Sorry, I missed writing the blog on 22nd and 23rd, partly because there's nothing very specific and partly because I was lazy.
Last two days and today I spoke at length with
A. Vijayawada center in-charge
B. Marketing head
C. MD
D. Chief bio-chemist and reviewed the pending work and various issues.
With VJA in-charge: He is my relative and a B.Tech (Comp science ) graduate with no prior experience joined in June while I was in India. He's sincere and hard-working hopefully will be of great help once he learns and understands the nuances of this business as we move along in this business,
While I was in India, the VJA server hard disk failed in September and the data was lost....and we had only backup upto April. The data couldn't be recovered....we needed to key in all the data (fortunately we've manual records also ) which was finished...but the data needs to be massaged. This work was given to the center-in-charge and it's still not finished. Stressed the need to finish this task asap...
We're about to start doing all the Microbiology related tests at VJA center and all the machinery and material is now available and there looks a part-time Microbiologist available and hopefully will start in a day or two.
A small issue between a senior Marketing executive and the new Marketing in-charge was discussed with a conference call with them and hopefully it's been resolved now...the new Mkt in-charge don't have faith on this fellow but as I know this marketing fellow seems to be genuine...but let's see how this goes.
Discussed about the manpower requirement and various jobs which needs to be streamlined in all the labs with the Lab's chief. The important one being to streamline all processes inside VJA lab with the new Sr. Bio-chemist joining next month after our earlier sr. bio-chemist left....
We got to have sufficient well trained man-power to run the show at all the labs even when one or two sr.people leave....we always (as the number of centers have grown now ..we're clearly seeing the need to keep a std.by ) have been struggling with this ...not keeping a buffer but with thie new Sr. Bio-chemist joining and with our Chief being in std.by we should be able to resolve this issue to most part. And all these manpower should be well trained and experienced..
At each lab we always should have one Sr.Chemist and one Sr.Tech and among all 5 labs there should be one Sr.Bio-chemist stad.by and 2 Sr. Tech std.by
Explained to the marketing in-charge to send me the list of each PROs responsibilities and their areas and targets.Sales and marketing also should be much streamlined starting from Jan so I can make each marketing person accountable to their work....now I don't have much handle on each of these 25/30 people what they're doing....
Also I've created a new excel for the Nellore coordinaor to fill in daily, which will give us a complete daily picture of the business. Once this is implemented at Nellore, will move to other centers also.
It all looks to me, running a business is also a mind-game....the success to the most part (apart from being all the external factors are favourable ) depend on how focused the in-charge (CEO) is and how much familiarity he has with the day-to-day operations and work activities....otherwise, there looks a very good danger the ship may run aimless without clear focus...as he's chief anchor and his energy is utmost important for the team and to keep the business active and with energy...
Today is Sunita's off and we watched Telugu movie 'Anjaneyulu'...our passtime and orderd a pizza and went for shopping at Khols and OldNavy to get some bargain rates...
Good night !
Mohan Raju
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