The Managing Director of Boptec Ventures Limited, Phillips Oyelakin, says the company operates a value chain of system automation (office and factory automation) and logistics, facility management, estate project management, filling station automation, enterprise softwares, training and technical support. As federal government licensed recruiters and labour contractors, Boptec partners with companies abroad to deliver quality products and services to Nigerians.
With the aim of promoting a paperless operation in offices and supporting the system with softwares, financial accounting applications and enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions for various industries, human capital management system, E-LMS (training), Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) and e-signatures, Mr Oyelakin said: "With all these apparatus, business can be coordinated, approval process can be augumented anywhere, anytime. We key into these new dynamics of doing business, which is why we have positioned ourselves to encourage people to embrace these promoted products".
In regards to the acceptability of softwares by the people of Oyo state, he expressed thus : "It is an environment-bound business. We made a strategic move to Abuja where we have promising clients and our product lines and services will be appreciated. We are spreading our tentacles. The economic configuration of Ibadan cannot be easily compared to these notable locations. We do business in Lagos too, but we are really comfortable at Ibadan and are hopeful that Ibadan too will get to embrace these technologies in no time".
Going down memory lane, he revealed that Boptec started with the desire to ';come back home and make positive impacts in our environment. We keep re-investing our resources to ensure that the business becomes common knowledge to people, and adding our own quota to national development';. He was also inspired by the need of helping teeming graduates get jobs, which gained him credence as a licensed recruiter by the federal government and recruitment became part of his business. From an enterprise to a limited liability company, Mr Oyelakin leverages on his overseas training to fix business mechanisms in Nigeria.
He acknowledged the challenges he faced and likened it to the ones experienced by any sole proprietor. With no support from banks or the government, Mr Oyelakin had to effectively utilise the little resources he had to achieve his goals. For Boptec, he said their growth has been steady and gave thanks to the Almighty God for sustaining the vision of Boptec Ventures.
He said the ultimate ambition of Boptec Ventures is to "impact lives, tackle unemployment and bring succour into the challenges people are facing". Stressing the importance of having a vision, Boptec equally aspires to be at the forefront of the technology being promoted and add value to the agricultural sector in the country.
Relating to national development, he said the federal government should provide sustainable infrastructures, enable conducive environment,viable tax system, encourage local enterpreneurs and secure foreign investors participation,establishment of more factories in Nigeria for both local consumption and export purposes, instead of exporting our natural resources and not making profits. This move, he said, will help get unemployed youths out of the streets and working. In his words; "Let our local content policy be reviewed to favour our people and there should be regulations across boards". He hoped for a future where each of the states in Nigeria will have their commercial agriculture system (self-sustaining agricultural system) and sustain themselves independently, based on their natural resources.
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