Met Jenny on my way to work this morning and she asked me if i know so n so from marketing is leaving. Told her not that i heard of and went buy my breakfast. While i was in the pantry getting my coffee, i heard it from the horse's mouth...we had a long chat about the business model, about the company's alignment with suppliers, about the company's direction, about sales's mindset etc etc Interesting and challenging...and it's back to work again. It's rather quiet in my "lorong" cos Anthea and Jasmine are both on medical leave..and i guess it's back to hectic days..after the dreamy "hiatus from work" in December..cos' everyone hardly speaks to each other, eyes fixated on the screen.
Chinyiang said USA might be going into recession..this will affects business. Anyway 80% of his time are spent doing expediting and he has virtually no time to clear his emails...and i thought of this analogy.
a) expedite current buying parts to meet numbers
If we spent all our time expediting because: purchase orders with short lead time, specialists sitting in HK are not able to get a response from suppliers, more convenient to send an email to marketing - "please help because the date remains"...
-> it's like we make an investment and since it is meeting our target earnings, we stop scouring the market for better investments.
b) work with FAE and sales people to design-in more parts
This is like sowing the seeds to get returns in the long run. Otherwise, when those parts that we have been expediting EOL one day, we are not going to get any share in the pie..since evaluation takes awhile.
-> it's like diversifying our investment. We don't just invest in Bio-science industry just cos' it's hot currently, we maximise and balance off the risk by spreading our investments in other industries as well.
Anyway that would be common sense but PM really have no luxury of time to stay focused and perhaps sane.
Wii is arriving next week :)
For now, it's back to watching 881 a second time. I am beginning to like Hokkien...have always thought of this dialect as rather vulgar and "rough" especially the vulgarities but this show changed my opinion :) Hokkien songs are rather nice and catchy
Cheers to more good times to come, Rubes, thank you for telling me it's going to be another good year for those born in the year of the dragon. And it's disgusting that we are getting a straight good two years hahaha but hurray i am feeling lucky already.
(Oh dear, forgive me for being superstitious heehee)
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Thank you for sharing as always. Please keep posting.
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