[kictanet] Yawe for Post Master General - Aluta Continua

Fri Jul 1 10:59:24 EAT 2011

Sounds good, i like your strategy, Robert.

Thanks

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 10:06 AM, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>
> Bobby,
>
>
>    1. How do you intend to take advantage of the new county system and
>    regional opportunities (East Central and Southern Africa)
>
> The new county system will provide a new impetus to the need for post
> offices as a central location for accessing and disseminating information
> to the county citizens.  Applications for passports, driving licenses and
> the like will be decentralised to the counties who would then need a cost
> effective way to receive and send out the documents.
>
> With the registered mail service sensitive information can be safely
> delivered thus reducing the opportunities for corruption and lack of
> accountability.  On Tuesday PS Angote was complaining about the thousands of
> title deeds lying uncollected at Arthi House, a situation that has arisen by
> a lack of clear procedures for delivery of the documents.
>
> All that the Ministry needs to do is send out all completed documents to
> the provided postal address, this also helps to confirm the address to which
> the land rent demand notes will be sent to, the registrar of motor vehicles
> has always sent log books through the postal system why not the titles.
>
> However much you would like to convince ourself that a title deed is worth
> more than a car please note that a lot of land that is transacted in the
> country costs less than 500,000/- so if we can entrust the postal service
> with a log book for a car worth 15 million what is a title deed for a plot
> worth 150,000/-.
>
> PCK still remains one of the only ways to get mail and parcels to the
> hinterland of the region from Mandera to Mbeya and Arua to Lindi all at a
> fraction of the price of the next best.
>
>    1. What steps will you take to transform Post Offices in far flung
>    places into profitable centres?
>
> When you are running a multi-locational organisation you must approach
> profitability in a holistic manner and not at individual locations.  Such
> errors in reducing your profit calculations to branch level
> without reconciling it to the whole organisation have been made with large
> organisations like Barclay's Bank who in the heydays of branched banking
> went on a spree of shutting down unprofitable branches around the country.
>
> Someone had taken a report showing profitability by branch and proceeded to
> close any branch that was not showing a profit.  Their error in judgement
> was only realised when someone noticed that closing of a branch in Meru
> resulted in a drop in profitability at the Queensway Branch.  What the
> analyst had not realised was that customers had accounts in both branches
> and would then bank the money in Nairobi then transfer it to the Meru Branch
> so as not to need to drive from Nairobi to Meru with cash.
>
> The revenue for the transfer from Nairobi to Meru was realised and booked
> in the originating branch therefore giving the indication that one branch
> was more profitable than the other yet what they had was a symbiotic
> relationship.
>
> I would not want to make the same mistake with PCK as I am clear of the
> relationship between all branches in making sure that the
> entire organisation remains profitable.  The confidence you get when you
> send medicine to a parent in your far flung region using PCK
> will strengthen your confidence when sending a less sensitive item within
> the city resulting in increased loyalty.
>
>    1. How will you encourage the public to troupe back to the Post
>    Offices?
>
> The public never left just a few of us who believe that the entire world
> moved electronic, even as we post the postal service in the most developed
> countries still continue to operate profitably yet they have technology
> penetrations higher than in Kenya.
>
> We must not forget that even DHL continues to grow in leaps and bounds
> making snail mail deliveries, if email and SMS are instant then anything
> that takes longer than either of those services can be deemed slow.  Not all
> information can be delivered electronically in 90% of cases a physical item
> will need to be delivered even though the initial transaction was
> electronic.
>
> PCK is the missing link in the supply chain for e-commerce, I will get you
> back to the post office but not necessarily physically as the final delivery
> will most likely be to your door.  Through PCK I shall level the divide that
> currently exists and continues to widen between you in Nairobi and a student
> in Lokitaung, the student at Nairobi University with access to multiple
> bookshops and libraries to one in Maseno with access to a single overpriced
> and understocked bookshop.
>
> Regards
>
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 12:30 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:
>
>>
>> I have a few questions for you:
>>
>>
>>
>> 1.       How will you increase the corporation’s revenues (i.e. what
>> innovations ill you bring on-board to revive the sleeping giant), in the
>> backdrop of its main products such as snail mail in sharp decline over the
>> years as a result of modern IC technologies?
>>
>>
>> - To increase revenue I will develop the parcel service mainly for local
>> delivery an area that will receive a lot of resistance from the new entrants
>> in the industry who I believe are working in the background to keep PCK
>> asleep.
>>
>>
>> I would like to give you a detailed reply on the ICT innovations I would
>> want to implement but the current board and management could just pick on it
>> and run thus loosing my strategic advantage.
>>
>>
>> 2.       Do you see any conflict of interest in your role at Posta as a
>> result of your past, current or future engagements with the
>> corporation/elsewhere?
>>
>>
>> I see no conflict of interest
>>
>>
>> 3.       What are your specific qualifications and experience that make
>> you the best candidate for the role of PMG?
>>
>>
>> This question was answered before, this question if what has kept PCK
>> where it is today as there is yet to be an institution which can train you
>> on how to revive the organisation.  Dr. James Mwangi would never have seen
>> the light of day during the recruitment of the MD of KCB yet he runs a more
>> profitable organisation despite the lack of  "specific qualifications".
>>
>>
>> 4.       With a bloated/redundant workforce at Posta; how will you
>> transform the organization to a lean and productive enterprise without
>> causing “political” and sometimes ethnic uproar that comes with down/right
>> sizing such an organization?
>>
>>
>> PCK is understaffed for the direction I plan to take the organisation, a
>> workforce is only deemed to be bloated when the organisation is unable to
>> profitably utilise them.
>>
>>
>> Orange has reduced the staff count from 21,000 to 1,500 finally yet there
>> is no corresponding change in the bottom line.  The total wage bill for PCKs
>> 4,500 employees is less than that of some organisations with less than 150 employees,
>> if anything I will be looking at increasing the wage bill not reducing it
>> especially at the bottom of the organisation as a way to increase moral and
>> reduce the anxiety of lay-offs
>>
>>
>> We need to be weary of the culture of reducing staff count as a fad and
>> look at making productive use of the staff.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Edwin M Onchari
>>
>> 0773711600
>>
>> 0720755951
>>
>> eonchari at lynxbits.com
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com at lists.kictanet.or.ke[mailto:
>> kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com at lists.kictanet.or.ke] *On Behalf
>> Of *Odhiambo Washington
>> *Sent:* Thursday, June 30, 2011 10:54 AM
>> *To:* Edwin
>> *Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
>> *Subject:* Re: [kictanet] Yawe for Post Master General - Aluta Continua
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 09:00, Joseph Mucheru <mucheru at google.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Robert,
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for sharing your ambitions. Am curious and if you don't mind (since
>> you have made your intentions public) I would like to start preparing public
>> interview questions before your appointment.
>>
>>
>>
>> 1: Why do you think you are more qualified than the existing management?
>>
>> 2: Other than existing infrastructure that Posta has, have you also looked
>> at the debts of the corporation to see the worthiness of the business?
>>
>> 3: Why don't you create a new Posta? Raise capital and use a network of
>> existing businesses in the country.
>>
>> Am sure others can add more questions these are to start?
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello Mucheru,
>>
>>
>>
>> I am sure Yawe is well prepared to answer these, but what you have done is
>> to turn the wheel back some months:)
>>
>> Yawe already pitched his reasons to support his quest some months back and
>> those reasons are in the archives of this list. I am still very convinced
>> that he can pull it off, given his pitch, which is perhaps what you need to
>> start by reading.
>>
>>
>>
>> What we (and him) want is a PCK that works, is profitable and is the pride
>> of Kenyans, much like the UK Postal system, or any other "functional" one
>> you can refer to elsewhere.
>>
>>
>>
>> Don't we all know why Posta is the way it is? We just want the Posta Posta
>> with Robert Yawe at the help, to turn it round. There is no point creating a
>> new one. Just changing the business model, the employee mindset, coupled
>> with sound management practices should be enough, or so I think.
>>
>>
>>
>> PS: Robert, on a positive note, I recently decided to bite the bullet and
>> sent my 1.7kg parcel to Australia using EMS Kenya. It cost me KES 6,300 (as
>> opposed to KES 14,000 which DHL wanted to charge) and guess what? It arrived
>> in Oz in a record 4-working days!!
>>
>> While they still don't have the Bumba boxes, it would appear that they are
>> capable of delivering -  cheaply than the likes of DHL.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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