Comments on: Proton new head – Syed Zainal Abidin Tahir

By: Happy New Year 2006 »

Happy New Year 2006 » — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 12:39:52 +0000

[...] I’d like to wish all my readers a happy new year. 2005 has been an interesting year for the automotive industry. Pretty exciting. We had new launches from both our largest national car manufacturers, the Perodua Myvi and the Proton Savvy. We had the controversial AP Saga involving Rafidah Aziz, Tun Dr. M and the AP Kings. A new National Automotive Policy. We saw Proton undergo a major management change, and the possibility of a take-over by Volkswagen AG. [...]

By: Man

Man — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 05:21:34 +0000

P2 thrive even before taken over by Daihatsu/Toyota. In fact the only new model after taken over is the MYVI/Sirion. Why? Oh why perodua has not made any Daihatsu or Toyota Models for export after being taken over???

By: see fat

see fat — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 08:21:34 +0000

Letâ€™s look at this appointment realisticly. What can this guy do? The only reason P2 can survive and thrive is because it has majority Japanese share holders through UMW and Daihatsu.
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yeah he is nothing special like most crony he own his survival and position the japs share in p2

By: waimak

waimak — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 02:10:33 +0000

Paul,

Do you have Syed Zainal’s HP number? I just want to ‘SMS’ him. To congratulate him and also to tell him what we customers expect out of Proton..

By: JACKIE CHAN

JACKIE CHAN — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 09:28:00 +0000

SEE FU,

Your comment is RIGHT man!
First Leader Then Workers and machines. If The other way? Macam mana boleh berjaya!

5 cents for this comment lah!

By: kRip

kRip — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:25:31 +0000

See Fu….

Ni hao ma? Hope ya’ feelin better…Regarding on ur statement to Anak Malaysia is really2 crap! Let Tn Syed Zainal Abidin do his job as a CEO of Proton. Nw tell me, hw long have u been in the automotive industry? Did you involved in designing and developed our national car? Hey See Fu. look, U dun knw anythin so u just shut up!!

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 02:28:34 +0000

Just a small hiccup for proton… after they sell Agusta.. it will be ok

By: SEE FU

SEE FU — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 02:54:58 +0000

ANAKMALAYSIA said,
December 3, 2005 @ 11:57 am

To make a best car need best engineers and production employer and not an expensive and best CEO. Engineers with high ethics will make the different.

#############
AnakM arr!!

I agree with you on something but not 100%! Why?
A good leader is actually the major cause of a SUCCESS.

Just an example, If the captain steer the ship direction to WRONG way apparently good engine and Good workers cannot help to reach the Right destination.

So, for me Most important is the LEADERSHIP of top management and then following the support from Good staffs ……..in such a condition……SUCCESS will not far from US.

Let’s say, if your boss don’t know anything about AUTOMOTIVE design how can you (as GOOD Engineer) to explain the design direction or make design changes in the best way???? I would say NO Way!! like chinese say Play music to a COW! (Tuit Gao Tann Kam)

YAU MOU GAU….CHOR!! Cheers

By: ANAKMALAYSIA

ANAKMALAYSIA — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 03:57:18 +0000

To make a best car need best engineers and production employer and not an expensive and best CEO. Engineers with high ethics will make the different.

By: KISIO

KISIO — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 06:27:22 +0000

kasi quality up, custumer servis baik2, harga murah2… semua org suka. senang saja laaa…

By: SEE FU

SEE FU — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 02:33:44 +0000

Muthu arr!!
ThX!

I think CIvil Engineer still MA-man lah! Mechanical Engineer will be the best person…………Where to find one!!

YAU MOU GAU……CHOR!! Good luck to POTONG!! 2 years only okay! I give you 2 more year to go!! Tekan Minyak kuat sikit…..sekarang juga!

By: muthu

muthu — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 01:16:14 +0000

————–SEE FU said,
December 1, 2005 @ 8:45 am

Anyone knows well about This New CEO?

Whatâ€™s his BIODATA? Marketing or Engineering background?
I think the new POTONG CEO must be a Technical strong person especially in Automotive parts design â€¦……………….————–

Name Syed Zainal Abidin Syed Mohd Tahir
Designation Managing Director
Age 43
Qualifications Bachelor Of Science (Civil Engineering) University of
Maryland…….

By: muthu

muthu — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 00:02:27 +0000

———-EC said,
December 1, 2005 @ 5:34 pm

Muthu, later P2 susah pula,
all â€œexpertiesâ€ migrating to P1————–

……this what we call open market…….

By: EC

EC — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 09:34:19 +0000

Muthu, later P2 susah pula,
all “experties” migrating to P1

By: Mah Weng Wah

Mah Weng Wah — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 08:48:23 +0000

Let’s look at this appointment realisticly. What can this guy do? The only reason P2 can survive and thrive is because it has majority Japanese share holders through UMW and Daihatsu.

What has P1 got? A whole big can of worms that is what.

Do all of you think that he can do something and turn P1 around. I think not. Wake up and smell the shit. The task of turning P1 around is not getting it out of its debt. It is about making P1 into a world class car manufacturing factory that can give Toyota, Nissan, Honda or even GM a run for its money. Now do you guys still think that this guy can do this?

He does not need luck, he needs a goddamn miracle.
So don’t wish him kuck my friends, we had better pray.

By: rafreez

rafreez — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 05:44:04 +0000

so I’ll be expecting good results in 2008 from Potong…attention people…please think +ve so all our Msian +ve aura will help Proton…Hidup Proton…

See fu…kesianlah…paul!! cannot create webpage with user login for comments…anybody can cause fight between friends…Batu Api…

By: SEE FU

SEE FU — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 04:26:40 +0000

Attention pls!!

I found some F**KER copy my Nickname and give f**king comment on others.
So if you do found such kind of comment, JUST ignore it. THis He/she must be a PSYcho. What the f**k to use other person name to Said bad words to others. I wish this f**KER will be FOUND soon!!

YAU MOU GAUâ€¦â€¦â€¦CHOR!!

Paul can you find this f**ker for me?

By: eCUN

eCUN — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 04:11:53 +0000

Hell yeah…!!! if better offer why not…??? Many P1 engineer already lari to P2… last time boss don’t want to accept any proposal… boss always right… dictator… right now with new boss… dah kawan lama kat P2 takkan tak nak masuk P1 for the sake of improving P1… but improving or not… orang makan gaji dapat gaji OK lar… this type of people will make no difference… so, just wait and see…

By: muthu

muthu — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 03:05:58 +0000

just wait N C…….. bungkus bungkus bungkus…… cannot tahan maaa…… i think he will bring his men from P2 to help him……

By: SEE FU

SEE FU — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:45:50 +0000

Anyone knows well about This New CEO?

What’s his BIODATA? Marketing or Engineering background?
I think the new POTONG CEO must be a Technical strong person especially in Automotive parts design …..I means the basic understanding of how the car is constructed and manufacturing process. That’s the minimun requirement man.

Therefore, most of the successful Automotive Leader or CEO are Engineer background, I means at least a Mechanical Engineering degree.

I just hope this new CEO can really understand Automotive not only the marketing strategy. POTONG biggest problems is Technical decision, future model selection and direction which need the technical skills to do so, and quality issue has a very closed relationship with Technical decision too. Starting from Design til manufacturing and quality control.

YAU MOU GAU….CHOR!! When is the new CEO effectivity date lei? From 1st of JAN ??? Should be immediately lah no time for vacantion Okay!!

By: Chineseman

Chineseman — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 15:16:00 +0000

Stop ALL corruption inside PROTON and PROTON will start to make money… its as simple as that…

By: Apex

Apex — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:53:37 +0000

I hope this man can improve the Proton condition,at least the quality and proper future plan for Proton.It`s bcos in 2 years,local company can`t produce a new model except of rebadge/minor engineering change.Good luck for Proton!Hope Proton + Perodua + Naza = Honda/Toyota hehehe..

By: kanasai

kanasai — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:42:11 +0000

going to losse RM 154,300,000.00 !!! what on earth is going on in proton… last time mention going to loose like RM 12 million… ok is 8 figure sum.. in within the same year now going to loose 9 figure!!! how can this be happening?? my god.. 2006 is not a good year for proton. if dunno Q3 and Q4 will raise this figure to 10 or not… wut the point investing all this money oversea… wasted all of it… lotus not making money and MV Agus dunno what ta also sucking money from Proton. it’s getting worse… where are the improvement in proton…? and those idiots telling us not to bash Proton.. im very sick of hearing it as Proton is like a symbol of “Pls Hate Me”, “Pls Bash Me” and yet Proton will still give u a wide smile to it’s own grave sucking Malaysian hard earn money….

By: burn

burn — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:07:21 +0000

e-cun, re: 5 langkah pulih proton

are they in the order of importance? If so, note that kawalan kos lebih baik comes BEFORE penambahbaik quality. Kawalan kos lebih baik means call out tender for supplier/interior finishes vendors and award to the most competitive. Those who don’t have orang dalam will have to lower price gila babi and then supply plastic tupperware for the dashboard finish. Savvy’s the living (barely) proof. Those with orang dalam will sub to a vendor, who will sub to another vendor and it goes on and on and on until this poor sod has to make the dashboard with very little gain. The result, more tupperware.

Actually i’m insulting tupperware. Their plastics are less plasticcy than savvy dashboard.

By: eCUN

eCUN — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:12:42 +0000

Of course la… they nak pujuk hati Proton owner and PB tm… plus their shares holders… if lucky due to that statement the shares able to go up a lil bit… if they really can change, everybody will happy maa… including the PB… trust me… the pure PB is the Proton owner and ex-Proton owner… once a while they are proud of the national car… until the quality really make them headache and be the regular at CSS or tepi jalan wks… then finally they feel pissed off by P1 and become PB… like revenge of the sith la this one… deep inside still have the pride of the nation… and hope Proton improvement to be real… because 80% only able to buy proton car due to income, loan or whatsoever… they bashing P1 but they still use it everyday… no choice… say whatever… but I will say no choice for the rakyat marhain…

By: [Half-Half PBâ„¢] HatukNgkau

[Half-Half PBâ„¢] HatukNgkau — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:28:21 +0000

eCun… the 5 langkah thing in the press…. i say, cakap saja lebih… whether it will work or not… i doubt it… plus the 5 solutions sounds to be copied direct from management textbooks!!! anybody can quote, but nobody can do anything…

now that they have changed the power structure… isit becoz they wana limit that new guy’s power from changing the things around? plus,

“Kami membuat keputusan ini, memandangkan semasa proses temuduga, jelas tiada individu yang memenuhi semua kriteria yang ditetapkan oleh Lembaga Pengarah”

what kind of criteria? only accept those who are willing to “cari makan” sama-sama and keep their mouth shut if anything happened?

By: yhtan

yhtan — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:46:36 +0000

Lets hope this guy will be a good leader for proton,
But the way,call government don’t interfere any business on it

By: hehehaha

hehehaha — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:46:01 +0000

difficult job for this guy to clean up the mess… fingers crossed i would say… no high expectations though…

By: honda_driver

honda_driver — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:40:42 +0000

proton might have “lost” 158million this quarter, doesn’t mean they’re in financial difficulty.

By: eCUN

eCUN — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:11:25 +0000

Not enough power… it’s no longer CEO… only MD…

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Pengerusi Proton, Datuk Azlan Hashim dalam sidang akhbar di ibu pejabat Proton di sini berkata, Lembaga Pengarah Proton telah memutuskan supaya struktur organisasi pengurusan perlu berasaskan fungsi, menggambarkan struktur yang sama dengan syarikat automotif utama.

Mengikut struktur baru, jawatan utama pengurusan Proton yang dulunya dipanggil Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif (CEO), kini Pengarah Urusan manakala jawatan lain ialah Ketua Perkilangan dan Kejuruteraan, Ketua Jualan dan Pemasaran serta Ketua Strategi dan Perkhidmatan Korporat.

Azlan turut mengumumkan pelantikan Datuk Kisai Rahmat, yang kini Ketua Pegawai Operasi (COO) bersama Proton sebagai Pengarah Eksekutif Bahagian Kejuruteraan dan Perkilangan.

Seorang lagi COO bersama Proton, Datuk Kamarulzaman Darus dilantik sebagai Pengarah Perkilangan.

“Kami membuat keputusan ini, memandangkan semasa proses temuduga, jelas tiada individu yang memenuhi semua kriteria yang ditetapkan oleh Lembaga Pengarah.

“Penyelesaian praktikal bagi Proton ialah mewujudkan sebuah pasukan individu yang saling menyokong dan akan bersama membawa kemahiran dan kecekapan untuk memimpin ikon nasional seperti Proton,” katanya.

Pada September lalu, Proton melantik perunding carian eksekutif untuk bekerjasama dengan Lembaga Pengarah bagi mencari pengganti kepada CEO Kumpulan, Tan Sri Tengku Mahaleel Tengku Ariff yang tidak disambung kontraknya.

Azlan berkata, pencarian itu bermula dengan senarai pertama antara 30 hingga 40 individu dan selepas penilaian awal, 22 orang telah dihubungi.
“Daripada 22 calon itu, 12 calon terdiri daripada sembilan rakyat tempatan dan tiga asing telah disenarai pendek.

“Seorang calon menarik diri manakala 10 orang lagi tidak bersedia atau tidak sesuai bagi jawatan itu atas pelbagai sebab,” katanya.

Menurut Syed Zainal Abidin, semua pihak boleh merangka aktiviti untuk memantapkan Proton dari sekarang bagi memastikan kejayaan pada masa hadapan.

“Saya percaya kekuatan sedia ada pada Proton boleh dipertingkatkan dan kita harus memiliki hala tuju yang sama merangkumi Proton, kerajaan dan peserta dalam industri,” ujarnya.