Wednesday, October 28, 2009

A New Dawn Beckons

“Our mission is to cement Zain as a top-ten global mobile operator by 2011, one that provides a world-class service to our customers wherever they are. With a primary focus on achieving excellent returns for our shareholders that is consistent with a high standard of corporate governance, we are nonetheless defined by our commitment to delivering excellence, living by our core values and strengthening our culture of corporate social responsibility.”

In January, 2007, Zain launched ACE, an implementation strategy designed to realize the 3x3x3 targets. ACE seeks to extract superior value through Accelerating growth in Africa, Consolidating existing assets, and Expanding into adjacent markets. Through ACE, Zain aims to reach US$6 Billion EBITDA and 150 million customers, two milestones that will position the company among the world’s top ten mobile telecom companies.

We are now entering the final three years of this expansion strategy. It will be a new and dynamic chapter in our history, one that will be marked by high growth opportunities. We have to play fast but also play smart, and to do this we have initiated ‘Drive11’, a strategy that will maximize economies of scale and improve our operating efficiencies. We will focus on our customer-facing services and commercial activities, while centralizing or outsourcing some back-office and non-core functions to strategic partners, as well as re-training and further developing our existing personnel.

‘Drive11’ comes at a critical stage of the company’s 3x3x3 vision and is a natural consequence of Zain’s evolutionary journey. It will allow Zain to create genuine market differentiation through the services we offer and deliver on our Zain brand promise of ‘A wonderful world’.

All these new exciting strategies will be carried out under the banner of our new global identity. The Zain brand took nearly two years to create. It is fresh, bold and energetic and has the strength, not only to cement us as a global brand, but to inspire loyalty and affection among the millions of customers across all our operations.

‘Drive11’ will also be carried out in line with our sacred core values of Heart, Radiance and Belonging, values which should be common to all of us, but which we have adopted as our corporate ethos to share with our colleagues and customers, all of whom are, like Zain, progressive achievers and dedicated to realizing their goals.

We will also not lose sight of our role as a global citizen, building, supporting, providing for, working with, and strengthening communities wherever we go. We take our social responsibilities seriously and this means we must reinforce our role in the community beyond merely providing world-class telecommunication technologies and services.

Finally I would like to thank you for visiting the Zain website. I hope the content we provide will satisfy your requirements and look forward to reading your comments and suggestions.

Monday, October 12, 2009

What Is Knowledge Society ?

The term Knowledge Society refers to any society where knowledge is the primary production resource instead of capital and labor. It may also refer to the use a certain society gives to information.
Source: Wikipedia ,free encyclopedia

It is a society in which the conditions for generating knowledge and processing information have been substantially changed by a technological revolution focused on information processing, knowledge generation, and information technologies.
Source:Manuel Castells

It is a society where economic, social, cultural, and all other human activities become dependent on a huge volume of knowledge and information.
Source:Wikipedia, free encyclopedia

What Is Knowledge Society

The term Knowledge Society refers to any society where knowledge is the primary production resource instead of capital and labor. It may also refer to the use a certain society gives to information.
Source: Wikipedia

It is a society in which the conditions for generating knowledge and processing information have been substantially changed by a technological revolution focused on information processing, knowledge generation, and information technologies.
Source:Manuel Castells

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

ATTITUDE

I returned home from church on Sunday only to see a bewildered mother narrating her story of how her son was used for appreciation in the new trend that has engulfed our youth "sakawa". The story caught my attention and so I decided to precedences to what was being telecast when I heard her narrating the pain she went through seeing her son practically rot to death made me feel like releasing some 'tongues' on the culprits for doing such an unspeakable thing to an innocent young man.
But when she was to give her advice to the youth she made a statement that alarmed me and it is upon this that I have decided to write these words to the youth of GHANA.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

What is Information Society?

Information Society is a situation where knowledge-based services are transformed into the central structure of the new economy and of an information-led society
Author :Daniel Bell (A United States Sociologist)
Name of Book:The Coming of Post-Industrial Society

Information Society is a specific form of social organization in which information generation, processing, and transmission are transformed into the fundamental sources of productivity and power.
Credit :Manuel Castells one of the researchers to have most developed this theme

An information society is a society where the majority of employees work in information jobs, i.e. they have to deal more with information, signals, symbols, and images than with energy and matter.
Credit :Bell Peter Otto and Philipp Sonntag (1985)