<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "></div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Hi Listers,</div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">A few days ago an was in a Kenya Bus and got a </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">deja vu moment as I looked at the conductor standing in front of </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3"> me dispensing his
ticket. </font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; "><span><a target="_blank" href="http://quadrantshift.co.ke/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/kbs-ticket-machine.jpg">http://quadrantshift.co.ke/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/kbs-ticket-machine.jpg</a>.</span></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#003399" face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york',
times, serif">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</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"> at times) to Buru Buru where we lived.<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">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.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font
class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">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 </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Eastleigh, lose of the monopoly in Nairobi and Mombasa, lose of the sole use of the Bus Terminal in Nairobi. </font></div><div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">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.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">A true innovation.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Regards</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">PS. I am a sower, I leave harvesting to others.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"
size="3"> </font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Robert Yawe</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">KAY System Technologies Ltd</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Phoenix House, 6th Floor</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Kenya</font><br><br><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696<div><br></div></div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; position: fixed; "></div>
</div></body></html>