and data governance.

Herbert has formed the Hong Kong Data Club to empower more data experts and geeks while I founded Data Literacy Association to empower more business and operation leaders, professionals and executives to speak the language of data. We are perfectly synergetic and complementary to each other with a common goal to grow the data economy in Hong Kong.

Herbert has finished another great book called Data-driven Transformation with Allen Yeung. Thanks for giving me a copy with Herbert’s autograph. Both Andy Kwok and I learned a lot from Herbert’s previous books on data. This new one is in English. Lots of great and new inspiration there.

It was a very fruitful discussion. Stay tuned for our joint collaboration on empowering Hong Kong to be a data leader in 2023 and beyond.

In the meantime, we wish you a healthy, happy and successful Year of the Rabbit. Cheers.

#DataEconomy #DataLiteracy
#DataScience #DataLiteracy
#DataCulture #DataGovernance
#DataInnovation #DataMindset
#DaLa DaLa – Data Literacy Association
#DataClub

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Workshop: “Emerging Tech and Business Model Innovation”

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Patrick S Lee and I conducted a workshop on “Emerging Tech and Business Model Innovation” to the award winners and top-ranked companies in our 2022 CUHK Corporate Innovation Index #CII.
https://lnkd.in/drExMCJM

Where did we start the idea to hold a corporate innovation index for Hong Kong? Well, Patrick and I had a dinner 2 years ago and explored this idea to help Hong Kong companies innovate better and more competitively in the digital economy. That was how the CII started. You can learn more about CII and the top-ranked companies here. https://lnkd.in/gNYaN-hm

Thanks for all the participants to play “Ping Pong” or table tennis with me. I believe effective learning is through active two-way discussion rather than just lecturing. Appreciate our participants were so proactive and engaging to express their views and open for new ideas in our class. That is why they are the best of the best in our CII. We also learnt a lot through our discussions. Thank you.

We also had joys and tasted the Australian big cherries together. Thanks to two of our participants Mandy and Leo. It was really tasty.

My final recommendation to them is to keep their innovative and open mindset and make it to be the culture of their entire company. That will sustain their leadership in the future unforeseeable disruption in the digital age.

#CorporateInnovation #Entrepreneurship #Intrapreneurship #DataCulture #DataLiteracy #Innovation #Technology
#CUHK #APIB CUHK Business School

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Latest Events

Best HR Awards 2022

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Congratulations to all the winners of the Best HR Awards 2022 organized by CTGoodJobs. Grateful being one of the judges and speakers for the Awards again. My OpenCertHub Academy team fully supported the ceremony this year. Thanks Vivienne Wong, Shirley Pi, William Ho, Reo Lam and their teammates to organize such a great award ceremony. We enjoyed our great collaboration and teamwork with the CTGoodJobs team.

I particularly appreciate this Awards because it has pioneered quite a few award categories to encourage HR leaders to cultivate digital transformation and innovation initiatives and talent to their organizations.

In this year, Data Literacy Association #DaLa www.DaLaHK.org , which was founded by a number of data leaders and I to nurture data culture in large to small organizations, jointly with CTGoodJobs created a new category called Data Literacy Award. It aims to encourage establishing data culture and enabling pervasive use of data in organizations to unleash the power of data to every employee. Congratulations to The Bank of East Asia #BEA to receive the 1st ever Grand Award of this category in Hong Kong. Really appreciate the great team effort from their FinTech, Data and Training and Development teams. Congratulations Stephen L. Kenny Au, and Doris Tong. My OpenCertHub teammates are so fortune to collaborate with the BEA team to empower their colleagues at all levels of the bank to speak the language of data.

Also happy for many HR leaders in town like Fanny Chan from China Everbright Bank Hong Kong #CEBHK, Eliza Ng #HKPC, Edmund Lam #FubonBank, Derek Wu #LKK, and many others for their amazing achievement. Also good to see young leaders like CY Chan #ECHealthCare, Bobo Wong, Michelle Chan #Microsoft, Mingo Tsang #Bowtie and more. They are with bright minds and our future as well.

As I mentioned in my talk on “Data Literacy – Build Future-proof Workforce with Second Business Language”, Digital Transformation not only needs digital experts but also HR experts as change management and culture play a pivot role in its success. Teamwork between digital teammates and HR teammates are super important. Had a very good chat with Kandy Lui #iHRM and learnt a lot from her on the HR profession and it’s latest development. Also learnt from José Carlos Bezanilla on how to make Hong Kong a Great Place to Work #GPTW.

#HR #HumanResoures
#OpenCertHub OpenCertHub #OpenCertHubAcademy
OpenCertHub Academy
#BankOfEastAsia #BEA
#DataLiteracy #DataMindSet #DataCulture #DataStoryTelling
#AI #BigData #HRAnalytics #HR
#DigitalTransformation #ChangeManagement

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Training

DLEP Programme @Bank of East Asia

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My belief is that empowering people to do fishing is always better than serving them fish all the time. Our data and IT professionals have been doing a great job to help busness users to prepare reports and analytics so that the users can make better decisions, actions and even predictions. In the highly competitive envirnoment in the digital economy, doing this is simply not good enough to stay relevant.

That’s why we OpenCertHub Academy #OCHA www.ochacademy.com, a passionate and experienced team on data science and data culture, design our Data Literacy Empowerment Programme #DLEP to empower leaders and users at all levels across the whole organizations in major industries, such as financial services, property, transportation, utility, retail and so on, to speak the 2nd business language – Data. What it means is that everyone communicates, argues and wins with data as a habit in their daily conversation, meetings and tasks. We understand customers, seize opportunities and tackle problems through the smart use of data.

We aim to nurture and change the data culture of the organizations through training, data forums with industry experts and startups, cross-team data projects, community and more. Really grateful and thankful to see BEA to have a visionary leadership to go along with us in this journey of data culture transformation. We cultivated a group of Citizen Data Scientists (CDS) as the change agents to drive data culture change in their respective departments. We also have trained over hundreds of Data Citizens (DC) who now have the data mindset to use data more often in their daily jobs. The journey continues and more to come.

We thank for the trust from BEA senior management to us and have us as their trusted companion in the Data Literacy Empowerment journey. Really appreciate the collaboration and teamwork from BEA’s Data Team Kenny Au, FinTech & IT Team Stephen L. and Training & Development Team Doris Tong, and their bright teammates. Thank you! With their effort and support, we did build a very solid foundation and mutual trust to grow better and faster in 2023 and beyond. Look forward to sharing more experience with you all next year.

#BEA #BankofEastAsia
#DataLiteracy #DataCulture #DataMindset
#CitizenDataScientist #DataCitizen
#AI #BigData #Data #MachineLearning
#OpenCertHubAcademy OpenCertHub Academy

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CUHK EMBA 2022: Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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Today is the Moment of the Truth #MOT for my CUHK EMBA students in my Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship course. After 8 days of intensive lectures, case discussion, guest speakers’ sharing, they were presenting their group projects.

The project required my students to study a company’s corporate innovation from 6 different perspectives or dilemmas that they learned from my classes and offsite dinners as well 😄😋.
1. Old Economy vs Digital Economy
2. Customer Centricity vs Innovation
3. Strategy Execution vs Searching for Innovation
4. Internal Innovation vs Open Collaboration
5. Entrepreneurship vs Intrapreneurship
6. Experience Driven vs Data Driven

Really grateful to have such a group of elite executives and professionals in my class with strong learning attitude and positive, open and growth mindset. I can feel and see from the quality, innovativeness and teamwork of their final projects. Thank you so much for their great effort.

Appreciate my guest speakers to spend their weekend time to share their experience with us. We have learnt a lot from their talk, discussion and asking sensible questions. Thanks Jacqueline Chong #AWS #Amazon, Jens-Peter Brauner, FIET
#SiemensMobility #Siemens, Ryan Lai #foodpanda, and Austin R. Bryan, #CLP. Their sharing had really made a huge difference. Thank you.

Special thanks to the feedback from my last year’s CUHK EMBA2022 students as they requested the school to lengthen this course from 1.5 credit to 3.0 credit so that I can have more time to share my experience and discuss content more thoroughly with my students this year. It was indeed much more fruitful. Really thankful to like Anita Chan, Chris So, Ricky Lee, Hans Till (CUHK Executive MBA, PMP), Daniel Ching and many others. It has been a year since they presented their final project. https://lnkd.in/gpHhgZS3

I enjoyed a lot with my students in this journey of learning. Wish my sharing can further nurture and more importantly empower them to be innovative leaders in their respective industries and professions. My last advice for them, “What should we do differently from yesterday so we can survive today (and perhaps tomorrow)”. Keep it up, team.

CUHK EMBA #CUHKEMBA
CUHK Business School
#CUHKEMBA2023 #CUHKEMBA2022
#CorporateInnovation #Innovation #Entrepreneurship #Intrapreneurship #Technology
#DataLiteracy #Ecosystem

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