Fixed Gear Bike = Fixie…Satisfyingly Built

A Fixed-gear bike named as Fixie is a bicycle that not uses free wheel. You cannot coast whereas the pedals are always in motion when the bike is moving.

Fixed gear bike original track cycle is in a Velodrome, but Fixie now is now used on the road. This trend originally is innovated by messengers or Postman in United State. The concept is simplicity and life-style. It is now becoming a new trend in Indonesia especially in Jakarta where now I live in, the appearance is more attractive designed in colorful frame and wheels.

I just need 3 days building a Fixie by letting the vendor build it up that costs me not more IDR 100,000. Most of parts used were shopped in Bu De Kemanggisan Fixie Specialist Shop located at West of Jakarta (near BINUS University):

1. Frame + Fork Solid Black - Taiwanese

2. Rims – Fixie 52 Cm, white colored

3. Hub – United, Maroon colored

4. Spokes - Stainless

5. Tyre Tube

6. Tyre – CST COMP Caldera

7. Crank - Viva

8. Pedal - Viva

9. Chain Ring

10. Chain

11. BB (Bottom bracket)

12. Seat post

13. Seat clamp

14. Saddle – Velo Plush

15. Headset

16. Stem - Zoom

17. Handle Bar – Missile

18. Grip

19. Toe clips

I’d like to thank Keke (my Bro in law) for listing down the parts and Bu De for your discounted prices.

I was BMX (Raleigh Burner) free-styler in Elementary School and Mountain Biker (Federal) in the 1^st year in College, those are old…..Riding Fixie is now a kind of pleasure.

Black Street Crawler is now ready to bring me along “flattie” and “smoothie” road to the Car Free Day riding event….Helmet, special biker cloth and cycle pants are no longer used along Fixie cloths…I’d rather to wear dark Blue Jeans, Casual jacket with Hood, Faked Oakley Sun Glasses and……sling Bag (the most Fixie Biker identity) of course……

CommunicAsia 2009: Asia Takes Turn

Some colleagues attended the exhibition said this year is not as merrier as previous year. The Biggest principles were rather to show their existence only compared their presentation in previous years.

I couldn’t reply my colleagues’ opinion much more since I had stopped attending the CommunicAsia since I decided to move out from Siemens Indonesia at 2004.

I really missed the air, meeting others who wear the same ICT shoes, discussion for new products, questioning known products with different point a view and so on.

I gave a B(+) for the whole event because everybody seems cutting their budget down for Financial Crisis starting at end of last year (2008). I didn’t see Indonesian biggest Carrier on the show, they appointed medium companies to take part but they didn’t successfully show their extraordinary products and solutions.

Some vendors from China, Korea and Eastern European countries attracted me for the Radio Communication products but they still couldn’t express me for reliability of its performance. They only shared their success story from their home country rather than worldwide experiences, fanaticism could give subjective approach while I look for the best product for solution.

I saw Indian principals showed their excellent product solution for mostly power system (Battery backup system and UPS), this absolutely took into account in my “two” thumbs up……Hmmm I was thinking Miss Aishwarya Rai to present those products, I would have been in the first row for asking her assistance for product knowledge (sigh).

What a shame, I couldn’t make complete registration for Product applications for my Blackberry Bold at Blackberry Booth because I was in the rush for Sentosa Island tour with my colleagues from DetikCom. Just for your information, I took DetikCom CommunicAsia tour for attending this event by thinking of its simplicity and of course efficiency package Hahaha…

Back to Blackberry talks, I questioned a guy on the booth that we still don’t have Blackberry shops in Indonesia for new applications with no answer. I read in the newspaper that Blackberry has a plan to open a store to compete iPhone existence in Indonesia but until now I haven’t seen any follow ups.
This year I just decided to change my mind from Windows Mobile’s freak to Blackberry’s freak. I surrendered from its marketing package for flat fee Blackberry Internet Service and its robust Push email and other messenger features.

Finally, this event surely could satisfy my hunger of new ICT technologies especially Telco which I supposed to work to.

Till we meet again at CommunicAsia 2010……Insya Allah.

New President and GM for Kangean Energy Indonesia, Ltd

This note is for personal used only. It can’t be used as reference for the company’s statement externally.

Almost 2 years after Mitsubishi and JAPEX acquiring for 50% Production Sharing Contractor’s (PSC) shares for Kangean Block in Indonesia, Kangean Energy Indonesia Ltd (KEI) has committed for continuing the upstream Oil & Gas business in Indonesia.

Significant progress in terms of technical project achievement has been shown in positive way.
Not limited to drilling campaign for Sepanjang Island Marginal Project for Sepanjang Development (SED) 3 and 4 and Pagerungan Utara Offshore (PUO) 1, 2 and 3 but also Marine 3D Seismic West Kangean at Arjasa are also done along the year of 2008.

Shareholders might have different views in this achievement, though Government pushes PSCs for 1.5 Mio Barrels per day production. Technically it’s hard for KEI to catch up the target for production, but KEI has shown great commitment for its marginal project for starting up the optimistic production. Oil price in slump area stumbled KEI to boost its production for PUO.

Until the period of the critical moment for KEI to produce its oil in marginal field, KEI’s shareholders decided to promote its new President & GM from Mr. Keisuke Inoue to Mr. Junichi Matsumoto.

So long Pak Inoue and Welcome aboard Pak Matsumoto, we really expect the 3 C (Challenge, Change and Commitment) will come true quite soon.

IT Head Roles Changed

Many changes in IT Head role as top IT executive to tremendously fast pace of technology innovation. Now we need to understand the entire business processes of the enterprise. Keep in tuning the industry and maintaining the understanding of the whole business process and operations are essential.

Over past few years, the focus of IT has shifted more and more to the end user. It seems IT vision is absorbed to all departments we serve as electronic extensions, rather than just tools they use.

IT organization will not statically be stayed as it is but it is going to be spread among organization within enterprise.

Doing the internal project in enterprise is not as just the goal perspective, includes the change management among our expanded areas of responsibility. One of our goals of standardizing technology is to make it possible for employees to more easily change roles or move across departments within the company and not have to learn an entirely new set of IT system when we do move.

Experienced in implementing Oracle Business Suites Release 12.04 for Finance, Inventory and Purchase modules in Oil & Gas Company, we have to setup change management proposal to the board of director to get it approved. Tremendous changes shall be done compared to the old tailor made Business Applications developed by Oracle development tools, for approval security matrix definition. Paperless approval through e-Workflow streamlines the business process for complicated approval flows. Some issues came up by having discussion in the top level management for legacy data and auditor purposes. Though, it speeds up the process and equipped with early mechanism for approval business flows.

Maximo vs Oracle inventory

Our company Kangean Energy Indonesia Ltd (KEI) runs tailor made ERP for Material Management and Inventory System (MMIS) for procurement and inventory business applications by using Oracle iAS (internet Application Service) tools. It was adopted from our previous sister company for the reason of the tight time schedule for implementation. Acquiring BP Kangean doesn't mean all business application software and licenses could be transfered automatically during transition period. Alas, we had to leave all Oracle applications back to BP.
Our MMIS is now out-of-date of company requirement to have material stock status change in MMIS in terms of return material from well. Complete option for stock status changes is not supported by current MMIS.
We require multiple transactions among warehouses in the future, this feature can not be done in MMIS since in the future we will have more production sites for oil & gas (Sepanjang Island, TSB and West Kangean). We expect there will be warehouse transactions among the sites.
We are now comparing the Maximo with its inventory features and Oracle Inventory module application. Currently We run Maximo 4.1 and nearly upgrade with Maximo 6.2. On the other hand we also review Oracle Inventory application since we run iAS and Oracle database 9i. From what We have heard people on the floor, engineers maintenance people would find Maximo more aligned with processes and see as it is not Oracle as much since Oracle's strengths were in other areas (Finance, procurement). Our consideration on Oracle application is to have possibilities to have modules of business applications in package which links with each other. Besides interface between Maximo and Oracle business application is tested and matured.
Seems like we will run Maximo as Work order & asset management system and to consider Oracle application as our inventory system.

Cheers,

Dikman

E-Business Strategy Session 7 - Metrics

Scope of Metrics
In this scope Metrics provide framework system to periodically assess the health of an online business. Metrics are usually specialized by the subject area, in which case they are valid only within a certain domain and cannot be directly benchmarked or interpreted outside it.
The metrics framework is composed of five categories of metrics: market opportunity, business model, marketing and branding, implementation, and customer. These measurements or metrics can be used to track trends, productivity, resources and much more. Typically, the metrics tracked are key performance indicators.
Metrics are important in online business, the suggestion the process for approaching the e-business health and performance:

Performance Benchmarking
The goal is to improve financial and operating performance on e-Business Company. The way how to gain the result is to measure client performance and compare to that of peers and determine competitive industry position for client. The process of Performance benchmarking can be done by revealing and quantifying areas of strength and weakness through comparison of Key Performance Indicators. It is expected that the respective e-Business company can develop strategies that improve areas of sub-par performance while continuing to build upon areas of strength.

Balance Score card
Implementing a Balanced Scorecard is a corporate life-changing event. It should not be viewed as a project initiative, but rather as a way of doing business. Done correctly, the Balanced Scorecard provides a template for business leaders to align day-to-day tasks with overall corporate objectives. It creates direct measurable links between strategies and performance for multiple constituencies in e-business company by evaluating performance from four perspectives: financial, customer, business processes and learning. To develop metrics is critical to success for each perspective and compare to performance standard on a Scorecard. Expected result is the alignment of corporate strategies and accountability for achieving goals in the four perspectives.

Online Surveys
Most research on changes in category performance focuses on historical product movement. Our customized online surveys focus on both historical and projected growth trends, in ways that lead to solid marketing and Profit Improvement growth strategies. Our Goal: Develop market insight, through analysis of collected data that will drive improvements in category marketing strategies, and increase profit potential for retailers and suppliers.
Our Approach: Conduct online surveys that are easy for participants and that will collect sufficient relevant data for insightful analysis.
Our Process: Analyze data with cross-tabulated responses that will reveal marketing strengths and weaknesses of the category and of suppliers’ marketing programs.
Results: Develop management report that presents key findings for tall topics surveyed; report is presented to retail participants and suppliers in roundtable format and/or electronically.

Business Planning
Most companies don’t plan to fail especially e-business company, but often do fail to plan. Over 90% of new business ventures fail within five years, often as a result of inadequate planning for resource and operational needs.
The value of going through the planning process is often as valuable to clients as the plan itself, as it stimulates constructive discussion among the management team. The final product of effective business planning is a plan that is challenging and achievable.
Our Goal: Create optimum success opportunities for clients through structured business planning.
Our Approach: Identify goals and the resources available to achieve them.
Our Process: Develop success measures and systematic approaches for achieving goals.
Results: A written business plan that achieves current goals and positions client firm to achieve future goals.

E-Business Strategy Session 8 - Media Transformation

New Opportunity Media Transformation
There is a fundamental transformation of the media industry that is creating a disruption to traditional media companies and well as creating significant opportunities. A Company should position Know More Media to capitalize on these opportunities.

Decline of Traditional Media Publishing
The majority of traditional media are reporting declines in almost all key growth and profitability metrics. The decline in traditional publishing is in part because of an explosion in the supply of media choices relative to the demand. As I earlier pointed out, supply has increased because the cost to produce and distribute content has dropped dramatically because of the emergence of digital and online content.

Media Convergence
Internet Protocol (IP) is the gateway for media convergence. This standard based protocol speaks widely. According to the theory of media convergence, very soon, there will be no more need for having a television and a computer separate from each other, since both would be able to do the job of the other, ultimately making both extinct and creating a new medium from the synthesis.
In the communication perspective, media convergence aims to bring together all forms of media into one single device. The migration of the various analog media channels and businesses to a common digital platform, with the Internet as its primary driver results in low cost media infrastructure.
Media convergence really refers to the merging of capabilities of each individual media channel. Technology is aiding the deletion of individual devices, but this is not what is referred in this case. Media convergence is the ability for an increasingly diverse range of content to be delivered through a range of media channels (digital convergence). Unlike the traditional delivery of TV programs through TV, we can now receive TV programs on both a TV but also a mobile phone, a computer, an Ipod etc. Convergence is not the reduction of devices but the expansion of channels to content combinations.