Day 29 & 30 - IBM office in Lagos & last day in Nigeria

Last Friday in Nigeria we left Abeokuta and headed to Lagos. We had a quick meeting at the IBM office in Lagos and met some of our colleagues that work there. We shared some of the recommendations we made to the Ogun State ministries.

 We had a great dinner at a Indian restaurant to celebrate Nilesh's birthday, and also everyone's last night together. More than a team, we become a family in one month together! What a great experience to take with me forever! Great job team :)

Day 28 - Community Service

Our community service day was at the Orphanage “Stella Obasanjo Motherless Home”, the name was in honor to the former first Lady of Nigeria. We helped cleaning and spent most of our time playing with the kids.

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Day 27 - Closing ceremony

All good things come to an end so on the last Wednesday in Nigeria we had our last presentation, the final executive summary of all our short term, medium term and long term recommendations to the government ministries. It was a great closing ceremony!

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Last week - Days 22, 23, 24, 25

We worked long hours on the weekend to be able to finalize the presentation to the Ogun State Water Corporation on Monday. On Monday we have the last presentation with the General Manager and the Assistants and Directors of the Ogun Water Corporation. It was a long session delivering the outcomes generated during this 3 weeks of work.

During this time, we gathered all the process documentation for each department, analyzed the current documentation, interviewed staff from each department, researched successful best practices, successes and solutions world-wide and finally we generated several recommendations for the water corporation.

There was a lot of discussion when we delivered the recommendations for every department but they were all well received and the management will support the implementation of these recommendations.

The Ogun State Water Corporation vision is to become the best water service provider in Africa so we hope with our 100 more recommendations they are able to achieve this vision and provide a better quality of water and service to the community.

 

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Week 3 Days 19, 20, 21

Third week in Nigeria, and we still had a lot to accomplish on our final recommendations to the Water Corporation but we see daily reminders of why we were chosen to be part of this amazing experience. Not just being our last week before we had to present our final presentation but we also managed to meet the Governor of Ogun State, Senator Ibikunle Amosun for a special ceremony, and along that provide a full day training on Thursday on basic and advanced excel to the Water Corporation employees. What a week!! So the next thing we knew we were setting up a training session and still had to prepare and review the material. We weren’t really sure how the training was going but considering that the room was just as full at the end of the day as it was at the beginning, we counted the training session a success, and a extra achievement for us!