Hong Kong ICT Awards 2008: Best Business (Application) Award and
Hong Kong ICT Awards 2008: Best Business (Application - SME) Award


1 Functionality
- Understanding and addressing the operational requirements of the user(s)
- Easy to learn and use
- Quality of work, reliability, screen layout, etc. well accepted by the user(s)
- Good quality of work, reliable, efficient and adequate user support work re-engineering

2 Effectiveness & Efficiency
- Use of the software to formulate productivity strategy
- Value added after implementation
- Improved competitive edge in terms of efficiency and effectiveness
- Implementation: cost vs. effort

3 Competitiveness
- General improvement of competitive edge
- Improved business performance
- Critical comparison by function and feature with competing similar applications

4 Cost Performance
- Cost savings
- Contribution to revenue

5 Social Impact
- Discovering an under-resourced sector or opening up a new service area
- Direct benefit to the target user sector
- Enhancing the public awareness of the use and benefits of IT
- Stimulating interest and innovation in respect of further or similar applications
- Transforming the IT industry

6 Presentation
- Materials presented in clear and logical form
- Clarity, structured and natural flow from one point to the next
- Duration, a balance between duration and content
- Questions and answers (appropriate respond to judges’ inquiries with substantive answers)
- Quality of visual aids (hardware, signs, computer demonstrations, etc.)

7 Innovative Use of IT
- Few similar products/services in the market
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Deploying appropriate technologies in an innovative manner, which is seldom tried out before, yet providing satisfactory results for the intended purposes
- Thoughtful mix and match of functions and features in an attractive deployment


Hong Kong ICT Awards 2008: Best Business (Product) Award


1 Functionality
- Understanding and addressing user requirements in the target industry
- Easy to set up, learn and use
- Quality of work, reliability, screen layout and presentation
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Simple and versatile in catering to operational efficiency and in providing a path for work re-engineering

2 Innovation
- First of its kind in Hong Kong, the region, or the world
- Effective deployment and integration of available resources or technologies
- Appropriate cost/benefit ratio in terms of the R & D expenditure
- The possibility of a breakthrough in an upgraded version or any plans to develop an upgrade

3 Market Performance
- Reasonable sales figures in the last 12 months, market share and penetration
- Projected sales figures for the coming 12 months and marketing strategy

4 Cost Performance
- Critical functional and by-feature comparison with comparable products
- Generation of higher added-value

5 Social Impact
- Satisfying customer needs that were previously not possible or had been unmet
- Raising public awareness of IT
- Direct and indirect benefits to target user sector
- Transforming the industry

6 Presentation
- Materials presented in clear and logical form
- Clarity, structured and natural flow from one point to the next
- Duration, a balance between duration and content
- Questions and answers (appropriate respond to judges’ inquiries with substantive answers)
- Quality of visual aids (hardware, signs, computer demonstrations, etc.)