latest news and events
2008 Nov
2008 Nov, Lifewood has published a white paper on "How to improve Purchase Order Processing turn around time"
2008 Sep
Lifewood strengthen its ties with TAWPI
2008 Jul
Lifewood Solidifies ¡°Chindia¡± BPO Strategy
2007 Oct
Lifewood Roof Garden ¨C Enhancing Staffs¡¯ Sense of Commitments & Belongings
2007 Jun
Ronald Gave a Speech on Entrepreneurship to Brigham Young University (BYU) in the US
2007 Feb
Lifewood Awarded the Certificate of Merit in the 2006 Hong Kong Awards for Industries: Productivity & Quality
2007 Jan
Savantas Policy Institute Visited Lifewood Knowledge Factory
2006 Nov
¡°Creating ¡°Blue Ocean¡± in Shaping the Future of BPO¡±, BPO & IT Outsourcing Summit 2006
2006 Feb
2006 Outsourcing World Summit:
Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
2008 Nov2008 Nov, Lifewood has published a white paper on "How to improve Purchase Order Processing turn around time"
2008 Sep
Lifewood strengthen its ties with TAWPI
2008 Jul
Lifewood Solidifies ¡°Chindia¡± BPO Strategy
2007 Oct
Lifewood Roof Garden ¨C Enhancing Staffs¡¯ Sense of Commitments & Belongings
2007 Jun
Ronald Gave a Speech on Entrepreneurship to Brigham Young University (BYU) in the US
2007 Feb
Lifewood Awarded the Certificate of Merit in the 2006 Hong Kong Awards for Industries: Productivity & Quality
2007 Jan
Savantas Policy Institute Visited Lifewood Knowledge Factory
2006 Nov
¡°Creating ¡°Blue Ocean¡± in Shaping the Future of BPO¡±, BPO & IT Outsourcing Summit 2006
2006 Feb
2006 Outsourcing World Summit:
Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
2008 Nov, Lifewood has published a white paper on "How to improve Purchase Order Processing turn around time"
Lifewood has published a white paper on "How to improve Purchase Order Processing turn around time", where Lifewood demonstrate on a real life case how improve turn around time for paper based order processing.
The white paper describes challenges at the beginning of the project and shows how entry quality has been reached and helped the customer to improve their process workflow that the customer can be quoted with "¡ not sure how your quality can improve since it's already so good..."
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Lifewood has published a white paper on "How to improve Purchase Order Processing turn around time", where Lifewood demonstrate on a real life case how improve turn around time for paper based order processing.
The white paper describes challenges at the beginning of the project and shows how entry quality has been reached and helped the customer to improve their process workflow that the customer can be quoted with "¡ not sure how your quality can improve since it's already so good..."
Read more ...
2008 Sep, Lifewood strengthen its ties with TAWPI
Lifewood is joining TAWPI, a leading industry association for information capture professionals. This step allows Lifewood to strengthen its position as leading provider for capturing software and keying solutions and ensures that customers can have access to state of the art knowledge within the capture, imaging & forms processing industry.
TAWPI enables its members to provide education & training, professional development, industry research and publications.
Lifewood is joining TAWPI, a leading industry association for information capture professionals. This step allows Lifewood to strengthen its position as leading provider for capturing software and keying solutions and ensures that customers can have access to state of the art knowledge within the capture, imaging & forms processing industry.
TAWPI enables its members to provide education & training, professional development, industry research and publications.
Lifewood Solidifies ¡°Chindia¡± BPO Strategy
Lifewood believes that the winning strategy in today¡¯s BPO market is to adopt a ¡°Chindia¡± concept by bringing together the competencies of both China and India. In early July of 2008, our CEO Mr. Ronald Cheung conducted a mission trip to visit numerous big BPO and IT Outsourcing companies in India which built up a strong foundation for implementing the ¡°Chindia¡± strategy for Lifewood.
The Hong Kong Software Outsourcing Alliance (HKSOA) was represented by Mr. Fritz Chiu, the Principal Consultant of HK Productivity Council to study the market potential and share the latest IT development with local businesses in India.
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JB Group paves way for Indian BPOs in China
...Toward this end, the Indian arm of the JB Group has organised visits this week for delegates from Lifewood Data Technology Limited, a pioneering 'Knowledge Factory' BPO player, the productivity council and the software association to meet Indian BPO players in cities like Bangalore and Gurgaon to lay down the roadmap for the future ...
http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20080708/836/tbs-jb-group-paves-way-for-indian-bpos-i.html
JB Group paves way for Indian BPOs in China
... the productivity council and the software association to meet Indian BPO ... association to make this Chindia implementation successful," he added. ...Lifewood Knowledge Factory
http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/43485
JB group paves the way for Chindia BPO with Lifewood Hong Kong, China and Hong Kong Productivity Council
China Government to provide incentives to BPO companies setting up base in China; Hong Kong Government is sponsoring the promotion of outsourcing alliance through HKSOA ... ...
http://www.indiaprwire.com/pdf/pressrelease/2008070710888.pdf
Indo-China BPO Meet For 'Chindia' Implementation
Indo-China BPO Meet For 'Chindia' Implementation (Tuesday, July 08, 2008 12:49:24 PM IST) The meeting -- between Lifewood, Hong Kong Productivity Council ... ...
www.efytimes.com/efytimes/fullnews.asp?edid=27533
Indo-China BPO Meet For ¡°Chindia¡± Implementation
The meeting ¡ª between Lifewood, Hong Kong Productivity Council and Hong Kong Software Outsourcing Association and Indian BPO players ¡ª will enable India and China to take on the ¡®Globalisation¡¯... ...
http://itoutsourcing.blogsome.com/2008/07/09/indo-china-bpo-meet-for-chindia-implementation/
Gartner says companies must have Chindia Strategy
To stay competitive in the global economy, it imperative that IT organisations implement a hindia¡¯s strategy, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner analysts examine how China and India are altering the future of technology and innovation ... ...
http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/news/pressnews/gartnerinc/
gartnersayscompaniesmusthavechindiastrategy/market/stocks/article/278758
Lifewood believes that the winning strategy in today¡¯s BPO market is to adopt a ¡°Chindia¡± concept by bringing together the competencies of both China and India. In early July of 2008, our CEO Mr. Ronald Cheung conducted a mission trip to visit numerous big BPO and IT Outsourcing companies in India which built up a strong foundation for implementing the ¡°Chindia¡± strategy for Lifewood.
The Hong Kong Software Outsourcing Alliance (HKSOA) was represented by Mr. Fritz Chiu, the Principal Consultant of HK Productivity Council to study the market potential and share the latest IT development with local businesses in India.
More news from ...
JB Group paves way for Indian BPOs in China
...Toward this end, the Indian arm of the JB Group has organised visits this week for delegates from Lifewood Data Technology Limited, a pioneering 'Knowledge Factory' BPO player, the productivity council and the software association to meet Indian BPO players in cities like Bangalore and Gurgaon to lay down the roadmap for the future ...
http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20080708/836/tbs-jb-group-paves-way-for-indian-bpos-i.html
JB Group paves way for Indian BPOs in China
... the productivity council and the software association to meet Indian BPO ... association to make this Chindia implementation successful," he added. ...Lifewood Knowledge Factory
http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/43485
JB group paves the way for Chindia BPO with Lifewood Hong Kong, China and Hong Kong Productivity Council
China Government to provide incentives to BPO companies setting up base in China; Hong Kong Government is sponsoring the promotion of outsourcing alliance through HKSOA ... ...
http://www.indiaprwire.com/pdf/pressrelease/2008070710888.pdf
Indo-China BPO Meet For 'Chindia' Implementation
Indo-China BPO Meet For 'Chindia' Implementation (Tuesday, July 08, 2008 12:49:24 PM IST) The meeting -- between Lifewood, Hong Kong Productivity Council ... ...
www.efytimes.com/efytimes/fullnews.asp?edid=27533
Indo-China BPO Meet For ¡°Chindia¡± Implementation
The meeting ¡ª between Lifewood, Hong Kong Productivity Council and Hong Kong Software Outsourcing Association and Indian BPO players ¡ª will enable India and China to take on the ¡®Globalisation¡¯... ...
http://itoutsourcing.blogsome.com/2008/07/09/indo-china-bpo-meet-for-chindia-implementation/
Gartner says companies must have Chindia Strategy
To stay competitive in the global economy, it imperative that IT organisations implement a hindia¡¯s strategy, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner analysts examine how China and India are altering the future of technology and innovation ... ...
http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/news/pressnews/gartnerinc/
gartnersayscompaniesmusthavechindiastrategy/market/stocks/article/278758
Lifewood Roof Garden ¨C Enhancing Staffs¡¯ Sense of Commitments & Belongings
As a company that concern staffs¡¯ team spirits and work-life balance, Lifewood has set up a Roof Garden in its Knowledge Factory in Dongguan to provide all staff with more open areas for training and recreational activities. To celebrate the successful development of Lifewood Roof Garden, an Inauguration Ceremony was held on 8th October 2007. Lifewood took pleasure in inviting its prestigious guests Mr. Michael Daniels, the Director of Digital Preservation of The Generations Network and his wife Mrs. Jane Daniels to lead the Ceremonial Ribbon Cutting. Their participations made the event a great success.
Through building up a Roof Garden by both management and staff from various functions, Lifewood not only demonstrates its efforts in environmental management, but also enhance staff¡¯s sense of belongings and team spirits in contributing to the company. This strong corporate culture helps boost staff¡¯s commitments in achieving high level of service to our global customers.
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As a company that concern staffs¡¯ team spirits and work-life balance, Lifewood has set up a Roof Garden in its Knowledge Factory in Dongguan to provide all staff with more open areas for training and recreational activities. To celebrate the successful development of Lifewood Roof Garden, an Inauguration Ceremony was held on 8th October 2007. Lifewood took pleasure in inviting its prestigious guests Mr. Michael Daniels, the Director of Digital Preservation of The Generations Network and his wife Mrs. Jane Daniels to lead the Ceremonial Ribbon Cutting. Their participations made the event a great success.
Through building up a Roof Garden by both management and staff from various functions, Lifewood not only demonstrates its efforts in environmental management, but also enhance staff¡¯s sense of belongings and team spirits in contributing to the company. This strong corporate culture helps boost staff¡¯s commitments in achieving high level of service to our global customers.
Ronald Gave a Speech on Entrepreneurship to Brigham Young University (BYU) in the US
Being an entrepreneur with more than 25 years of solid experience in managing various global businesses in both Hong Kong and China, Ronald, the CEO of Lifewood was invited by Professor Fred Woods to give a speech on entrepreneurship to the Marriott School, the Business School of Brigham Young University in Utah of USA on June 6th, 2007.
The presentation drew the attendance from hundreds of students who are interested in how to become a successful entrepreneur and understanding the management perspectives in Asia. In the presentation, Ronald shared with the students on what key elements an entrepreneur should have, and how to sustain business through synergizing multi-disciplinary knowledge and resources by taking advantage of globalization where ¡°The World is Flat¡±. In the mean time, Ronald also took his track record in setting up Lifewood Data from a home-grown enterprise into a global firm to illustrate how to adopt ¡®Blue Ocean¡± strategy to avoid head-to-head competition but create a new market place in the BPO industry for continual growth of the company.
With an enthusiastic support from the professors and students of the Marriott School, the presentation and discussion stimulated a fruitful exchange of ideas in managing business from different perspectives.
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Being an entrepreneur with more than 25 years of solid experience in managing various global businesses in both Hong Kong and China, Ronald, the CEO of Lifewood was invited by Professor Fred Woods to give a speech on entrepreneurship to the Marriott School, the Business School of Brigham Young University in Utah of USA on June 6th, 2007.
The presentation drew the attendance from hundreds of students who are interested in how to become a successful entrepreneur and understanding the management perspectives in Asia. In the presentation, Ronald shared with the students on what key elements an entrepreneur should have, and how to sustain business through synergizing multi-disciplinary knowledge and resources by taking advantage of globalization where ¡°The World is Flat¡±. In the mean time, Ronald also took his track record in setting up Lifewood Data from a home-grown enterprise into a global firm to illustrate how to adopt ¡®Blue Ocean¡± strategy to avoid head-to-head competition but create a new market place in the BPO industry for continual growth of the company.
With an enthusiastic support from the professors and students of the Marriott School, the presentation and discussion stimulated a fruitful exchange of ideas in managing business from different perspectives.
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Ronald shared his views towards successful entrepreneurs and how Lifewood made ¡°Blue Ocean¡± strategy into practice. |
Hundreds of students from BYU Marriott School attended the presentation given by Ronald, the CEO of Lifewood. |
Lifewood Awarded the Certificate of Merit in the 2006 Hong Kong Awards for Industries: Productivity & Quality
We are delighted to announce that Lifewood Data Technology Limited was awarded the Certificate of Merit in the 2006 Hong Kong Awards for Industries: Productivity & Quality.
The Hong Kong Awards for Industries is held annually to recognize the excellence performance of the outstanding companies in the industry. Among the 7 categories, the Productivity & Quality category is established to promote quality excellence among local enterprises as a way to enhance their competitiveness. All participants were assessed against a comprehensive set of judgment criteria, which covered leadership & strategic planning, customer & market focus, innovation & creativity, excellence management & improvement system, resource management, as well as business results. Lifewood took pleasure to attend the 2006 Productiivity & Quality Award competition together with over 30 well-established enterprises from different service and manufacturing industries. The achievement of Certificate of Merit demonstrates Lifewood¡¯s efforts in the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry over the past few years.
Looking forward, Lifewood will continue pursuing productivity and quality excellence by leveraging our intellectual assets, leading-edge technologies, proven management processes and years of experience in the BPO industry.
We are delighted to announce that Lifewood Data Technology Limited was awarded the Certificate of Merit in the 2006 Hong Kong Awards for Industries: Productivity & Quality.
The Hong Kong Awards for Industries is held annually to recognize the excellence performance of the outstanding companies in the industry. Among the 7 categories, the Productivity & Quality category is established to promote quality excellence among local enterprises as a way to enhance their competitiveness. All participants were assessed against a comprehensive set of judgment criteria, which covered leadership & strategic planning, customer & market focus, innovation & creativity, excellence management & improvement system, resource management, as well as business results. Lifewood took pleasure to attend the 2006 Productiivity & Quality Award competition together with over 30 well-established enterprises from different service and manufacturing industries. The achievement of Certificate of Merit demonstrates Lifewood¡¯s efforts in the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry over the past few years.
Looking forward, Lifewood will continue pursuing productivity and quality excellence by leveraging our intellectual assets, leading-edge technologies, proven management processes and years of experience in the BPO industry.
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Ronald Cheung, CEO of Lifewood received the award together with other winners and The Hon Henry Tan, Financial Secretary of the HKSAR during the Awards Presentation Ceremony of 2006 Hong Kong Awards for Industry: Productivity & Quality. |
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| Our CEO and Director shared the joy of achieving the Certificate of Merit in the Productivity & Quality category of Hong Kong Awards for Industry. | Lifewood was invited to give an introduction about the establishment history and capabilities in capturing the global market during the Winner’s Exhibition. |
Savantas Policy Institute Visited Lifewood Knowledge Factory
Further to joining the BPO & IT Outsourcing Summit 2006, Mrs. Regina Ip, the former Secretary for Security of the government of the HKSAR and now the Chairperson of Board of Governors of Savantas Policy Institute led her core team to visit Lifewood¡¯s Knowledge Factory, an industrialized managed data processing centre on 19th of January 2007.
During the plant visit, our CEO Mr. Ronald Cheung demonstrated how Lifewood can be reasonably priced, fast, accurate, innovative, passionate and having international savvy by applying lean strategy and knowledge management principles into the operation. Regina and her team were impressed by Lifewood¡¯s knowledge factory model which not only can combine Hong Kong¡¯s international management experience and global network together with China¡¯s abundant resources to promote a knowledge-based economy, but also turns BPO business into a new paradigm.
Lifewood was pleased to share lots of management insights with Savantas team in the visit and look forward to have ideas exchage with more other organizations.
Further to joining the BPO & IT Outsourcing Summit 2006, Mrs. Regina Ip, the former Secretary for Security of the government of the HKSAR and now the Chairperson of Board of Governors of Savantas Policy Institute led her core team to visit Lifewood¡¯s Knowledge Factory, an industrialized managed data processing centre on 19th of January 2007.
During the plant visit, our CEO Mr. Ronald Cheung demonstrated how Lifewood can be reasonably priced, fast, accurate, innovative, passionate and having international savvy by applying lean strategy and knowledge management principles into the operation. Regina and her team were impressed by Lifewood¡¯s knowledge factory model which not only can combine Hong Kong¡¯s international management experience and global network together with China¡¯s abundant resources to promote a knowledge-based economy, but also turns BPO business into a new paradigm.
Lifewood was pleased to share lots of management insights with Savantas team in the visit and look forward to have ideas exchage with more other organizations.
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Mrs. Regina Ip, the former Secretary for Security of the HKSAR government and now the Chairperson of Board of Governors of Savantas Policy Institute (middle) and her team including Charles Cheng, Policy Analyst (the left); Alfred Kwok, Governor and Founding Member (second from left) and Wendy Tsang, Director of Communications (third from right) visited Lifewood Knowledge Factory in Dongguan. |
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| Mr. Ronald Cheung, CEO of Lifewood introduced Knowledge Factory¡¯s various management systems which can help provide customers with reliable and cost-effective data processing service. | |
¡°Creating ¡°Blue Ocean¡± in Shaping the Future of BPO¡±, BPO & IT Outsourcing Summit 2006
Along with the globalization and maturity of technology product life cycle, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry has been experiencing massive growth rate yet facing an intense competition across the globe. While most of the companies are fighting over shrinking profit margin through throat-cutting price strategy, Lifewood believes that the prudent strategy to win in today and tomorrow¡¯s marketplace is to create ¡°blue oceans¡± of uncontested market space ripe for growth and make competition irrelevant.
As such, Mr Ronald Cheung, the CEO of Lifewood was invited to give a keynote presentation ¡°Creating ¡°Blue Ocean¡± in Shaping the Future of BPO¡± in the BPO & IT Outsourcing Summit 2006. During the conference, Ronald demonstrated the whole team¡¯s passion and the application of Blue Ocean strategy to build up Lifewood a successful war story in the BPO market. Our USA business partner Mr Steve Nickle had also been invited to illustrate the key factors to select a good BPO partner and to win in the BPO industry, while Lifewood¡¯s China data entry supervisors shared with the delegates how Lifewood¡¯s Blue Ocean strategy enables them to accelerate personal growth and make significant contributions to the company. Such presentation obtained favourable feedbacks from the delegates.
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| Lifewood demonstrated how to take advantage of the combinations of Hong Kong and China¡¯s intelligence and abundant resources to tap into the global BPO market. |
In addition to the conference which allowed outsourcing professionals and business achievers to exchange valuable ideas in BPO strategy and leading edge technologies, the BPO & IT Outsourcing Summit 2006 which featured an exhibition for displaying various BPO & IT products and services had attracted more than 200 global senior executives¡¯ participation from a wide arrays of industries such as IT, Banking, Finance & Insurance, education, manufacturing, engineering, transportation, retail as well as government departments. This demonstrated the growing market potential of the BPO & ITO industries which have been a focal point among all industries in the 21st century.
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| Mr Ronald Cheung, CEO of Lifewood welcomed our customers and business partners from around the world to attend the Summit. |
2006 Outsourcing World Summit: Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
¡°Leadership not by accident, but by design¡± - Lifewood strives to attain a leadership position in the Outsourcing Industry.
The Outsourcing World Summit® is one of the industry's most influential and highly respected conferences. It was organized in February 2006 by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) and attracted thousands of executives from around the world. The theme of this year's Summit was leadership - leadership in outsourcing; leadership not by accident, but by design.
Striving to provide the best Business Processing Outsourcing (BPO) services to the worldwide customers, Lifewood participated in this prestigious event to exchange ideas on how to attain a leadership position with the top executives around the world.
Lifewood¡¯s CEO, Mr. Ronald Cheung remarked ¡°This event has given us a great opportunity to introduce our service and demonstrate our core competencies to global customers interested in outsourcing their non-core business processes. Additionally, the speakers¡¯ presentations during the conference have provided valuable insights into our future directions in business development.¡± By participating in this Summit, Lifewood conducted important knowledge sharing with global partners.
¡°Leadership not by accident, but by design¡± - Lifewood strives to attain a leadership position in the Outsourcing Industry.
The Outsourcing World Summit® is one of the industry's most influential and highly respected conferences. It was organized in February 2006 by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) and attracted thousands of executives from around the world. The theme of this year's Summit was leadership - leadership in outsourcing; leadership not by accident, but by design.
Striving to provide the best Business Processing Outsourcing (BPO) services to the worldwide customers, Lifewood participated in this prestigious event to exchange ideas on how to attain a leadership position with the top executives around the world.
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