>
> @William, your emails always break the threads - how come?
>
> ./Ok3ch
Hmm, I had not noticed that. I looked around and I suspect its the way I edit the digest mail subject.

Did this one work better?

Muriithi
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 5:54 PM, William Muriithi
> <william.muriithi@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Let me just asking, with all the talk of Safaricom being called the most
> >> innovative company, and the fact that they attract some very brilliant IT
> >> mind, couldn't they just develop and run this system?
> >>
> >> Big telecom like AT&T and Verizon and other develop and maintain their
> >> system, I don't see why Safaricom has to outsource.
> >>
> >> I know that buzz word nowadays it outsourcing, but something, especially
> >> things that involve money are better run in-house.
> >>
> >> Safaricom is being reduced to a consumer of technology and vendor of
> >> scratch-cards.
> > Remind me of another industry that had this kind of fetish, the airline
> > industry.
> >
> > They thought selling ticket was not their core industry, so they sold off
> > that part and the booking computers to some other companies. They have
> > regretted that decision since then. The booking companies has been
> > profitable at their expense since and the airlines have barely broken half
> > of that time. There was an article on economist last year on how this fucked
> > then up and their unsuccessful attempts to reverse it.
> >
> > People, we need to stop drinking MBA dogma. Short term profits at expense of
> > sustainability
> >
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 08:33:34 -0800
> From: Clare N <101stylz@gmail.com>
> To: skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke
> Subject: [Skunkworks] Massive Recruitment by the IEBC (148 Positions)
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> Circulate...
> www.kenyancareer.com/2012/03/massive-recruitment-by-iebc-148.html
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> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:41:39 +0300
> From: Calvin Omari <calvinebarongo@gmail.com>
> To: Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke>
> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Massive Recruitment by the IEBC (148
>         Positions)
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> Hi
>
> seen this in the advert
> /*Applications must be received on or before 30st March 2012.*/
>
> regards
> Calvin
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Clare N <101stylz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Circulate...
> > www.kenyancareer.com/2012/03/massive-recruitment-by-iebc-148.html
> > --
> > Procrastination is always the greatest hurdle to change
> >
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> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:58:43 +0300
> From: Njoroge Tito <titonjoroge@gmail.com>
> To: Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke>
> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Safaricom gets vendor to run higher capacity
>         M-Pesa platform in Kenya
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> Philip,
>
> No doubt that diversification is a brilliant strategy to survive.
>
> Very few operators own patents to technology. The technology in the telecom
> space is largely owned by equipment vendors. Safaricom diversified from
> Voice into data, but did not need to develop their own 3G/LTE technology to
> do that. They simply deployed that technology that has been developed by
> other people.
>
> In order to survive telecom companies need to leverage the different
> technologies available, and deliver these as products to the consumers.
>
> If there is a disruptive idea like mpesa, then this can be developed
> internally - or in collaboration with third parties. At one point though,
> it would probably be easier for the telco to license/buy that technology
> from a third party than continue developing it.
>
> Also note that nowadays, telecom vendors also have mobile money products
> that could possibly deliver same functionality as Mpesa or even more
> enhanced features.
>
> Regards,
> Tito
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 13 February 2013 12:58, Philip Musyoki <pmusyoki@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > @Njoroge,
> >
> > No one dispute's what Safaricom's core business is. But you can never hope
> > to grow to a be a company of global consequence if you stick comfortable to
> > your 'core' business.
> >
> > Just to give you a few example I am sure you are familiar with:
> >
> > Apple's core business was making computers for consumer. And when they saw
> > demand for portable music player and later phone, the innovated their way
> > in to new markets and now those 'new' product lines comprise a larger
> > percentage of their revenues that the original 'core' business. Nokia may
> > have fallen in to hard time, and using them may sound not proper, but their
> > core business once was making boots. And later they because the largest
> > cell-phone manufacturer, albeit for a brief fleeting moment.
> >
> > Google's core business was search, that didn't stop them from working
> > first on Chrome OS and later Android.
> >
> > There many examples of companies that have grown out of their core
> > businesses to be market leaders in newer business lines.
> >
> > And very few have done it successfully through outsourcing everything. The
> > core function of R&D and software development and services have remained
> > with these companies.
> >
> > I am not saying Safaricom is not already a good telecom company, it is.
> > But they have saturated the market with their 'core' business and any
> > future growth will have t come from new products and technologies. And
> > these can better be developed in-house. They can outsource non-critical
> > tasks like logistics and warehousing.
> >
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> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:01:08 -0800
> From: Clare N <101stylz@gmail.com>
> To: Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke>,
>         calvine_barongo@yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Massive Recruitment by the IEBC (148
>         Positions)
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> Sorry bout that.
> Fatal error :-)
> On Feb 13, 2013 7:42 PM, "Calvin Omari" <calvinebarongo@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > seen this in the advert
> > /*Applications must be received on or before 30st March 2012.*/
> >
> > regards
> > Calvin
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Clare N <101stylz@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Circulate...
> >> www.kenyancareer.com/2012/03/massive-recruitment-by-iebc-148.html
> >> --
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