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AFO, Area Farmers Organization, Armed force cooperative stores, COVID-19, Effectual recovery rate, Flooding wreckage, GLC, Government agencies, Health Ministry budget, KPI tracking, Lead indicators, Management competencies, Micro enterprises, Ministry advisors, SME closures, SpeedMart 99, TAP, Transformation Alert Program
Kudus to registration of citizens at token fee or free of cost, and also not charged for lab and medicine after medical consultation. A government-run hospital having a specialist wing provide even more services like surgery and physiotherapy at no cost to citizens. Basic clinical examination and follow-up treatment of sports orthopaedic-injuries cost more than RM2000.
A second case illustration: The Asian Development Bank on 26 September 2017 mentioned Malaysia’s economic outlook to be one of the most robust because global trade recovery helped boost its exports. Two days later, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib announced one-off grants of RM30,000 for every Area Farmers Organization (AFO) and Area Fisherman’s Organization.
In late 2010 after approaching two AFOs to supply organic fertilizers, it was found their subsidized price tags to be credited to farmers’ accounts far exceeded market commercial rates. There were no complaints from the participants of AFO programs because they received fertilizers and pesticides free of costs. It would be fortunate if they received even 50% of what the grants could purchase on their behalf.
You need to understand the wastage due to leakages in fund utilization and programs implementation inefficiency start from building infrastructures and distribution of land lots. The price tag of the bags of fertilizer given to participating farmers in AFO programs are inflated. Their supply chain management cannot match an independent fertilizer supplier delivery price.
In the manufacturing and service sector as well as in farming, upgrading management competencies to track performance and react quickly to lead indicators will improve overall effectiveness of the system, for instance ensuring crop rotation in replanting. To stay on top of things is reacting to negative performance indicators and initiating improvement in the most worthwhile opportunities.
In the first case illustration, registration of patients enables the hospitals to claim fees to be paid by the Ministry of Health. Thus the more medicine given out the greater amount the Health Ministry has to churn out. Tax payers wonder if surgery performed generate a big portion of total claims of a hospital and a doctor’s recommendations go to KPI tracking and annual bonus payment. Will the Health Ministry reduce its annual budget with strict SOPs claims entitlements?
In the second case illustration, the AFO hierarchy needed the price margins to stay afloat. What is important is that the AFO top management track the number of participants who failed and dropped off. Why they could not be as successful as Chinese private farmers who received no fertilizer subsidies and free farm lots?
Another case scenario is why a GLC retail chain cannot be as successful as SpeedMart 99 which can even match hypermarket retail prices for some items? The armed forces cooperative stores ought to add better value for members patronizing them.
In the case of Covid-19 and flooding wreckage a wrong indicator such as new cases of coronavirus led to measures to reduce travel, social visitations and events, to name some which affect low wage earners due to SMEs and micro-enterprises closures. The Effectual Recovery Rate of say 98.8% ought to be the lead indicator which has not significantly changed since 11.9.21. The real or effectual recovery rate for 11.9.21 was 98.8%, comprising of Total recoveries (1,700,733) divided by 1,721,149 (total cases of 1,960,500 less active cases of 239,351). Active cases do not lead to deaths if the infected are properly treated.
It’s time for a full blown transformation alert program (TAP).
In a preceding posting (before the revised TAP post) “Consultant with Proudfoot grounding, Adam Rasheed Mowe recommends a primary indicator “Effectual Recovery Rate” to solidify strategies and measures to upend Covid-19 devastation garnered more than 480 views.
What good are sleepy-headed PM advisors and KPI experts being silent? Instead account for transparency and close loop on alternative strategic measures to upend flooding and Covid-19 turmoil. Tax payers then can be more contented that welfare and well-being of the people are sincere concerns of politicians. Public interest is not deflected.
Relief handouts are never enough and do not reach everybody. National recovery plans must be show results. Tax payers wonder if seepage and corruption account more than what is reached to those in need. There must be no corruption in the land.
Wake up sleepy heads. Support the leadership better by probing all comments and galvanize ideas and suggestions of merit pertaining to KPI tracking and implementation follow-up. Effectual outcomes must be in place to strategic measures and there is no leakage of budgeted resources.