www.pwani.net
Redefining
BUSINESS
Pwani
A Publication of Pwani Vol. 12, FEB 2012
NEWS
RESTRUCTURE 2012 By Brenda Achieng
A SENSE OF
UrgencY
For a business to grow and meet the ever competitive demands of the industry there is a constant need for an organization to change the way it runs its business. These changes are the Organisational restructures which are very crucial for any business. That’s why in a period of 2 years we have had 4 restructures! Isn’t this exciting? January 23rd 2012 has been marked as one of the most important days in the history of Pwani. This is a day that the entire staff were eagerly awaiting to know the changes that the restructure would bring about. Come the morning of 23rd……..by 8.00am at the head office, everyone was seated, eagerly awaiting the announcements on the structural changes that happened Contd on Pg 2
MARKETING ON THE MOVE! By: Wendy Munene
There is a saying that there are 3 C’s in life: Choice, Chance, Change. You must make the Choice, To take the Chance, If you want anything in life to Change!’ Interesting! This time around the change has come knocking at the door of the Marketing in HO. We have begun the process of relocating! The Pwani HO staff are being relocated to either Jomvu or Kikambala. The objective is to ensure that we are an operational friendly unit... Contd on Pg 2
Everyday that we live, every action that we take is an opportunity to add value to our lives and everyone around us. At Pwani, we are driven by everything that we do at all cost and by doing it passionately. We have to decide what we don’t want which is allowing everything drift. Deciding what you don’t want puts you in command of your life. Let’s get to a point where we are guided by vision and principle and not by opportunity. It takes a different level of perception to be guided by vision and principle; this is what separates the wheat from the chaff, it is what separates the boys from the men! How fast you complete a given task and meet your deadline is crucial in determining your success and significance. We should start every task with an end in mind and a picture of what end we desire to achieve. We need to act now! If we don’t act right now everything will work against you. The days will slip into weeks, weeks into months, months into years and pretty soon it will all be over without you accomplishing your goals. We need to refuse mediocrity. You need to give more of yourself in your work and focus on accomplishing your goals. Let’s stop waiting for other people to make the changes for us. Let’s move out of our comfort zones and take action. If something is not done right stand up and make it right. By the end of the day we will all be successful. Pete CEO
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RESTRUCTURE 2012 By Brenda
OVERALL
ORGANISATIONAL CHART
23.01.2012
By: Marketing Team Chief Executive Officer (Peter) Corporate Governance Manager (Aarti)
Executive - Personal Assistant (Brenda)
CCO (Vacant)
CTO (Vacant)
CFO (Patrick)
Manager – Credit Mgmt (Vacant)
Director of VCD (Saeed)
Our new antibacterial beauty soap is getting bigger since its inception in October 2011. This year the sales team is motivated to sell Diva with a goal of winning a weekend getaway to the Tsavo. The goal of the Factory Outlet and the Van sales team is to sell 5000 cartons while that of Customer Retention Executives (CRE) is to sell 7,500 cartons of Diva, bringing the total to 12,500 cartons between 17th Jan to 29th Feb 2012. Thereafter the wining team will hop onto a bus to Voi Safari Lodge to bring out the Diva within them. It’s a chance for the Domestic sales team to be what they want to be. Good Luck! Contd from Pg 1
MARKETING ON THE MOVE!
Director of Projects & Excellence (Ranjan)
Director of Exports (Paul)
Senior Manager - Biz Process & Planning (Vacant)
Senior Manager Domestic Sales (Vacant)
Director of Operations – Kik (Riten)
Director of Marketing (Bharat)
Senior Manager B2B (Jackline)
Senior Manager Supply Chain (Rakam)
Senior Manager Production – Jomvu (Caleb)
Senior Manager Accounts (Omar)
Senior Manager – HR & Admin (Vacant)
Manager Planning (Vacant)
in the Organization which would give a clear career progression chart to the employee. The same was repeated at Jomvu at 10:30am and Kikambala at 2:30pm.
On this day, 13 staff were recognized and promoted for their hard work and good performance. This proves that consistent hard work, determination and living the Pwani values come with great rewards! Reshuffling on the other hand ensures that everyone’s skills are fully utilized and their abilities are maximized. Reshuffles also ensure that an employee is constantly out of the comfort zones and face new challenges! I don’t know about you, but this should be the highlight in everyone’s career. By now we all can be sure of one thing constant in Pwani – ‘Change’. I 2012 am sure there would be many more activities and challenges lined up. Some of the exciting activities and benefits expected include:-
and from the current three locations, we move to one location sometime in the future. Can you imagine the ease of operations when all of us are on the same premises? The team work and the level of efficiency and productivity would reach its highest point! It was a nostalgic moment at HO last week, when part of our family started packing – Marketing was the first group to lead the path of relocation to Kikambala. There was a beehive of activities, with wires being disconnected, cartons being packed and lots of goodbyes being murmured in the corridors… And it so happened that our Marketing Moose. moved from HO and settled in Kikambala. And the clock ticks, next in line, it could be you. Exciting isn’t it?
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MNC organizational structure Office relocation Structured NPD program Brand planning and execution Factory Investments Rationalization New set of TVC’s ERP finalization
All in all, higher expectations from the staff are set for 2012, these come with a promise …… if we meet the challenges ahead bigger and better benefits are to come! “It doesn’t matter where you are, you are nowhere compared to where you can go.” -Bob Proctor
Jomvu P2P Connection
By Jeremiah, Okaalo
Since its inception the HO/Jomvu fibre optic point -2-point connection was highly expected to deliver top flight speeds, no timeouts not to mention hours of downtimes and indeed a paradigm shift from the days of ‘total knockout Fridays’. Six months since its installation the P2P connection has had its share of blames and praises. We went soul searching on the predicaments that had continued to plague the fibre link and pushed the service providers to the very dark corners that only hope for them was to see
the light even when there wasn’t any. It came out that our downtime causes pointed to a switch that was very slow, congested the network and could not balance the load for internal and external communication. Last week, I.T. invested in and installed a new switch that has the ability to automatically detect and reroute internal and external mail. It is also much more faster and efficient. We are working on a secondary fibre to enter the premesis on a different point to combat any instance of fibre cut happening around our gates Jomvu Factory
Kenya Pipe line
JTL Network Ring
Pwani Fibre Line
Old Nbi Road
Pwani 2nd Fibre Line
Railway
Nairobi Highway Miritini
Key: JTL Primary Fibre Line
JTL Backup Fibre Line Proposed Fibre Line
This is the current connection at the Factory; note that before we were only on the primary fibre link.
Before our network ring looked something like this:
Key. Fibre link
Nodes
Now we have this
Key. Fibre link
Nodes
It has been a full revolution with teething problems here and there but I can confidently say we are coming, kenaaaaako!
The TASTIEST and BEST Chapatis made at the home of ‘Pwani life!’
Pwani Divas By: Anthony Odeo.
Meet Christine Makena, our Senior Executive - Oils, Fats & Soaps at our Jomvu Factory 1. How would you describe yourself in two words? Receptive and Motivational
Jomvu Kitchen
Ojiambo, Posta and Matata Kitchen Experts
2. How’s your day like? My day starts at 4.00 am, I wake up to read and work on some class assignments. I am an MBA student, and so I have to be study. By 6.00am, I begin preparing for work – I am on my desk by 7.30am. I run through production machine check-ups with my team members and ensure all is well. Incase of a mishap, I then liaise with Christine Makena the maintenance department and schedule repair work on any faulty parts. Sometimes I get the machines fixed myself. I then spend the rest of the day facilitating my teams in oils, fats and soap production; I am literally on my feet all day. Whenever I get short breaks, I check on my mails, attend to some and facilitating with the teams in Oils, Fats & Soap Production. delegate others. By 5.30pm, most of the day’s work is done. I head to class for a two hour lesson. I then get home, refresh, have dinner and am off to bed. 3. Clearly, your day is jammed-up, how do you juggle work, class and social life? As the saying goes, ‘a person who waits for time to be available, is like one who stops the clock thinking they’ll create on more minute.’ I don’t wait for time to show-up, I create time by maximizing on my potential everyday, I plan and allocate time for everything. This helps me to accomplish much within a short time. You’ll find me on the beach on weekends where I go to unwind and have quiet time.
Frymate Chapatis
Kikambala Kitchen
4. Are you living your dream? Yes, my dream has always been, to make life better for others as well as for me. And that’s what I do. Working with diverse teams exposes me to opportunities to offer guidance to people and to learn from them as well. 5. How did you get where you are? It is a combination of many aspects, but I would summarize them as determination and never being afraid of getting my hands dirty. I also live with a ‘farmer mentality’ – patience and hard work pays off. 6. Your team has more men than women on a tilted scale, does it bother you? Why? No, it doesn’t because it makes the team different and refreshing. Men are not petty; they are more open to guidance and wouldn’t mind a confrontation here and there. It also helps me to avoid being bossy. 7. Any message to other Divas? They should always be willing to step in the field and play with the men, no matter what industry it is. They shouldn’t wait for affirmative action for a position - and be ready to have their hands soiled.
Ali -’life is full of flavour’
Steps to Overcome Procrastination
By : Neelma Shah
We all struggle with procrastination from time to time. Even the best of us get saddled with incomplete projects and moments where we just cannot move. When we’re riddled with incomplete stuff we get more stressed and out of alignment. After all, we said we’d do it, and now we’re wilting in the land of incomplete. It pulls us out of integrity and leaves us feeling bad about ourselves and dodging accountability. The good news is that you have the power to move through procrastination and bring things to completion. Here’s how to navigate the waters and move powerfully forward. 1. Have a Plan You wouldn’t go on a trip without a destination and a map, right? Same goes for projects of any size. If you think about it even making dinner is a mini experiment in project management. Set forth some clear, basic steps for yourself so you have an idea of where you are going and how to get there.
6. Just get started Feeling totally paralyzed and stuck? Do something! Do anything. One small step and any action at all will help to start propelling you forward. Think about it. When you take one step you can’t help but take another. The same holds true for getting things done. One foot in front of the other will build momentum and before you know it you’ll cover a great distance.
2. Break it Down (chunking) A journey of a thousand miles begins with just one step. No one would ever accomplish anything if all they thought about was how do I get from point A (where I am now) to point Z (where I want to go) and the massive amount of steps in between. Break things down to their simplest action and start there. Completion comes from stringing together small steps.
7. Get support One of the biggest reasons successful people, especially athletes succeed is that they enlist the help of other experts. No one can do it all alone as we are all connected. The power of the group mind is awesome.
3. No Pile Ups Don’t let stuff pile up. Besides the obvious clutter factor, all it does is lead to overwhelm. 4. Set realistic targets Optimism is fine unless it leads you to a consistent path of over committing and then panicking. Always add a buffer to all your estimates and schedules. If you can do something by next Monday, make your ‘commit date’ the following Wednesday or Friday. It is always better to over deliver and complete something early than to over promise and tarnish your reputation. 5. Reward yourself along the way (mini-milestone parties) Each day spend some time basking in what you have accomplished. Acknowledge yourself for action taken thus far. Even if you are waiting for results to materialize, you need to have some mini parties for yourself or you will feel like an underappreciated slave. How you treat yourself is a direct reflection of how successful you’ll be in the long run.
8. Mind Your Energy Your energy level is the most important part of the plan. If you have no energy, you have no forward motion and end up going nowhere. Just pushing through it is a myth. You will be more energized if you stay focused on what you DO want; and balance action and activity with inaction and quiet. Your mind and body needs this ying and yang in order to sustain the energy needed over the long haul to not only complete but also enjoy the journey of any project you undertake. Work smarter, not harder, is not just a cliché. Ask yourself: How will it feel when you have it completed? Use these powerful feelings to help propel you forward. Most importantly indulge in getting some of those feelings right now, today so you aren’t living for some “future” that may or may not arrive!
Chicken Curry
TEST YOUR BRAIN-POWER Crossword Puzzle created by: Andrew Kubai
By: Wendy Munene.
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Ingredients – Serves 4 • • • • • • • • • • •
2 tablespoons Fresh Fri oil 3 tablespoons tomato paste 1 yellow onion, sliced 2 chicken breasts, cut into cubes Salt and black pepper 1 1/2 cups broccoli 1 1/2 cups chopped carrots 400gms diced tomatoes Lime wedges, for squeezing 1 teaspoon dried basil 3 cloves garlic,
Method Cook 1 tablespoon of Fresh Fri oil, add the tomato paste and onions in a large pan and saute over medium heat, for 5 to 6 minutes. Pat the chicken dry, sprinkle with salt and pepper and add the remaining oil to the pan. Cook the chicken in the onion-curry mixture until golden on all sides. Add the broccoli, carrots, basil, garlic and lime zest and cook, stirring, until the vegetables are coated, about 2 minutes. Add the coconut milk, chicken stock and tomatoes and bring to a simmer. Let the chicken simmer until cooked through and the sauce begins to thicken, about 20 minutes. Squeeze with lime juice before serving. Served with rice or chapati, enjoy!!
1. An oil brand manufactured by Pwani. 5. An abbrev used to describe Jomvu operations. 7. Informal abbrev for flight schedule. 8. Past midday. 9. A soap brand manufactured by Pwani. 11. An automotive. 13. A feeling means a perception by the 6th sense. 10. A state in USA. 18. A letter of the sofa notation. 19. To means to spill as of liquid such as fresh fri. 20. A commonly used preposition. 21. The most significant investment at Pwani this year. 22. A debit balance in the bank. 23. A desert island. 24. Noun abbrev used before defining further. 25. A major intermediary derived from crude palm oil and used in production of soap.
Down 2. Attention to detail. 3. An acknowledgement of debt. 4. Abbrev used in most soap to describe the quantification of fatty content contained therein. 5. The industry within which Pwani operates. 6. Verified or endorsed for sale to the consumers. 10. Former. 12. Not manual. 14. The present form of was. 15. A major intermediary used for manufacture of oils such as salit, fresh fri and popco. 16. The most horrible. 17. One of the earliest IT hardware companies. 22. The most commonly used word at the ICC to describe an evidence tag name. 24. A department within Pwani.
NEW TEAM MEMBER Pwani welcomes John Mwangi who has joined as Marketing Manager on 6th Feb 2012. John holds a BSc IBA from USIU specializing in marketing and brings with him vast experience from Ogilvy EA where he worked as a Channel Planner. He has also worked in Nestle Kenya Ltd in various capacity in Sales & Marketing Functions from 2008 to 2010.