Wish you had Data?

Wish you had Data?

Don’t be perplexed! Sometime in March 2019 I posted the message via Instagram about Data— find/click the link below.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BvF-YRMl37x/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Apparently by now we know that Data scarcity is one of the major bottlenecks for changes; but an interesting question is — Have you used the data you have already? The reason is simple: data, or the lack of it and its use is why some change projects fail.

Pre-COVID we have been evangelizing about the 4th Industrial Revolution and the Internet of Things (IoT)… Its birthed itself! And the realities of this is the conversion of skills. Your passions and purposes have forever been disrupted!

You have to ‘redistribute the same energy’ to play in this era or you have already self-eject. I remember when I preached for long to some organisations to get to start the augmentation process that would have cost nothing.

Automation has and will continue to define the future of work, globally. As with all global trends, there are important regional nuances. Africa and Nigeria in particular faces specific challenges that will impact how the future of work evolves.

Religions, Firms, economies, governments, and societies have been challenged and will constantly be challenged and transformed. Despite apocalyptic predictions, the full implications of automation are still unknown. Change will come in waves that include currently unrealized technologies.

All firms are in a difficult position: Act too slow and risk falling behind; act too quickly and generate unnecessary complexity and confusion.

As we ride the wave I will strive to communicate insights on the following:

1. Pragmatic view of the future of work in Nigeria— how considerations such as talent pool distribution will impact the pace of change. 
2. Discover what organisations can do now to stay in front of the automation revolution.
3. The Return to Business-As-Usual

Remember do not let anyone claim mastery of understanding the pandemic! No one living has experienced COVID-19 before now… 

You've got Data? 

Mid Management decimate Organisations more…

Mid Management formations will kill more organisations and projects now and Post-COVID.

Most times the failures of Organisations and Projects are mostly perpetrated by the exonerated middle management positions who would do everything possible to abort submissions/solutions of sub-ordinates and unconnected external personnel. Some never allow the use of a new idea or suggestion coming from the bottom or outside the organisation for the fear of change in the Business-as-Usual.

Short of a decade ago I was I.T. Project Manager of a team that helped deliver a great solution in the shortest possible time for a Nigerian Bank. Lessons learned from that Project opened up research areas in Digital Strategies for Banks with focusing on the Nigerian side of things.

With that research on Digital strategies and Agile in mind I expended resources to carry out the research tailoring it to 3 Nigerian Banks specifically. Complete and armed with Digital Strategies and a Novel Agile Framework (This got an APM UK Award) that would certainly reflect profits in the P&L at the end of every financial year I sent them in to the 3 banks.

Only 1 out of the 3 banks gave a reply to implement in parts because I had even offered to implement incrementally for free at first.

Tailored eBusiness Framework — Effiong Attai, 2014

Today and most importantly during this COVID era the Bank that implemented this framework had seen bottom lines add up and will triple the bottom line this season. On the other hand, with recent analysis one of the Banks that supposedly trashed my submission have struggled for some share of the market for the past 4 years and most especially this COVID era.

Although some of these failures for organisations do not come from the Leader they are a result of some mid management cogs on the wheels of progress of such organisations.

In order to ascertain the damage these mid-management cogs cause for organisations I also carried out a Hypothetical test of Management Buy-in and Project successes with syndicated samples of over 100 from these banks .

The two tailed Pearson correlation test that was performed alongside the description, significant correlation and scatter plot between management Buy-in and Project Successes showed in the results that Management Buy-in and Project Successes are strongly correlated with r(22) = .748, p<0.000026 and was under the 99% confidence level.

Now more than ever company organograms will have to be peeled and flattened to allow Agility. Organizational bureaucracy would be overcome slowly but not having a digital strategy and executing these things highlights will allow the Big Banks get bigger in the e-Space and the small will get smaller.

Corona Chronicles -Thank You Corona

Thank You Coro...
Thank You Corona for you have remastered the tapes we've been playing to the actors for a longtime.
Thank You Corona for poising what then really matters.
You have discombobulated the configurations
Making Diviners Mad

Religion Rephrased
Economies Eschewed
Secured seeking security
Money mourning
United Nations not united afterall
Common wealth is on Common death
G8 is ginning

Corona you emptied The Vatican!
You caused restrictions in Jerusalem.
Oh Corona You 
Halted Hajj
Mecca is mending. 
Synagogues, Churches and Mosques have banned services (what happens to Tithes and Offerings)
The Hindu River Ganges is still flowing

But 
Please Coro Coro.. 
You cannot leave without visiting members of the Nigerian National Assembly, 
The Governors and state Assemblies.
No Coro you have to pass through them... and they pass through you Coro!
So the survivors will build the remains of the Nigeria they have preached!

Thank You Coro...

Effiong writes for the Corona Chronicles

In other news If Nigerian Church leaders can lead the way they just did yesterday by conducting Physical services... do not question failings of the Nigerian government... They are all accomplices in the decadence and destruction!

Self Isolation

Seasons have their lexicons; with this season has been the words;

• Lockdown
• Corona virus
• Stockpiling
• Hoarding
• FTSE 500
• Grounded
• Self isolation
• Quarantine e.t.c

Particularly, the most used word apart from the Corona Virus will be Self Isolation!

The word isolated comes from the Latin word Insula, which means island. By that definition it is imperative to say that spending time on an Island presents some form refreshment to the soul.

While Isolation may imply being alone, let me Introduce the word SOLITUDE. Both words may imply being alone and similar in definition but are very different in such great extents.

Isolation is usually activated or forced by external extremities BUT Solitude comes as a result of the personal intrinsic choices.

As the tide of self isolation passes, that is the first phase... I would love you to move on to the Solitude! 

For you know by now that energy can neither be created nor destroyed but converted from one form to another... Solitude allows for expansion and freedom of thought, providing the chance to soar above the ordinary in order to come back to the world refreshed and reinvigorated. Isolation contracts the walls and makes a prison, draining the will and leaving you exhausted.

Anthony Storr puts it this way - “The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.” 

  

If Only

If only your Governors had built Roads,

If only your Governors had built Schools, 

If only your Governors had built Markets,

If only your Governors had built Hospitals,

If only your Governors had developed your states!

But;

They built their Pockets,

They built their Roughs,

They built their Mansions,

They built their Parties!

If only you could ask them;

But you can't ask them!

You can't speak for they have

Positioned the Police and Minted the military into the Fabrics of their fallacies

For You have oh Nigeria

Con Cronies of the Colonies in the Corners and Corridors of Power worse than the corona!

As the other parts of the world ravage in Corona... Nigeria would have been the best travel destination for the west... But your Governors! they killed your states.

Since 1999... Over 20 years your states regressed based on the monies that passed through them

Notably, Rivers, Bayelsa , Akwa Ibom, Delta States have no business being poor or having unemployment rates as they do...

But 

If Only you knew...

The Oxymoron of Jobs - Government

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves.
To stop being conned, stop conning yourself. James Wolcott

Its clearly an Oxymoron - Jobs and Poverty to be tackled by the Nigerian Government. 

It's insanity to think that the Nigerian government can and will create Jobs! Doing the same things since 1960 and expecting different results in 2020.

The underlying notion of such proposal by the 'rulers in office' that they can create jobs and the government can solve poverty — is riddled and an economic fallacy.

The logic underpinning a government jobs creation program or a so-called poverty alleviation program was best epitomized by an advocate who declared that, “The goal in and of itself is job creation. You create the job to fit the person.” and Julius Nyerere illuminatingly submits that “Capitalism means that the masses will work, and a few people – who may not labour at all – will benefit from that work. The few will sit down to a banquet, and the masses will eat whatever is left over”!

I guess every Nigerian except the Governors, Senators, Reps, LGA 'Chairs', and the Bigger Animals of the Assemblies will agree that the previous paragraph mirrors the alleviation Program of the Nigerian state. Interestingly, employment is not an end in and of itself. Instead, it is a means to an end: namely the increased standard of living that the worker obtains by trading his labour for wages.

In a free market, employment is a value creation process — with jobs stemming from the wants and needs of consumers as conveyed through the price system. It is this productive nature of free-market jobs that make them desirable and capable of increasing a worker’s standard of living.

Wages spring directly from, and are proportional to, the degree in which a job creates wealth by helping to satisfy an unmet need. As is the case for all mutually-agreeable trades in a free market, both sides gain and wealth is created: the worker receives wages that he values more than his labour and the consumer receives a product or service he values more than its price.

In other words, a worker’s wages are reflective of the additional wealth he helped create, which enables his newly improved standard of living. Thus, government-created jobs are devoid of this wealth creation process, they are merely a transfer of wealth from taxpayers to the program’s beneficiaries.

This is made clear by taking the argument to its logical conclusion and considering a government proposal that paid one set of workers to dig ditches and the other set to fill them back in. While there would be a virtually unlimited number of jobs that could be created under such a program, there is clearly no value creation of any kind. Throwback to Abuja, a government regime paid contractors to build speed breakers on the roads and next regime came along and paid for its removal.

Thus, a government-mandated job omits the very thing that makes employment desirable in the first place — Value creation.

Church and Labels; Your Reputation and Business - Continued

Church and Labels; Your Reputation and Business ...Continued

She kindly asks... So what did you hear? I replied; Nothing.

She stayed on the phone a bit longer and then ...I heard something and I am going to report this to the Pastor she replied. That was when I felt apparently she had heard the gossip. I wasn't going to stop her from reporting to the Pastor.

Fast forward few weeks later the Pastor is back and I am summoned from my office one sunny afternoon to meet with the Pastor at the church office. 

At the church office:

After some office rituals I am asked to wait and I will be called when its my turn.

My turn comes...

I open the door into the Pastor's office and some people I have never had interactions with before are seated in a Sanhedrin-like gathering. 

And straight to the matter... 

The Scroll is opened on the SLEEPING matter:

Pastor: Do you know this lady? pointing to the supposed 'SLEPT'

Me: Yes Sir. She is my friend

Pastor: Did you sleep with this woman?

Me: No Sir.

And the door to the Sanhedrin-like gathering was opened for me to leave.

And I went back to the office Just like that.

Days turned to weeks, weeks turned to months and there was no information on the outcome of the Judgement. There was no calling back for apologies nor salvaging the reputation of the exposed.

The case went AWOL!

Apparently or would I say interestingly the case went AWOL for very 'important reasons'. It went AWOL because a Sanhedrin Member was on a Hamster Wheel chase of my Friend who will not stoop to be conquered. 

Surprisingly, The Sanhedrin Member who loved my friend that much was Jealous I had a friendship with the woman he has always wanted! And just as Joseph Addison says “Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.''.

On that note the Sanhedrin member went to work... He hired the best connivance in another well profiled partner who would have loved to love me if also I would have stooped to be conquered.

And so they went to work.

Years after the harm was done in church... The scroll opened in church... Judgement denied in church... Reputation smeared beyond the Church... Our lives and businesses have transcended that space and gathering in time.

The Holy Book says in Ephesians 5:16...So watch your step. Use your head. Make the most of every chance you get. These are desperate times! 

They can gather to smear your business repute... Its desperate times for them