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Friday 28 August 2009

Idris Jala... What now National KPIs?

By Jeff Ooi,

It's a mouthful of alphabet soup. But tell me, what's the Key Performance Indicator for all these?

  • Malaysia Airlines (MAS) is to lose its CEO and managing director Idris Jala as he has been appointed a Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department. Academically, he will be sworn-in as Senator later.
  • Idris will be a minister without a portfolio in the PM’s Department.
  • Idris will complement, support and report to Dr Koh Tsu Koon, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department in charge of National Unity and Performance Management.

Now, will that invalidate what backdoor Minister Dr Koh Tsu Koon was slated for, as the original KPI minister? Another round of alphabet soup:

  • Tsu Koon will be the chairman of the board of Pemandu (Performance Management and Delivery Unit), which includes the Chief Secretary to the Government and other senior officers. Pemandu is the organisation that oversees the implementation of the Key Performance Index initiatives.
  • Tsu Koon will continue with his task of formulating and executing the overall policy and strategy on performance management and organisational transformation with special focus on National Key Results Area (N-KRA).

So, what will Tsu Koon and Idris be doing -- one and together, alphabet soup or otherwise?

  • Idris will report to Tsu Koon on matters relating to KPIs and directly to the Prime Minister on other duties assigned to him as a minister.
  • Idris will also assume the deputy chairmanship of the Pemandu Board, to be responsible for specific N-KRAs and National KPIs (N-KPIs) and advise on Ministerial-KRAs (M-KRAs) and M-KPIs.
  • Idris will be the CEO of Pemandu.

In another words, Idris is the driver at Pemandu.

If BN bureaucracy sets in, and it's sure to set in with or without Najib, it's going to be KPIs driven by Management by Bureaucratic Lethargy.

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