Passionland

Happy New Year all!!
It’s been 2 grueling years of finding qualified team members, training, struggling, and entering many big battles. With it, we have also experienced several great victories. Entering this third year, will our days be a mere continuation of what has passed?

Many have stated that the first three years are the most crucial stage. It is the trial phase for a company to prove themselves, whether their concept can really be executed and such. Like in motion pictures, the third installment in a trilogy is the climax; the peak of what has been weaved in the episodes before.

So what action will we take in this coming third year to path our ways to the years ahead?

The answer lies in these two elements:

1. Healthy Year

Going back to our vision in OCTOVATE Group, we strive to make this company the most passionate and healthiest place. We truly hope that this will not be just a vision, a formality for the company, but will become something that OCTOVATE family truly embodies.

Let’s take a moment to think about the word HEALTH and PASSION.

Work and career are two significant life components. Those are the vehicles that enable us to pursue our goals in life. In that case, if the environment in which we work is not healthy and passionate enough, what effects will it has on our own physical and mental wellbeing?

If in these past two years we’ve experienced the importance of passion, this next year will be the time we all start to focus ourselves to pay more attention to our health; not just the physical aspect of health, but health in a broader perspective. Take baby steps by entering the year with passion to work, creating a fun working surrounding, being selective in choosing our battles, and in the end enjoying a healthy reward financially as well.

Being healthy is much easier said than done. It takes high level of commitment and discipline. There need to be a lot of improvement in system, from the project management side, human resource, and off course the finance side.

2. New Creative Business Galaxy

While in the micro plan, we’ve established 2008 as the year to be healthy, in the macro plan; we are aiming to strengthen OCTOVATE’s position as a major player in the creative industry group by continuously developing our business while staying true to our vision.

There will be several new innovations on our behalf, such as mobile division, music label, film investment & production, Internet, and many more new businesses that we feel is still staying true to our creative and commercial goal.

In conclusion, the two points above will most likely be our focus in the year 2008. No doubt, with our passion for knowledge, innovation, and achievement, we will blaze through this prospective New Year.

Without further a do, I would like to say Good Luck Octokers. God bless you all!!

This week has sucked the energy out of me, but at the same time, has drenched me with a new kind of energy. In a nutshell, that’s how I felt this past week.

As the chief of the highly passionate Octopus Team, I have spent the whole last week preparing for the trip of a lifetime, commemorating our 2nd anniversary. A trip full of passion, wildness, and satisfaction. Five individuals from different backgrounds were gathered to brainstorm, and plan the event. As a result, PASSION TRIP was born.

The event was to be held in Bali for a full three days. Three main events were planned; Passionrace, Passion Jackass, and Passion Show. The team worked days and night to do a field survey, find some coordinators and locations for the passion race. Not to mention, passport for each individuals were also put together up to the last minute.

It all went down seamlessly up until two days before the event. The phone rang… a voice on the other end said; “Bernhard, congratulation! You got the project.” It was Dino Patti Djalal, the special staff of the president. I was left frozen. The octopus icon and the face of President SBY were floating on my mind.

When two equally hefty task need to be done, when both has to run smoothly, there need to be a sacrifice…. For this reason, I was on four flights between Jakarta-Bali within 48 hours. There is no way I am going to back down from this achievement that we all have worked hard for in the past couple of months. It was my love for my Octopus Team that made me stay for at least a couple hours in between their events.

My Point is I would like to send a big THANKS to all of the passionate committee and to all passionate octokers.
I might have missed a lot of those passionate moments, but I can still feel your energetic passion, the new spirit that makes us different.

Guys, hopefully, with our second anniversary, we can learn what it is like to be passionate in work, struggle, fight, and play.

Once again, on behalf of the management, I would like to express my true gratitude for all your effort that has brought us to be who we are today.

God Bless you all.

Dear my Passionate Team & Partners,

What a year…. Looking back on the past year has left me speechless.
We’ve worked our ass of as if there’s no tomorrow. We’ve overcome so much, achieved exceedingly, and learn tremendously. Just like a child who started by crawling, we’ve grow and now are running on a rapid speed.
It’s been great. Hell, it’s been fuckin’ great.
But how great is great? Will what we’ve won and achieved so far be able to fulfill our Passion for Achievement?
I believe, to grow we need a solid foundation, a sharp mind and a strong physique to enable us to always run and run….

If last August we all have stated that we are passionate beings, I now challenge you to have a very passionate trip full of excitement.
The bottom line is, I want you to go wild and HAVE FUN!!!

Bernhard Subiakto
Chief Passion Officer
Octovate Group

Hi, I’m Ben. Well, I’m not David Ogilvy nor Alex Bogusky nor Steve Jobs. But this is my tale about building a Passionland, a passion landmark in creative industry.

Octovate was born of a dream and passion, that’s why I call it passionland. It’s a place where I live with the Octovate family that has same dream and passion. Yes, we’re still green and young with bunch of flaws, but that makes us learn endlessly and striving to create a unique character of ourselves. We are passionate individual, we are slim sized and shaped spartan soldiers with fighting passion to create masterpieces. We have a clear destination and focus which evolve us. We don’t have an ambition of becoming a heavy weight giant, in fact we’re just a sexy-slim company that really love at what we do.

It’s like little children having fun and playing around, that’s how we do it in Octovate. Even though we’re just two years old, but all captains of our business units are frankly bizzare passionate talent in this industry.

We’re not Apple Computers nor WPP nor Google, but we’re a meteorite, ready to dash flexibly like a flying octopus. Yeah! We’re Octovate Group the Innovation Octopus.