Enterprise Survey 2014
Malawi, 2014 - 2015
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hc5x - Please describe in detail this establishment’s main innovative process (hc5x)
Data file: malawi_2014_innovation_data_
Overview
Valid:
125
Type:
Discrete
Start:
212
End:
374
Width:
163
Format:
Questions and instructions
Question pretext
The next questions refer to this establishment's main innovative process, that is, the innovative process that had the largest impact on the operations of the establishment.
Literal question
Please describe in detail this establishment's main innovative process
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| South marketing products. over the Internet | |
| They have introduced lamination | |
| We now have coaches going to South Africa | |
| automate system of manufacturing towels | |
| automated bulk rice milling machine | |
| automated concrete mixer | |
| automated manufacturing of fortified likuni phala | |
| automated rubber converters making machine | |
| automated system of making electric conduit pipes | |
| automated wax manufacturing machine | |
| bringing in new models of vehicles | |
| by introducing computer system. | |
| company recently bought a crushing plant which is a new product making it easy to source quarry for its projects. | |
| computerised highteck passport photo printing machine | |
| constructed a new and bigger shop for better customer serving | |
| construction we have embarked on it and still improving on that | |
| customer care and goods | |
| customer recapturing. bringing in new ways to help customers | |
| delivering goods to customers | |
| delivering goods to customers that buy large quantities | |
| delivering product to customers for free | |
| each room now have television | |
| electric timber smoothing machine | |
| employees more skilled workers | |
| free delivery to customers on every fridge purchase | |
| from counting goods manually to using computers | |
| from using desktop computers to laptops | |
| from vehicle patrol to computerised vehicle tracking system | |
| improved customer care and using ICT in transacting business and reaching out to new customers | |
| improved parts and new look of the tankers | |
| improved service between this campany and malawi revenues authority | |
| in terms of delivery it used to take twoo weeks to deliver but now its one week aldo the availability of forex helped in increased speed of delivery from suppliers | |
| in the first used only glasses now they are selling alluminium trellidors | |
| it does not need a lot of people and machinery | |
| its now easy for us to use electrical machine than to use manual | |
| making metal appliances from scrap metal and forged metal | |
| making profiles from aluminium instead of glasses | |
| making soft drink from malambe fruit | |
| manual now using computerised machines which gives quality produce | |
| marking same big from semo | |
| mobile money | |
| new accommodation and service | |
| new equipment for processing plastic materials | |
| new machinary to produce paints | |
| new machines | |
| new package machine | |
| no charges | |
| no process | |
| no process done | |
| none | |
| now using electric stores fro. gas stoves for cooking | |
| point of sale software | |
| renovations done on our structures to create a conducive environment for our customers | |
| she had no house now she has | |
| since we are now using forklift this has helped us fixing many cars . | |
| since we now have photocopy and priting machines we now making alot of money. | |
| state of the art back up system | |
| telecommunication. marketing products online | |
| the intrction of verious design of new plasma television | |
| the selling of both old and new stuff | |
| the use of new machine in production to produce finished products, like cigarettes. | |
| there is absolutly change frm alodge to offices | |
| they are doing door to door deliveries | |
| they are now making sausages from small cuts of meat which they once said was waste | |
| they changed the machines they were using | |
| they changed the way they manufacture yoghurt | |
| they have inproved in logisticts since they were not deliver goods for customers so now they do | |
| they improved in their printing department by buying new machines | |
| they introduced hot air guns | |
| they introduced new paints | |
| they introduced twitter take overs | |
| they restructured the collective centre | |
| they started to use subdistributors | |
| they upgraded their computers | |
| they used manual but now theyare using computers | |
| they were on lower catigory now they are on high catigory | |
| this chair are not popular in our local market | |
| to specialized equipment | |
| using computer for accounting | |
| using laptops instead of desktop computers | |
| we also manufacturin bran bas. | |
| we are now selling 5 litres oil while before we didn't have | |
| we are now transporting our goods buy air ,while we used to use road | |
| we are now using an electric photocopy machine again we are now stocking secondary books and novels | |
| we deliver and install goods to the clients | |
| we deliver foods for customers when they bought goods for more than 100 000 kwacha | |
| we do door to door deliver | |
| we had to make alot of money since our work was easy because ofthe work shop | |
| we have computers in each office | |
| we have electronic way of dealing withbsales | |
| we have now introduced online consultancy programmes | |
| we have started to do some fitting jobs for some of our products | |
| we help to identify paints on behalf of our clients | |
| we import tiles and bath tabs from China and South Africa | |
| we introduce njati cement because we wanted to make more money | |
| we introduced a software in which we use spreadsheets to scan invoices and are changing to conduct business electronically n using the internet | |
| we introduced is inorder to make more money | |
| we introduced new packeging skills from manual machines to automatic- | |
| we introduced this shoe because mary people came into our shop ask 4 rubber shoes. | |
| we itrodudce this chair because there we allmost new to the local markert | |
| we lntroduce this system because we wanted to do more work. | |
| we moved from just selling construction material to constructing | |
| we not do hiring | |
| we now do a full day hire whereas we used to charge in hours | |
| we now do color printing instead of black and white | |
| we now do deliveries | |
| we now give our clients thanks giving gifts when they leave the lodge | |
| we now have company cars | |
| we now have computers | |
| we now have computers in each office, | |
| we now have computers, we have 5 offices in the Country and 2 offices outside the Country. | |
| we now have our own shops selling vegetables only | |
| we now have some staff that we delivery and we are doing fitting on some of the hardware staff | |
| we now make bread with raisins | |
| we now offer free delivery all over the country | |
| we now offer pay after service | |
| we now offer side tables to those who buy tables | |
| we now sell solar fan and energy saver bulbs | |
| we now selling chicken, and sausages while before we were selling beef only. Again we are selling groceries on the other side to attract more and more customers:-) | |
| we sell antilipecimix and double cellulose are the ones who are selling more | |
| we used to carry engine we chain and now we use forklift | |
| we used to have small cars only but now we have minibuses and some of best cars, and we now have trucks. | |
| we used to sell nsima, rice and chips, but now we have got ice cream and pizza on top of that | |
| we used to use hand labour to make the soap now we use machinery | |
| when we introduce these chairs the company had make more money |
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.