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1. The Tipping
Point Initiative
Sept 6, 2013
A point of view on what had happened

2. Lessons in Leadership, Entrepreneurship,
and Innovation
1. How does one change the status quo?
2. Is he certain that the new status is better than the
present?
3. How does an entrepreneur (believer of one) move
to become an innovator (believer of one with
many followers who would buy his products)? [Let’s
define an innovator as someone whose products
or services have buyers, which differentiate from
an inventor whose products or services do not]
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3. Case Challenges
1. How do you ignite the fire of change and fan its
spread?
2. What does a change champion need to do to
bring about a miracle?
3. How do you bring 6 disparate groups together for
dialogue?
4. How do you entice them to see a better
tomorrow?
5. How do you determine success of a US$50,000
conference?
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4. 8 Steps to Ignite Change
1. Create a burning
platform
2. Find a common
ground
3. Break the ground
under their feet
4. Show them a new way
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5. Appeal to their
nobleness
6. Show them it has been
done before
7. Challenge them
8. Conclude by helping
them visualize this
better future
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5. Step 1: Create a Burning Platform
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6. Where’s is Hong Kong?
Source: Startup Genome, 2012
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7. Step 2: Find a common ground
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8. www.proprofs.com
Six Blind Men and An Elephant?
Start-ups n Government n Academics n Youth n Industrialists n Policymakers
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9. Are we actually looking at the same elephant, but
each with a different timeframe?
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10. Definition of innovation
Before
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Technology
Products
Owned by R&D
Hard, risky, nuisance
A noun
The thing itself
Now
• About Value
• Anything that can
create value
• Owned by everyone
• Hard, risky, fun
• A verb
• Essential to the values
of things
Source: Dr. Royce Yuen,
ex-Asian Chairman of O&M
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11. "ʺThe commercialization
of creativity.”
Anonymous
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12. Step 3: Break the ground under
their feet
By questioning their assumptions
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13. Why Can’t We?
• Build on our world-class
efficiency, speed, and
adaptability that is
uniquely Hong Kong?
• Be the cleanest city in
the world?
• Create new
technologies not by
ourselves but with
others like Finland?
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• Become the definitive
“Academy” for Greater
China?
• With aging population,
comes modern old age
homes?
• Be the world’s firemen
and rescue others from
harm?
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15. Step 4: Show them a new way
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18. 9:30 am
An Innovation
Framework
Prof. Gordon Redding,
Senior Fellow, INSEAD
Escaping the Mercantile
Equilibrium Trap: Business
Organizations as Instruments of
Societal Benevolent Domination in
China ?
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19. Dr. Po Chi Wu, Adjunct
Professor of Engineering and
Business, HKUST
10:00 am
Common Sense
and Practicality
The Nose Knows
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20. Step 5: Appeal to their nobleness
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21. Today’s Aims
• How can the bow ties talk to
the flip flops?
• How can we learn to listen
better?
• How can we learn to accept
our own mistakes and move
on?
• How can we remake Hong
Kong?
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22. Step 6: Show them it has been
done before
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23. Prof. Arthur Ellis, Provost, City
University of Hong Kong
Building a Foundation for
Innovation in Hong Kong:
The CityU Discoveryenriched Curriculum
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Real Life
Example of
Innovation
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24. Step 7: Challenge them to work
together
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25. Challenge to Each Panel
1. What is so innovative about this panel
discussion?
2. What are the missing ingredients that would
make this innovation work for Hong Kong?
What should be the new role of government,
industry, and students?
3. Why should you, the audience, the current
industry, supplier, customers, and listeners
want to be a part of this initiative? What is it
in it for you?
Panel leaders shall summarize their discussions for the plenary
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26. Step 7: Challenge them
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27. Free Wi-­‐‑fi City
Recent Past
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Tel Aviv
Jerusalem
New York
Mountain View
Santa Monica
London
Minneapolis
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Present
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Birmingham UK
Singapore
Paris
Mysore India
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28. Step 8: Conclude by helping them
visualize a beer future
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29. The New Hong Kong?
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30. 8 Steps to Ignite Change
1. Create a burning
platform
2. Find a common
ground
3. Break the ground
under their feet
4. Show them a new way
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5. Appeal to their
nobleness
6. Show them it has been
done before
7. Challenge them
8. Conclude by helping
them visualize this
better future
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