The second edition of Rayda Connect, a series of conversations and learning sessions around issues that affect businesses has been held. The event, which took place at Workstation, Victoria Island, Lagos, featured panel sessions, which addressed issues such as navigating remote and distributed teams, insuring business fixed assets, and streamlining fixed assets disposal.
Addressing attendees of the event, Francis Osifo, CEO of Rayda, said that the gathering serves as an opportunity for executives and business owners to discuss their experiences in managing their businesses with more focus on the opportunities for people to collaborate and network. According to him, even more specifically, it is important to talk about the fixed assets of businesses.
“One of the things we have seen is that a lot of companies spend money acquiring fixed assets around their business, but there is usually no visibility and oversight on how those assets are moving and whether those assets are providing value for the business. Whether it is from the point where you acquire them to the point where you manage them or even to dispose of them.
“Today, a lot of our employees are not in one city or in one country. This poses some interesting problems like how to get work assets to them, how to recover these assets when they leave, how to streamline the disposal of those assets, how to ensure that those assets are secure and that the information and the intellectual property on those assets do not get tampered with therefore costing the business a lot,” he said.
The first panel dwelt on the topic; ‘Navigating Remote and Distributed Teams, moderated by Ada Armstrong, co-founder, Miniemoney.
The session had Bodunrin Akinola, head of people, Okra; Atinuke Idowu, COO, Termini and Jerry Okon, head of operations, Flex Finance, as discussants.
During the session, the challenges of working remotely were discussed. The discussants all spoke on sub-themes like tracking productivity, identifying strengths of team members as well as the employees’ challenges like internet connectivity, power, work/life balance, and more.
The second panel, ‘Insuring Assets of a Global Workforce’, moderated by Nwanne Nwonwu had Samuel Akpaniko, partnership and growth manager, Curacel and Boluwatife Omotayo, founder, Gamp, as panelists.
The session addressed issues like device insurance, especially as it concerns remote workers and businesses.
The third session, moderated by Francis Osifo was on the topic, ‘Streamlining Business Assets Disposal. The session had Boluwatife Sarumi, head of resources, Nairabet; Segun Adebayo, CEO, Pillars and Frames Limited; and Daniel Okonjo, facility manager, The Bulb Africa, as speakers.
The session had a lot of business owners who engaged on the topic as they have experienced pain points on the disposal of their fixed assets like valuation, documentation, and compliance. The session discussed solutions to these pain points as Rayda introduced PrivateSale, a platform for business owners. PrivateSale is one of Rayda’s offerings where businesses dispose of their fixed assets through a private virtual auction and get paid for the value of their assets in less than 48 hours.
Rayda Connect is an event designed to hold conversations around solutions for common business challenges, network, and collaborate. The next edition of Rayda Connect comes up later in the year.
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