About the Authors

Edward has over 15 years of experience in the energy (Oil & Gas) sector and is knowlegeable/skilled in SAP (PM/MM), Maintenance Strategy & Planning, Integrated Activity Planning, Tender bidding & contract management + Stakeholder management, Management Systems implementation, sustainability, and assurance. More can be found on author’s LinkedIn profile.

Blog Frequency & Topics

Writing Frequency – Committed – Weekly Frequency on fixed topic, “Application of Octalysis Framework” – I will walk through an area of interest elaborating about my thoughts on the 8 Octalysis Framework Core Drives and how they can be applied (Disclaimer: These are my personal experiences and education, if they differ from yours please do enlighten me through the comments). The 8 Core Drives:

• CD1 Epic Meaning & Calling
• CD2 Development & Accomplishment
• CD3 Empowerment of Creativity & Feedback
• CD4 Ownership & Possession
• CD5 Social Influence & Relatedness
• CD6 Scarcity & Impatience
• CD7 Unpredictability & Curiousity
• CD8 Loss & Avoidance

Areas of Interests:

• Assurance & Internal Auditing
• Maintenance
• Occupational Health & Safety
• Managing Supply Chain
• Environment Management
• Quality Management
• Operations & Production
• Parenting

I have used the 2nd half of December to practice the above topics and there was much learning along the way in terms of how I needed to write my content, managing my grammar and making references. I’ve come across the Octalysis Framework since 2018 and have been looking at the world through it’s lenses since.

Ad-Hoc Writing

While I have the above planned write ups, I will also inject other learnings as time permits. i.e, I also learn from Arthur Carmazzi on the Directive Communication Psychology ‘s gamification frameworks and methodologies as well.

Yu Kai’s contents on Octalysis Framework is all over the place from theory to implementation, but Arthur’s is very focused and direct into implementation. I chose to write based on Octalysis Framework, because it provides a more (in my opinion) broader view of the possibilities (due to it’s vague prescriptions).