Enterprise Survey 2013
Kenya, 2013 - 2014
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Describe in detail firm’s main innovative process (hc5x)
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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.
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Please describe in detail this establishment's main innovative process
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| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| A New Method Of Distributing Our Products | |
| Accounting Changed From Manual To Computer System | |
| Accounting Changes. | |
| Accounting System Initially Digital And Now Corporate Into One. | |
| Acquired A New Cnc Machine | |
| Adding on technology on industrial design. | |
| Additional Of More Vehicles To Increase Service Delivery Thus On Time Delivery And Wider Accessibility To Customers | |
| After renovation...the manager thought of transporting the goods to their customers... | |
| Atm Card Payment Method | |
| Automated The Method Of Mixing And Packaging Of The Dairy Feeds | |
| Bought New Machine Which Is Used To Produce New Pharmaceutical Drugs. | |
| Bought a new machine that is better than the previously used for pumping water for proper manufacturing of the product. | |
| Bought a new machine that is efficient and has improved the quality of production | |
| Bought some new machines that are more effective. | |
| Brought In New Products In The Market | |
| Buy new machines & employ skilled workers inorder to make Angle line flats used for making doors. | |
| Buying Of New Equipment And Vehicles | |
| COMPUTERIZATION OF PAYMENTS | |
| Cargo clearance, we transfer manifested cargo from the port to focus CFS pending clearance. We have the relevant government agencies including KRA KEBS and the kenya police located within the CFS to facilitate clearance. | |
| Changed The Accounting Package From Quick Books To Pastel. | |
| Computed All The Firms Operations .E.G. Record Keeping | |
| Computer Introduction For Logistics And Record Keeping Hence Improving Efficiency | |
| Computerization Of A Smart Way Software Which We Came Up With. | |
| Constructing Of Rental Houses As A Source Of Extra Income | |
| Created A New Accounting Unit With New Software'S. | |
| Data back up service in conjuntion with safaricom for Data recovering | |
| Delivering Of Goods To The Customers Destination | |
| Delivering Of Motor Vehicle Spare Parts To Our Customers. | |
| Delivering Of Our Products And Services To Our Clients | |
| Delivering Of Products To Client And Customers. | |
| Delivering our services to customers | |
| Delivery Of Farm Inputs | |
| Distributing To New Market | |
| Distribution | |
| Door delivery services to our customers and online marketing. | |
| Electronic Billing System | |
| Employ Skilled Employees & Bought New Machine Which Was Used To Make Vox Man Trucks & Buses | |
| Employed workers for sorting the product for quality purpose | |
| Erp New Accounting System- Digitalized Different From Manuals. | |
| Goods Are Now Delivered By Courier Services | |
| Had To Contract Sumicombi, Muphy Zole, Muphy Lick & Muphy Salt Block Then Muphy Had To Buy Inputs For Them To Process. All These Are Animal Products | |
| Home Deliveries If Drugs | |
| Hotel and resturant (service) | |
| Import Directly From India | |
| Importing goods then they distribute to their clients. | |
| Improving the accounting system from manual to computerised and computerising the entire procurement department. | |
| Increased The Delivery Fleet So That Delivery Is Prompt And The Product Is Still Fresh When It Gets To The Client. | |
| Installation of DSTV connection in the rooms due to customers demand which had an impact in terms of income and also improved our services | |
| Intrduction of cctv cameras to upgrade the security system. | |
| Introduce a software machine for processing sodium sindicate which uses low amount of electricty and give quality product. | |
| Introduced A Generic Slab For Construction. | |
| Introduced A New Accounting And Billing Method That Is Electronic | |
| Introduced A New Way Of Hiring And Dismissing Permanent And Casual Employees | |
| Introduced A Software For Bookkeeping Know As Coop Works. | |
| Introduced Faster And Timely Delivery Of Services | |
| Introduced Manufacture Of Standard Gauge Iron Sheet Which Uses Different Software On The Process Of Melting And Reshaping Product Being Produced Than Iron Sheet | |
| Introduced New Machine Instead Of Working Manually | |
| Introduced Online Sales Where Customers Can Make Orders Through The Web | |
| Introduced a new method for cutting quality shapes | |
| Introducing A New Paint Which Is Used To Painting Outside Which Is Weather Guard Known Wall Master | |
| Introduction Loyalty Smart Card For Loyal Customers To Increase Sales And Reward Them | |
| Introduction Of A New Line Of Producing Plastic Chairs , The Company Never Used To Produce The Same | |
| Introduction Of A One Year Guarantee Repair Of Electronics | |
| Introduction Of Biometric Machine Which Is Used To Track All Employees In And Out The Establishment. | |
| Introduction Of Computer Software To Make Accounting Faster And Keeping Records | |
| Introduction Of Designing Aluminum To Beautify Front Of Shops | |
| Introduction Of Different Meals And Beverages | |
| Introduction Of Erp Which Is A New Accounting Software With New Controls. This Includes Internal Manufacturing Controls. | |
| Introduction Of Exercise And Text Books Printing | |
| Introduction Of Ezee System On Reservation Desk Which Monitor Apartments Revenue By Rooms On A Central System. | |
| Introduction Of New Machinery And Equipment | |
| Introduction of ERP which is a new accounting software with new controls.This includes internal manufacturing controls. | |
| It Improve The Sales | |
| It Is In The Cutting Of The Aluminum, Because Of The Delicate Nature Of Aluminum, It Requires Alot Of Care When Cutting Or Drilling Holes. So We Have Invested In Digital Cutting & Drilling Machines Which Freeze The Metal And Produce The Perfect | |
| It Offers Transport Services And Also Rent Their Buses To People Who Have Different Functions | |
| It had adapted to Enterprise Resource Planning and value addition in fish processing. | |
| It was the serving food to customers process we changed to self service where the customer pays first to the cashier they are issued with a receipt then they present the receipt to the kitchen where they are served and carry their food themselv | |
| Its A Service That'S New To Our Customers ,We Make For Them Company Seals According To Their Specifications, We Have Already Trained Two Of Our Employees To Work On This | |
| Look For Taxi Drivers Who Operate From Airport To The Hotel Later They Pay Them As Agreed. | |
| Machine Processors | |
| Main Innovative Is Manufacturing Of Standard Packaging Bag Which Is Made From Bio Graded Tiles Component. | |
| Maintenance system-Assist in conservation of the resources they have,its cost effective | |
| Making Track Suits By Themselves & Selling In Their Premises | |
| Managerial Process | |
| Manufacturing Of Metals Utensils E.G. Sufuria | |
| Manufacturing Wood | |
| Networked The Computer System | |
| New And Latest Fish Filleting Machines For Fresh And Defrost Fish. This Filleting Process Is Automated By Using High End Machines Which Makes The Process Of Filleting Efficient And Effective. | |
| New Balancing Alignment. | |
| New Methods Of Delivery To Buyers. And New Methods Of Payment | |
| New Transportation Routes To Other Countries... | |
| Outsourcing From Others | |
| Portioning Of Products In Order To Meet Customers Needs | |
| Process Is No Longer Manual Its Now Digital, They Came Up With A New Software That Runs All This. | |
| Processing Of Juice Using Different Ingredient ,Sugar, Passion, Citric Acid ,Food Colours Flavour Preserved With Sodium | |
| Processing Tea Leaves | |
| Procurement process whereby they do both clearing & delivering services. | |
| Producing Same Product But Introducing New Method Of Producing It That Is Improving The System. | |
| Production Of Tissue Paper Within The Organization | |
| Purchase Of A Cash Machine | |
| Purchase of the new Software making their work more efficient. | |
| Put In A New Computerized System To Boost The Speed Of Cargo Clearance And Movement | |
| Refreshing Course | |
| Regard Welding Heavy Lifting | |
| Renovated a place that previously used to be a kitchen into a lodging and resturant | |
| Ribbed Building Wires Production | |
| Selling Of Timber | |
| Selling(services) | |
| Skilled Workers & Engineers Were Employed & New Machine Bought For Production | |
| Sms services which they currently use to communicate with their clients | |
| Spare Parts And Motorcycles | |
| Started An Online Studying Programme | |
| Streaming Processes For Iso Certification | |
| Taking Farmers The Test For Quality And Distribute And Take It To Milk Processors For Processing | |
| The Are Now Selling Tyre Which Are Tubeless And They Are In Good Quality Compared To The Normal Tyres They Use To Sell | |
| The Company Has Introduced Computing System Whereby All Purchases Are In The Computer But Before We Did It Manually. | |
| The Customers Opens Accredit Facility With Equity Bank, The Bank Pays The Company'S And The Customer Picks The Product While The Bank Gets Interest. From The Customer | |
| The Innovation Intends To Introduce Fair Competition To Leading Construction Companies | |
| The Introduction Of Voice Over Internet Protocol (Voip) Which Made Business More Productive. | |
| The Land Cruiser Is Totally Different In Terms Of Carriage, Comfortability And Is A Bit Cheaper | |
| The Main Innovative Process Is The Acquisition Of The Computerized Extrusion Process. Which Produces More And Better Quality Pipes | |
| The Manufacture Of Track Suits And Selling Them. | |
| The Method Milk Collection Is Done Electronically | |
| The New Process Uses Less Energy And Is More Efficient | |
| The Packaging Changed | |
| The Research Was Conducted & Tested About The New Bleach Which Is Used In All Types Of Garment During Manufacturing. | |
| The Technical Team Goes Round The Country Explaining To Our Customers More About The Chemicals That We Use Unlike Before When We Did This Only In Nairobi | |
| The Use Of Gigs That You Don'T Have To Be Measure The Material Again And Again You Only Do It Once | |
| The berbeque which is mainly roasted for evening specialities | |
| The company applied management system by sacking & employing new proffessional employees therefore improving their production. Also came up with new machine. | |
| The company came up with new machines to improve quality of production. | |
| The company integrated with their sister company & came up with a primary distribution point. | |
| The company purchased new machines to improve quality & speed. | |
| The main innovative process was the mean of transporting from our office to point of collection now we use a vehicle or a tricycle. This safe and faster. | |
| Their was an introduction of guest questionaire feedback process. | |
| They Bought A Computer For Data Which Is Easier Than Recording And Using Files For Storage | |
| They Developed Information Technology Based Management Control System Which Encompasses Purchase Food Production Control, Revenue Management Control And Payroll System. | |
| They Have People Who Supply Them With Waste Plastics Then They Do Recycling To Make Good To Use Plastic Products | |
| They Hired Contractors From India & All Was Well | |
| They Imported Raw Materials And They Manufacture The Products Themselves | |
| They Increased Computers Memories From Pentium Three To Four So Communication And Service Delivery Was Made Easier I.E. E-Mailing To The Clients. | |
| They Introduced Delivery Services For The Customers Buying Books In Bulky. | |
| They Introduced Delivery Services To Their Customers Which Was Not There Before. | |
| They Requested The Latest Faw Tracks & Saloon Car In The Show Rooms To Meet The Customers Demand. | |
| They Use To Manufacture It In Open Currently They Are Using Vacuum Hence Reducing Their Employees | |
| They are giving out different book marks to their customers and they have paper bags branded with their logo and thats what they are using when serving the customers. | |
| They buy goat sychronize them & later give them Artificial insemination. | |
| They introduced Sales team who approaches their distributors & wholesalers regularly inorder to understand the ground sales which was not done before. | |
| They introduced delivery services to their clients using their own vehicles eg Transformers | |
| They sold batteries and gave out the battery acids for free which improved the business in terms of sales. | |
| Through Importation From European Union Countries Like Sweden. | |
| To Configure How They Could Have More Clients On The Same Size Piece Of Land | |
| To downsize the gauge used to manufacture metal crowns. | |
| Training In Maintenance And Computerization Of The Whole Companies Operations From Partial Manual | |
| Unga Farm Employed New Technicians To Operate The New Machine In Production Department. | |
| Use Of Improved Machine To Prepare The Maryland Chicken. | |
| Use Of Wasted Materials To Make Production E.G. Weeding Cards | |
| Used To Purchased Lubricants Manually But Now Purchase Is Done Online Using E-Lubes. It Is Reliable And Saves Time. | |
| Uses Different Machine Then New Engineers Come Up With A Product. | |
| We Bought Laptops, For Work Efficiency, Today We Do Online Marketing | |
| We Bought Machines To Enhance Wood Work And Also Machines For Making Cabros Or Pavers | |
| We Buy Chemicals To Produce The Filters | |
| We Decided To Purchase Computers And Laptops And Also Hired Experienced Skilled Workers | |
| We Deliver Goods To Our Customer For Local Market | |
| We Employed More Sales People And Also Bought New Vehicles To Deriver Our Product To Different Part Of Country. | |
| We Have Increased The Volume Of Our Purchase And Sale | |
| We Heavily Invested In The Provision Of Hi-Tech Transportation Of Cars. Its A Unique New Generation Car Carrier That Ensures Safety And Protection Of The Cars On Board. | |
| We Introduced A Full Operating Stationery Unlike Before When We Were Only Selling Text Books For Both Primary & Secondary Schools | |
| We Introduced A Roller Machine Which Can Be Used By Road Constructors It Is Being Pushed And Pulled Hence Very Easy To Operate | |
| We Moved From Tally To Sage Pastel | |
| We Started A Scrap Metal Collection Which We In-Turn Take To Steel Manufacturing Factories In Order For Us To Have Fine Quality Steel Metals For The Manufacturing Of The Trailers | |
| We Used To Keep Book Recode Now We Do On Computer After Creating A Software That Can Link All Department | |
| We have introduced an option to pay through mobile money instead of cash by tranfering cash to our specific mobile number | |
| We identified our clients & started delivering services to them. | |
| We introduced electronic payment for items. This enables our customers to pay using their debit cards of certain banks in kenya, this means they need not carry cash. They can just swipe their debit cards n pay for items. | |
| We now deliver sea foods to most of the hotels | |
| We opened up another branch at Chekmula building along jommo kenyatta highway | |
| We started operating in shifts so as to meet the demands of our customers,we also extended our operation time ,we nowdays operates more than 12hours last year,we opened our 3rd branch just within kisumu | |
| We started to produce an organic manure which we do sell at a reduced price | |
| While purchasing members are allowed to pay their bills by swiping their debit n credit cards. Paying electronically without using cash. | |
| bore hole drilling and equeping which uses solar energe to pump water | |
| buying of more land for container storage | |
| colour separation | |
| combined the financial and inventory management systems | |
| computerizing all the accounting systems and purchase systems | |
| did an overhaul of the whole procurement system and installed a computerized system | |
| grinding,mixing,packaging use of heat and compression to produce final product to feed pellets | |
| home deliveries and eat outs | |
| initialy we used manual but now we use machine while making our products | |
| introduced a point of sale system to do away with paperwork | |
| introduced use of quick books | |
| introducing the mixing machine,offering credit and advertising | |
| introduction of two new machines to improve on the production process. | |
| introduction of new machinery for accounts and inventory | |
| introduction of new machines which are quicker to prepare the plastics. | |
| introduction of plant line which easens production of more bikes easily | |
| it is mills oil and lubricates manufactured in uk imported and distributed by the company | |
| out sourcing.Services are deli ered to customers | |
| process of manufacturing peel and seal envelop using pressure sensitive adhesive and paper liner | |
| so as to maintain the required grades and clean coffed were have aquired fare trade certification so that the coffee consumer can get to know what goes on with the coffee before it reaches him/her eg at the factory we have clean water at the a | |
| started a cleaning service because they are in detergent manufacturing business | |
| the only innovative supporting process they have introduced is on computing that is one computer at the head office. | |
| the process of tinting windows is now fully automated | |
| they bouht a new paint mixture machine which was modernised to replace the old one | |
| they have introduced new machines that are faster and more efficient | |
| use of computers in accounting saved time and improved efficiency | |
| we acquired an IT system a network connecting health management systems(HMS) | |
| we have changed our inventory to have them digitalised and all the book keeping | |
| we have gone computerised we dont use manual |
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