One key point that stands out and kept us thinking is the concept of uniqueness, or simply put BAFCO’s ‘only’. This might sound like we are bragging but this is a step that we have to make in order to understand our strengths and leverage on them for our clients to understand.
1. We are a Specialist.
BAFCO is the ONLY dedicated company in the gulf region whose sole focus is developing integrated furniture, design and build solutions for corporate offices with two decades of experience.
2. Ergonomic Consultancy via Humanscale, USA
BAFCO is the ONLY UAE company that can deliver consultancy services on how to transform an ordinary office to a more ergonomic, healthier thus more productive work environment.
3. Integrity of our Promise.
Whether your project is for a small office furniture requirement or as large as the full design and build of Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University, you can rest assured that we keep our promise of delivering quality service and a small at every transaction with BAFCO.
4. Award Winning Partner
BAFCO is the ONLY company awarded by the UAE government as “Supplier of the Year” for a timely, efficient and cost effective products used for the entire back office operations of the Dubai Airport Terminal 3.
Our commitment to our client is an assurance of quality delivery for their projects provided by a team of well-trained and friendly professionals.
Being in a multicultural team, calamities reminds us how we are all connected no matter what race, religion or nationality you have. Everyone here at BAFCO extended their arm to help out the victims of Typhoon Ketsana in the Philippines.
If you would like to extend your help, Cash Donations to Philippine Red Cross is the best and fastest way or via drop boxes that are spread throughout the malls in the UAE.
Last April 2009, the entire management team of BAFCO has attended a very insightful seminar. The course that we attended was called ‘Leadership in Times of Crisis’ for obvious reasons; the title reflects the anarchic nature of global businesses and stock markets.
In this seminar, Tony Buzan – a global leader in many fields – have worked with us to develop our own leadership skills, and thus enable each one on the leadership post and the entire BAFCO team to be among those who make fortunes in times such as the present.
We now see the current situation as a long standing forest that is suddenly threatened buy a violent storm or hurricane. Most people’s reaction is one of horror, despair and panic that such a long standing growth has been destroyed. There is however, another far more interesting, productive and creative perspective: that of the forest floor! For two to three hundred years the forest floor has been under the canopy of the giant trees, which almost totally blocked out sunlight. It is a serious time for businesses to gain tremendous growth and gain bigger share of the forest. The Mandarin Chinese word for crisis i written in two separate characters. The first: Danger. The second: Opportunity.
In this seminar, we have established that the opportunity is for us to grab. It is only those who can lead that a true leader in the market can emerge and grasp many opportunities that these crises offer. Aside from the leadership part, we have learned a fundamental tool for better comprehension, and that is MIND MAPPING.
Tomorrow, March 28, at almost exactly the same time tonight, we will witness the second participation of Dubai for the global campaign for climate change – EARTH HOUR.
We are asking everyone here in the UAE to switch off all non-essential lights from 8.30pm to 9.30pm on March 28, to send a message and join the campaign around the world that says we have the power to take action against global warming and by working together we can make a huge difference.
Earth Hour Website
The Walk, part of Dubai Properties’ Jumeirah Beach Residence development, will be the focal point for this year’s official Earth Hour activities in Dubai. Other activities will include switching off the exterior lighting at a number of Dubai landmarks, including the Burj Al Arab, Madinat Jumeirah, Emirates Towers, DIFC, and the offices of Dubai Holding and its entities, DEWA and du.
Last year, when Dubai became the first Arab city to participate in Earth Hour, electricity consumption in the city was reduced by more than 100,000kwH during the one hour power down.
Earth Hour, which began in Sydney, Australia in 2007, is now a worldwide environmental movement that will see up to one billion people turn off non-essential lighting and other electrical appliances. It will roll through 25 time zones, starting on New Zealand’s Chatham Islands and ending in the Pacific Time Zone.
Billed, by the WWF, as the largest mass participation effort ever, Earth Hour will embrace more than 1,500 cities in over 80 countries. In addition to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and Fujeirah, in the UAE, lights will be switched off or dimmed in all the world’s major cities, including Sydney, Beijing, Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore, Mumbai, Delhi, Cape Town, Athens, Paris, Berlin, London, New York, Toronto, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro and Honolulu.
Individual action to curb climate change can be as simple as turning off a mobile phone charger when it is not in use, switching off the television or CD player at the wall, rather than leaving it on stand-by, turning off unused lights, or making sure office and home computers are completely shut down.
To participate and learn more, you can follow the following:
Ron Kaufman is the world’s leading educator and motivator for uplifting customer service, partnerships and superior service culture. He is the author of the bestselling customer service training book UP Your Service! and the founder of UP Your Service! College.
With the help of this training we intend to continuously work hard to deliver UNBELIEVABLE customer service. As the famous quote from Ron Kaufman, “Service is the currency that keeps the economy moving. I serve you in one way, you serve me in another. When one of us improves, things get better. When both of us improve, it really makes a difference. When everyone improves, the world grows closer together.”
We owe a big thanks to all the visitors who visited and made our stand the best stand in the entire 3 day run of the Office Exhibition 2009 held in Dubai Exhibition Halls last March 3-5, 2009.
Office Hours is a weblog featuring workplace design, furniture, materials, and culture.
Isn’t it a fact that you spend most part of each day in your office? This makes it true that work spaces should be a place where you actually enjoy spending time. And your work area should support you to get your job done, right? It should allow you to be creative or concentrate whenever needed.
So through Office Hours, we wanted to look at what makes a good workplace, perhaps on the news, online, places that we have seen and maybe even our very own respective offices. We’ll try to piece out the creative ideas behind desks, chairs, walls, floors, technology and anything that you can lay your eyes in the office.
We’ll find ways on how to spend our Office Hours a little bit better every day.
CONTRIBUTORS:
Gilbert Griño, from Dubai, UAE, a landscape architect and enthusiast of modern workplaces, furniture, and design.
Michelle Santos, a Dubai expat who is currently residing in Bur Dubai, and graphic designer by heart and a full time cubicle warrior.
Rhea Aviles, another Dubai expat who understands and enjoys good conversation.
All three of us work in Bafco, a company known for its executive line of furniture and office interiors division in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, UAE. We are not here trying to sell anything, we are here to learn from you and to listen to the workplace challenges that you are facing.
All photographs, product names, quotes and otherwise are copyrighted and/or trademarked by their respective owners.
