[NYC-L] Kosova TELECOM : Design of New Logo and Slogan

[Dardan Blaku]

Visar,

I'd really hate to bust your bubble, but the time when things were done in 
the name of "solidarity for the homeland" has passed years ago. Without a 
secure return on investment, no one would take a chance to invest his/her time on this 
initiative. I am confident that is the reason why no one responded.

PTK is a monopoly, and as long as they remain a monopoly, there will be no 
mechanism that will be able to change their present way of operations. 
While I am personally plagued by mismanagement of utility companies in the 
region, right now it is virtually impossible to rid them of the corrupt 
individuals. Between the socialist way of thinking and the absence of 
adequate laws, there is a multitude of factors that make the above 
impossible, but also, they make it impossible for the competition (which 
unfortunately is more educated and efficient) to offer services.

If we decide to collectively return to the homeland and decide to 
violently take over the utility companies and reorganize them from the 
ground up, we would be closer to the reality. Otherwise, we should stick 
with designing logos and slogans for them.

Now you can call this bitching, but this is the impression that I received 
from the year that I spent in Kosova, trying to "help". You can help if 
you have a relative in one of the ministries, and of course, you must 
belong in the political party that oversees that particular ministry. 
Resume is optional.

Since this is the New York City forum, these are my last two cents on this 
issue on this list. If anyone wants to discuss this issue further, I 
encourage them to do so on the Information Technology list at: 
http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/info-tech

Thanks,
Dardan

Visar Belegu <vbelegu at hotmail.com> wrote:
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Aboslutely.
Someone send out an email informing us that PTK is looking for a new logo 
and sloan that would best reflect their business or something like that. 
Following that another person send an email critizing PTK or Kosova 
TELECOM as a ripp-off company.
Before say more, let me be clear on one thing that being I know nothing 
about organizing a business structure such as telecommunication company. 
With that being said, it is very clear that the PTK, the major 
telecommunication company of Kosova is a very inefficiently operated 
corporation. Since the end of the war the company this company has been 
managed by persons whose intrests did not lie with what was best for the 
company (several were recently charged with all kinds of fraud). So the 
forcast for the future of this company is fairly bleek.
On the other hand, there seem to be a large number of Albanian students 
that have recieved business degrees in many foreign countries. Therefore, 
I thought it would be a good intellectual excercise if a few persons with 
decent knowlege of business would get together and study the structure of 
this corparation with the idea of designing a business paln that would 
turn this antiquated telecommunication giant into a modern profitable 
company. Such a business plan would inculde amongst others an evaluation 
of the current managerial structure and corporate accountability as well 
operational structure, cost and efficiancy. The this group would generate 
ideas as how to improve PTK or Kosova TELECOM at all levels of the 
corporation. The persons invovled would decide how indepth they want to 
get with the project but I would encourage them to be very serious because 
if they come up with good ideas and proposals I would like for the 
proposal to be seem by persons that could implement the suggested reforms.
My involvment with this group would be minimal, more like a cheerleader as 
I am trained as a scientist and have a very superficial interst in 
business. My reasons for proposing such a crazy thing is so that it will 
give a group of persons an intellectual outlet to all their frustration 
and hopefully it will entice people that bitch a lot to get up and DO 
SOMETHING.
So far no takers though! Kind of dissapointed about that but I am hoping 
that some soul outher will take this head-on.
Visar





can you please be more specific on what are you looking for and what is 
your proposal, because the description doesn't match with the "Subject" of 
your email.
Thanks
Beni

>From: "Visar Belegu" <vbelegu at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: "Albanians in New York City Discussion Forum (New York City, 
USA)" <nyc-l at alb-net.com>
>To: nyc-l at alb-net.com
>Subject: Re: [NYC-L] Kosova TELECOM : Design of New Logo and Slogan
>Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:39:53 -0600
>
> === NYC-L: New York City Discussion Forum ===
>
>Does anyone know people that have majored in the field of
>communication and/or business? It would be great if someone better
>educated on this matter could prepare a proposal about rebuilding
>the antiquated telecommunication company! I am almost ceratain that
>with the right proposal and proper lidership a few of us could
>develope a very proposal that will gain support of the Kosova's
>parlament as well as as the UN administrators there.
>
>Perhaps, it is an idealistic approach but I thing this is a great
>opportunity for anyone to get involved in fixing a very specific and
>important problem in Kosova instead of just bitching about things.
>If nothing else it will be a great exercise for someone who intends
>to run a business like this in the future.
>
>If anyone is intrested in working on something like this please
>contact me at this email:
>vbelegu at hotmail.com (ALL proposals will be accepted just please be
>at least half serious about it)
>
>Thanks,
>Visar
>
>
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