[kictanet] A true innovation?

[robert yawe]

Hi Listers,

A few days ago an was in a Kenya Bus and got a deja vu moment as I looked at the 
conductor standing in front of  me dispensing his ticket. 

http://quadrantshift.co.ke/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/kbs-ticket-machine.jpg.

The moment tool me back to 1978 and I a sitting in a number 29 bus coming from 
Eastleigh, where I went to school (now you can understand my lack 
of etiquette at times) to Buru Buru where we lived.


To date the machine remains the same with what seems to be a very basic 
activity, dispensing tickets.  Which would explain why it remains the same no 
fancy additions or features, but what many of you might not know is that it 
seats at the heart of a very elaborate system.

This easily overlooked device gives Kenya Bus Management Company the wealth of 
information that keeps them ahead of the pack and kept them operational event 
after all the groups of raiders who have owned the company over the past 20 or 
so years, lose of their garage in Eastleigh, lose of the monopoly in Nairobi and 
Mombasa, lose of the sole use of the Bus Terminal in Nairobi. 

Now that little gadget that we all take for granted as we start new transport 
organisations is what has kept them going.  There is a product ready to be 
transitioned to the 21st century if only we stopped looking for opportunities 
for innovation in all the wrong places.

A true innovation.

Regards

PS.  I am a sower, I leave harvesting to others.
 Robert Yawe
KAY System Technologies Ltd
Phoenix House, 6th Floor
P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
Kenya


Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
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