Strategic Planning

Advok8 is an expert in the process of complex strategic planning, whereas the whole point is to set the bar as high as possible and define an earth-shattering strategy to deliver.

Digitization: The Most Interesting Word in Energy

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Application of Digital Technology Advok8 is a strategic consultancy, always exploring business and technology opportunities in the Energy Industry.  The calls for digital transformation and modernization and automation and remote management and …  all transformational!  There is a scene at the beginning of the movie George Patton.  He diverts his Jeep from its intended course…

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Eco-System Strategy in Product Management

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Thinking about product management and the most common behavior, it could be said that it is incredibly restrictive and limiting. Typically a Product Manager/Marketeer/Engineer is assigned one or more products. This person becomes the aggregator of all strategy, roadmaps, and documentation on the products being built. In other words, this singular entity gathers everything to…

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Eco-System Development and Importance

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The next ten years promise a $100 trillion marketplace for eco-system development. I made the number up. I did so because eco-system potential is not quantifiable. It represents platforms built by Goggle, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft. It represents giant manufacturers like Alibaba, Foxconn, Samsung, Mitsubishi, Toyota, and Volkswagon. It represents pharmaceutical giants like Johnson & Johnson,…

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REENGINEERING SALES ORGANIZATIONS FOR GROWTH AND SUCCESS

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Advok8 Strategic Brief October 2020, Part 1 By Steve A. Day, President of Advok8, ©Coypright 2020, Advok8 The economic recovery over the next two or three years will be the most important goals for most multi-national companies that are trying to recast their existing strategies based upon a new reality.  The easy answer is to…

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Realities of a Jobless Economy

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Will we be working in traditional jobs in 10 years? We are suffering through a COVID Pandemic which is a 100-year event.  Of course, as this occurs, one of the first things which has happened is massive levels of unemployment.  Without the demand for goods and services; businesses contracted.  As businesses contract, the first thing…

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Power Utilities: Moving beyond IoT to revenue defined distribution

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2020 declining power utility electric service revenue accelerates need for new steams of business.

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Strategic Relocation

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I read an article the other day from an executive who suggested that post-COVID, returning to business as usual was the key. It was an article that was dismissive of the impact the first half of 2020 had on any business. A minor hiccup. Regardless of where you are at on this subject, one thing…

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Never Give Up … But maybe take a different path

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We are certainly in a weird and unprecedented place. COVID, unemployment, stock market fluctuations, Black Lives Matter, fascism in the Republican Party, loss of leadership on the World Stage, and on and on. Some of this will fade away. Some of this will completely change the way we view our lives, our careers, and our…

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Growth is about Happiness in the Workplace

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Growth in any organization is vital to its survival. There are a few old sayings that come to mind. “Grow or die.” “Go big or go home.” There are more, but one simple quote is meaningful to this article. “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”  John F. Kennedy As we build new programs for…

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