Congratulations Mr. Demola Aladekomo – The New Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) President

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August 3, 2011

Mr. Demola Aladekomo, Managing Director of Chams Plc Elected NCS President at the just concluded Annual General Meeting (AGM) held on Friday, July 29, 2011 at International Conference Centre, Abuja.

The Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) is the umbrella organization of all Information Technology Professionals, Interest Groups and Stakeholders in Nigeria. Formed in 1978 as Computer Association of Nigeria (COAN) and Transformed into NCS in 2002 as a result of harmonization with other stakeholder and interest groups. NCS is the national platform for the advancement of Information Technology Science and Practice in Nigeria

In a keenly contested election, Mr. Demola Aladekomo defeated Dr. David Adewumi, Immediate Past 1^st Vice President and Dr. Peter Olayiwola to emerge the President. He is to lead the Society for the next two years.

In another development, Mr. Same Juwe defeated Mr. Emmanuel Eseyin of Open University to emerge the 1^st Vice President.

Other Elected Officers:

2^nd Vice President: Dr. (Mrs.) Adeola Ilechukwu

Chairman, Conferences Committee: Professor Adesola Aderounmu

Chairman, Credentials Committee: Mr. Abimbola Olayinka

Chairman, Education and Manpower Development Committee: Dr. Vincent Ele Asor

Chairman, Ethics and Disciplinary Committee: Mrs. Ola Owolabi

Chairman, Publications, Standards and Research Committee: Dr. Adesina Simon Sodiya

Chairman, Publicity, Events and Trade Services Committee: Mr. Jide Awe

Ex-Officio (2 Candidates):

Prince Medinus

Mr. Moses Braimah

Representatives to CPN Council (Six Candidates):

Dr. Virginia Ejiofor

Mr. Akin Fapohunda

Dr. Sylvanus O. Anigbogu

Mr. Omosola Raphael A.

Mr. Kole Jagun: Elected

Mr. Adeoye Aderogba

Photo credit/NCS website

L-R: Mr. Demola Aladekomo, NCS Elected President and his Predecessor , Prof. Charles Uwadia

Less Than 7% Of Nigerian Women Are In Public Traded Company Boards

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Tekedia Intelligence mined data obtained from the Nigeria Security and Exchange Commission, Corporate Annual reports and interviews and noted that Nigerian women rarely make it to the top position in their fields or industries. We observed that less than 7% of the members of corporate boards in the public companies in Nigeria are women. This follows closely to the number of women that are running top companies in the nation. We also looked at data obtained from the Nigerian University Commission and noticed that most of the public universities are managed by men as Vice Chancellors.

This comes at a time when the world is witnessing women stars. The boss of Xerox, Ursula Burns, is not just a woman but a black lady. Pepsi has Indira Nooyi. Yahoo! is lead by Carol Bartz while Facebook for all of the technical wizardry of Mark Zuckerberg, the engine of that company is Sheryl Sandberg. The soup company, Campell will soon have a woman running it. We must acknowledge the services of Meg Whitney of eBay and of course Carly Fiorina of HP (!).

Of course the global number of women in key positions remains small. In the US Fortune 500, only 15 companies are managed by women. The German DAX has zero woman as boss. The France CAC 40 is also zero. The British FTSE-100 has five female bosses.

Despite the natural capacities of women to understand markets and their directions, companies continue to leave them out of the top job. Women shop more and they are naturally positioned to help create products which they by. Yet, men continue to run this show, disproportionately. Yes, men are more aggressive and risk takers even at work to try new ideas and take big projects even when the failure outcomes could be dangerous.

Nigeria is unfortunately low with women leaders in the public schools. Tekedia Intelligence research could not understand this lopsided preference of women despite stellar performance by Nigerian women in the past and present times. We also recall how the Aba women saved Aba in 1930 and how people like Ngozi Okongo-Iweala and Dora Akunyili have performed.

Though we do not advocate the solution of mandatory requirement of women in the Nigerian boards as Norway did in 2003 which required at least 40% women in public company boards. Today,only about 32% are women despite the mandate of implementing that in 2008. Norway has more women percentage in boards than any nation. Recent data shows that most of the companies promoted unqualified women to meet quotas and ended up hurting their performance. Unless the woman is qualified, do not promote. Yet, there must be a way out.

Though it is really difficult to ascertain why that disparity exists. Except in technical programs, as many women and men go to schools and obtain degrees. That they take time to raise kids and are not naturally aggressive to seek for promotions do not hide the fact that Nigerian women need help in the corporate boards. We need to do better.

Data sources: Businessweek, OECD, Mckinsey, SEC (Nigeria), First Global Select

Play The Management And Leadership Wheel Used By Executive Coaches

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PDF version is here: Management Wheel

Do this exercise and access your management/leadership development. It was given to me by my Executive Coach, courtesy of TED

Directions: Score (0 to 10) your satisfaction with your ability to:

Planning and Budgeting: establishing detailed steps and timetables for achieving

results and then allocating the resources necessary to make it happen.

Establishing Direction: developing a vision of the future, often the distant future,

and strategies for producing the changes needed to achieve that vision.

Organizing and Staffing: establishing a structure for accomplishing plan requirements, staffing that structure with people, delegating authority for carrying out the plan, providing policies and procedures to guide people, and creating methods or systems to monitor implementation.
Aligning People: communicating the direction by words and deeds to all those whose cooperation may be needed so as to create a team that understands the vision and strategies and accepts their validity.
Controlling and Problem Solving: monitoring results in detail, identifying deviation from the plan, and then organizing to solve these problems.
Motivating and Inspiring: energizing people to overcome major political, bureaucratic, and resource barriers to change by satisfying basic, but often unfulfilled, human needs.
Promoting Stability and Order: creating the potential of consistently producing key results.
Promoting Change: creating the potential of producing useful change (such as desired new products or processes)

Source: From questionnaire from my executive coach, but figure from this site

Global Phone Market Grew By 11.3% Year Over Year In 2Q2011

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Across the globe, mobile devices are being sold like hot cakes. The market is expanding and phones are driving some new industries. From North America to Asia, vendors are shipping millions of units. It simply means that the market is healthy and will continue like that for years.

A new report has that the global mobile phone market grew 11.3% year over year in 2Q11. The report, from IDC noted that vendors shipped about 365.4 million units in 2Q11 compared to 328.4 million units 2Q10. Yet, the feature phone market shrank 4% in 2Q11 when compared to 2Q10.

“The shrinking feature phone market is having the greatest impact on some of the world’s largest suppliers of mobile phones,” said Kevin Restivo,an IDC analyst. “Stalwarts such as Nokia are losing share in the feature phone category to low-cost suppliers such as Micromax, TCL-Alcatel, and Huawei.”

“For the overall market to grow by double digits year over year, despite the decline in feature phones, is testament to the strength of the global smartphone market,” noted Ramon Llamas, senior research analyst with IDC’. “While this is not a new trend – smartphones have been the primary engine of growth for the last several quarters – it does mark something of a transition point, as demonstrated by the growing number and variety of smartphones featured in the vendors’ portfolios.”

The breakdown of the growth by vendor is provided below.

2Q11 Unit Shipments		2Q11 Market Share	2Q10 Unit Shipments	2Q10 Market Share	Year-Over-Year Change
Nokia	88.5	24.2%	111.1	33.8%	-20.3%
Samsung	70.2	19.2%	63.8	19.4%	10.0%
LG Electronics	24.8	6.8%	30.6	9.3%	-18.9%
Apple	20.3	5.6%	8.4	2.6%	141.8%
ZTE	16.6	4.5%	12.2	3.7%	36.0%
Others	145	39.7%	102.3	31.2%	41.7%
Total	365.4	100.0%	328.4	100.0%	11.3%

Source: IDC Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker, July 28, 2011

Note: Vendor shipments are branded shipments and exclude OEM sales for all vendors

Can Google Africa Help Eritrea? Notable For Rejecting Foreign Aids And Support

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As we congratulate South Sudan for its independence, we need to remember Eritrea. Eritrea fought for more than three decades to have independence from Ethiopia, in 1993. It got it and ever since its promise of liberty and independence has taken a new turn. Today, it is ravaged by famine. It is a reclusive nation and one of the most autocratic nations in Africa.

Tekedia Intelligence has noted that this nation of 5.3 million people is a gun powder that is exploding now. Recall that footballers that went to play in Tanzania ran away. Recall that many of the doctors have moved to neighboring African nations. Recall that even senior government officials absconded while on official duties in other countries. Of course, the government of President Isaias Afwerki retaliates by locking up their relatives and imprisoning them.

Eritrea continues to get billions from gold, copper and zinc mines from Canadian and Australian companies. Apart from those mines, this country does little with the world. It rejects all foreign aids and denies any insinuations that its people need help. Yes, Eritrea is one of the few if not the only major African nation that does not accept foreign aids. Do not interpret it as a good thing. Why? The man is not providing an alternative.

So, this brings the question: can Google Africa help this nation? Does anyone know if Google has a project there. Can it use technology to bring liberation to the people. Can Google save Eritrea by helping invest in its future? Of course, you will ask: what is Google? A company out to boost bottom lines. So Eritrea may not cut it. But we need certainty in this land.

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