Jamaican Engineering in Business and the Costumer's Experience

Jamaica may not be a country you think about when you say engineering but it has its fair share of engineering feats. Jamaica boasts being the first Caribbean country to have electricity and running water. I can a bit further by saying that Jamaica even had light and water before United Sates of America. St. Elizabeth was the first parish in Jamaica to get Electricity, in 1893. St. Elizabeth, my parents' home parish, even had telephones 10 years after it was invented by Alexander G. Bell. Implementation of these mentioned infrastructure was to satisfy a need and solve a problem people faced, hence an engineer or group of engineers solved a problem. The engineers in 17th -19th century Jamaica, were predominantly English. The colonizers of Jamaica managed the Jamaican resource to their benefit but left a legacy of engineering development for Jamaica and Jamaicans to learn from. In my opinion the greatest engineering legacy in Jamaica was the railroading network the English established. A legacy it is indeed. So much that it seems to be a legend to most of those in my age group. Many don't even know that Jamaica had a railroading network opened to transport before U.S.A, dating from 1845.

Engineering in Jamaica has never gotten the highlight it truly deserved. For example, if a road is being built here, its not advertised via 'word o' mouth' as an engineering construction. Its just, 'dem a build a road'. The intricacies in some of our civil works are rarely eye catching due to the numerous shabby work done by cheap and greedy so called engineers. The Portmore leg of the Toll Road, for example, I assume many Portmore residence have forgotten the special construction this road got. When the road material was being laid they saw foam being placed in the ground, may be the first many was seeing this being done. And so the reason eluded them. This was because the area by the cause way is a wet land, (was a  swamp- now dumped up land). Heavy compaction of aggregate or regular construction material would prevent the regular flow of water in and out the coast. So after a short while all that expensive work would need to be repeated or wasted. Because after the land gets waterlogged the water would have to find some way out. The nice, pretty road would deteriorate fast.

With this article, I want to present what engineering looks like in Jamaica today with the examples of three well-known Jamaican companies involved in engineering. These companies manage a resource vital to Jamaicans and have been around for more than a decade. I want to focus on the efficacy of their respective managers in improving the organization. The companies will be assessed on their technological improvement, improvement in customer service and customers' perception of the company. Improvement in the companies technology and infrastructure is directly link to engineering skills but the effectiveness of its managers can only be measured by how beneficial these advances are to the customers.

So the three companies are:

1. Jamaica Public Service (JPS)
2. Lime/ Flow
3. National Water Commission

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Free Help for Smart IBO's and Network Marketers

For those interested in building any business online or who just want to make some extra cash while using the internet, there are some essential tools for your business. It is very likely that if you don't have these tools you are going to struggle in your business or worst, starve your clients and followers of the value you could be adding to them. Some of these tools have a cost and some due to the good will of others who have struggled in online businesses themselves, are FREE. With this post I want to share one of those free business changing tools.

It was a bit hard to find a good free auto responder, especially when you don't know what to look for at the beginning. First I was discouraged by only seeing the paid one's but I continued and soon I found some not so good ones. Then something I could work with. Had to watch a few videos on other network marketers' squeeze page to get to where I wanted to be, but it was worth it. In recent times of network marketing and affiliate marketing, 'squeeze pages' have become more available to its users. I don't think there is anyone using the internet who has never landed on a squeeze/ capture page/ landing page. Capture pages attract persons to your business and/ or opportunity and allows them to leave their contact with you if they are interested. I say that, to say that the tools you need for your business are for the purposes of attracting persons to you then allowing you to give them value effectively.

The tools for your business are:

1. Email System (your best professional email)
2. Contact Management System
3. Website/ blog
4. Auto-responder System

I want to highlight Auto-responders. But before I do so I must say that a contact management system may have all the other tools in a well organized package that may even allow you with ways to monitor and track the efficiency of your maketing strategies. Hence you can select your most effective.

Auto Responders

Well auto-responders or email auto responder is a program that automatically answers emails sent to the computer using it. An auto responder is apart of email marketing. Today, some provide this service through a web account, so you do not need a software installed on your computer to take advantage of it. So the free one I am using as of the date of the post is listwire. The banner below says it all about listwire.


The introduction video on their web page will give more insight. But all in all this auto responder from listwire is worth its 'freeness'.  Feel free to follow the banner link above to view website.

Its a Nice Package 

List wire offers a bit more than the auto responder. I can track my lead's subscription and delivery success of messages. Its contact management has simple database features but easily managed user interface. Many more features available, but i'll leave you to discover them on your own for now.

If you are serious about your business but a bit strapped for cash in the early stages of your 'Biz', listwire is the way to go and grow.

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How to Change a Corrupt Government

Here in Jamaica we are back in election season-once again. I do not vote because I don't believe in 'giving away my rights and power to those who don't care about me.' Jamaica's successive governments and its leaders have achieved some good for the country but for the most part, in my opinion (facts unearthed might sway my decision) governments have failed the people's expectations time and time again. There has been some good work done in Education, Transportation, Construction and Mining and Agriculture. But Security and Justice is very hard to manage; it would seem. Unlike the minister of security, I see this crime problem Jamaica faces not as something that grossly needs divine intervention but an opportunity to prove to the divine that with His help we can solve the scourge of crime and violence.

GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CARD?

Solving Crime Pays but not as much as crime itself. Bribery is many persons get out of 'jail free card.' It's Not Really Free though. No one gets out jail free. A price is paid for every decision. Whether in time or money; whether in emotions or deferred favour; something is paid; a transaction occurs. Hence, corruption is bred at the end of a crime cycle. By the crime cycle, I mean how an activity seen as breaking the law is started and finished. This cycle is started most times by a selfish greed but also by a genuine want or need. Then the crime cycle is ended by the reward or punishment of the activity. Is corruption providing that opportunity to reward criminals? Is corruption preventing the punishment of criminals?


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