<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>I concur Dorcas. Despite Mpesa being 'dominant' it has one of the most tortuous Customer Journeys of any mobile product. For example I count 12 steps to make an Mpesa Transaction!!! This will go a long way in increasing 'stickiness' </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Well done Safaricom. It's a glass half full. :-)<br><br><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hussein & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">+254 0713 601113 / 0770906375</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font></font></span><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Skype: abu-jomo</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a><a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></a></span></p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font></font></span><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"></p><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Blog: <a href="http://www.alyhussein.com/" target="_blank">www.alyhussein.com</a></span><br></font></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></span></div><div>"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi</div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On 11 May 2017, at 12:32 PM, Dorcas Muthoni via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="auto">My understanding is that Safaricom is creating efficiency in the customer journey by limiting data entry to only the PIN when making payments to merchants. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I think it is smart! </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On May 11, 2017 12:24 PM, "Erick Mwangi via kictanet" <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family:"calibri",sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><br></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family:"calibri",sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Morning Listers,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family:"calibri",sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><br></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family:"calibri",sans-serif;font-size:11pt">This is a Cool feature for Mpesa. Personally I don`t hold much faith in it, since secure elements for NFC are expensive, but I guess we`ll have to see if they manage to make profit on this and what the uptake is.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family:"calibri",sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><br></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family:"calibri",sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Through an in-house Start-up, we once had implemented an NFC payment solution with Vodafone a few years ago at our work canteen, it was mainly used for employees to pay for food and beverages in the in-house facilities and on the vending machines. No tags involved – we virtualised a secure element on the NFC enabled SIM card ;)<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family:"calibri",sans-serif;font-size:11pt">However, after analysis we concluded that the model had no commercial future, only for show.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family:"calibri",sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><br></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family:"calibri",sans-serif;font-size:11pt">But I stand to be corrected - Certainly interesting times..</span></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-4432499323502397617gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>E Njoroge Mwangi</div><div>Technology| FINTECH | Big Data</div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Cell <font color="#1155cc"><a href="tel:+44%207539%20372742" value="+447539372742" target="_blank">+44 7539372742</a></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Skype: Erick.mwangi</div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 6:04 PM, Timothy- Coach- Oriedo via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Listers,<div><br></div><div>The long awaited NFC automation for MPESA is finally out. </div><div><br></div><div>For all CIOs, developers, digital marketers looking at embedding the solution on their existing infrastructure to provide a seamless payment experience please check our website <a href="http://www.briskpesa.com" target="_blank">www.briskpesa.com</a> and give me a call on <a href="tel:0722%20816171" value="+254722816171" target="_blank">0722 816171</a>. </div><div><br></div><div>See attached inforgraph and video link below. </div><div>Kind Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Tim <br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-4432499323502397617m_2452147196158124039gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><br>
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