[kictanet] Vision 2030: The Gikomba Experience

[Barrack Otieno]

Thanks for this Bobby, i agree with your sentiments.

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 1:50 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Listers,
>
> At the beginning of the year and visited Gikomba to see if I could get a
> basket ball backboard fabricated and task that was executed within an hour.
>
> Apart from the efficiency and flexibility with which is was done my
> experience re-affirms by believe that the Vision 2030 and no more a shelf
> document than the Sessional Paper number 3 I believe of 1968 was.
>
> I ask Mr. Kibati and his team to visit Gikomba and also Grogan (where a
> car is reconditioned in 8 hours flat), spend at least 2 hours after which
> you will be in a position to give sight to Vision 2030.
>
> Gikomba and Grogan epitomise what the vision was of the Kenya Industrial
> Estates workshops in Industrial Areas where supposed to be and also the
> later Nyayo Jua Kali Sheds but with the missing ingredient, the peculiar
> Kenyan.
>
>
>
> This is a picture of the average stalls in Gikomba, I visited 3 speciality
> workshops before the backboard was finally completed, each stall measures
> no more than 3 x 5 meters.  The picture above is of a stall with a wood
> planner, circular saw and router.  Each of the stalls usually accommodates
> a number of independent contractors with the usual broker offering the
> logistics and coordination function
>
>
> As the demand for space increases the stalls have now been extended to two
> levels and a few new constructions have risen to 3 and 4 storeys.
>
> The two locations apply all the rules of Just I Time and as an engineer
> you will appreciate the clustering of various activities in the form of a
> conveyor belt system.
>
> To me what I visualised was the Airbus manufacturing model where
> components are assembled in disparate locations.
>
> Let as be weary of picking a foreign model on industrialisation without
> localising it and taking into account the fact that Kenya is a different
> country and 2013 is not 1967 so the Asian Tiger models or the MIT models
> will fail here, we must incorporate our local peculiarities if we are to
> succeed.
>
> Regards
>
>
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