"There are no administrative or operational challenges if there is nothing to operate yet."--Ryoko
I see your point here Ryoko, but I still must disagree. A lot of work and thought went into scaling the processor up from it's original prototype size to the 20 and 30 ton size. There must have been countless engineering decisions to make to bring together all the scattered components of the original prototype into an efficient, mass producible product, with the right size pipes, properly tempered steel, valves, exhaust and feed systems, and on and on, not to mention setting up a supply chain for parts and a means to manufacture the beasts.
Now they are at a different stage, that of figuring out how best to conduct the roll out. In my opinion there will be a similar set of complex needs to work out. JB is clearly thinking on a large scale. The fact that they were in negotiations with RTK for over a year and then signed a contract to partner up with them gives a lot credence to the Company's claims that over a dozen other companies are interested in their fuel, and others still besides these are interested in working out a RTK type deal with JBI. This implies a huge scaling up of pragmatic administrative models that can be simultaneously implemented across multiple locations involving multiple, independent companies, each of which requires new staffing and training and all these new hires and the functionings they perform need in turn to be looped back in an efficient way to a central administrative headquarters so that every new site has a good communication flow system in place.
Among other things, then, they need to figure out what the ratio is between the number of employees out in the field versus the number needed at the main headquarters to keep all this information flowing smoothly. We already know, for instance, that the IR department is swamped. Presumably their sales force is likewise swamped. I'm sure there are some playbooks out there that can help provide a rough blueprint. But there's much that is new in what JBI is trying to do that they'll have to work out themselves. JBI also appears to have a product that will be in great demand both here in North America ando around the globe. So apart from figuring out efficient systems that can be, so-to-speak, modularized and repeatedly employed at new sites, they need to take into consideration the speed with which they take on new work so they don't unduely stifle themselves with obligations they cann't keep up with to keep their new customers satisfied. And it seems to me they would be very foolish not to take a serious look at these issues before they start setting up processors out in the field.
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