Pikom to better serve its members
- New chairman pursuits to make that his legacy
- Aims to offer sharper market updates
THE first element Cheah Kok Hoong (percent) did while he turned into elected Pikom chairman ultimate November became to induce his fellow council members to not ask what individuals ought to for the country wide ICT affiliation, “but what Pikom can do for them,” he remembers.
The purpose become for Pikom to pay attention extra to its members and to be greater inclusive.
He then observed that up with the aid of asking his council participants, in January this yr, to reveal their Pikom-associated claims to him. At the identical assembly, he additionally declared that his personal claims might be tested through the Oversight Committee of Pikom.
Some council individuals laughed. Others had been shocked. To Cheah, who describes himself as “a simple guy who leads by means of instance,” all these steps are designed to make sure that the Pikom council – with its 18 executive committee (exco) members – in reality serve their members and uphold a higher degree of duty in enjoyable their respective duties.
His goal is easy. “I need to instil a sense of ownership, of urgency. If this isn't always there, the association becomes susceptible,” he tells Digital News Asia (DNA) in an extraordinary interview.
Having been in the Pikom committee for a number of years, which include as deputy chairman from 2012-2013, Cheah has had a the front row seat to how the committee performs and whilst you may no longer get him going on the file to mention whatever terrible approximately Pikom’s leadership, he without a doubt feels extra may be achieved to decorate its stature because the National ICT Association of Malaysia.
To this end, one of the movements he goes to take is to disallow any committee member from competing for industry awards. “We will no longer be doing justice if we permit this,” he says.
On the duty level, he has brought a strategic planning document to be able to lists down all the deliverables the diverse Pikom council members are tasked with. The council will then evaluate this each month.
“The aim is to not just communicate … permit’s execute,” he says, adding that “in the past, there were too many thoughts most effective.”
While the chairman function is capped at -yr tenures, any modern-day chairman still desires to offer himself or herself for re-election, and Cheah makes the factor that if contributors aren't satisfied with any chairman, they can vote a person else in.
And whilst he is just a few months into his position, he already talks approximately leaving a legacy of doing what is right for the industry. “I need people to recollect me as doing justice to contributors,” he says.
With Pikom exco individuals, and its 13 advisers, specially including a hit marketers – “They are my Big Brothers,” he says – sturdy discussions over troubles are not unusual. But Cheah wants to make certain any disagreements do no longer reason fissures within the affiliation.
“If you do it with an open heart, then we can no longer have any form of battle,” he says.
Meanwhile, in one large exchange to Pikom, with a purpose to be extra inclusive, is that it'll exchange its constitution to encompass individual contributors. Currently all membership is enterprise based totally.
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