الأستاذ محمد إبراهيم تقد يتحدث بلندن يوم السبت 10 مايو ‏‏2008‏

Talat

BP is hardly an environmental saint let alone a “Green Company” or one run .. as euphuistically with modern managerial techniques … it still has one Center that is accountable to shareholders … then other stakeholders. It is an Oil Major and exhibits all the strengths and weaknesses inherent in that classification

Trying to develop other profit centers or new pathways in R&D ought not obscure that its primary business remains “oil and gas” and its own assessments of none hydrocarbon alternatives, in terms of market penetration, are decades away. It is using its current new windfalls not for building additional capacity or much else beyond compensating its shareholders in extra dividends for the past lean years. Using solar power to maintain its stations or engaging CO2 mitigation strategies are more PR and "Brand Positioning" than a genuine conversion

Ustaz Nugud, not withstanding, the SCP is non-profit organization, with that comes a different skill-set (more so when it is a political one) as well as context. Making the SCP into a more effective organization will be a much deeper process than merely one involving reengineering a structure or condemning a word that we often confuse its place/function or replacing an individual ..etc

I will also add that the claims of the detractors of centralism often tend to espouse what they claim to abhor most, dogma, often confusing form over function … the lack of a Center is not, in itself, a benchmark for organizational modernity, accountability, and/or effectiveness. In fact in the corporate world, there is always an center (effective or otherwise) as well as a clear hierarchy. Planning is practiced and delegating tasks tends to go without forfeiting responsibility, with Chief Officers (CEOs and CFOs ..etc) having a fiduciary responsibility that that transcend the organization