[kictanet] Yawe for Post Master General - Aluta Continua

[robert yawe]

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.
 

-- 
Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
+254733744121/+254722743223
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