Articles

Making Money While Merging

By Kevin Owyang

Published in Harts Energy Markets

Faced with conflicting objectives, it is essential to blend traditional management doctrines with newer management techniques and concepts to provide a balanced solution.

Senior managers of unregulated energy companies often find themselves with three conflicting objectives. They must build an organization that can quickly and dynamically adjust to the evolving marketplace, gain the support of a corporate parent accustomed to a more predictable, regulated marketplace, and manage through the uncertainty and turbulence presented by the consolidation of the energy industry as a whole. If executed poorly, the simultaneous pursuit of all objectives can limit the progress of any.

When Margins Fall: The Market Lifecycle

By Kevin Owyang

Published in Public Utilities Fortnightly

Your trading desk and how to manage it.

Deregulation has prompted many energy industry participants to establish trading functions, with varying degrees of success. While some have been very profitable, others have suffered severe losses.

Most participants agree that when profits are dependent upon commodity prices, a trading organization is necessary to maximize returns. But how to determine the right size and type of trading organization? That will depend on the company's place in the commodity life cycle. Although no formula exists for calculating the right size for a trading organization, their different types may be classified.Therein lies a host of lessons for managing a trading desk.

Avolusis Journal

By Kevin Owyang

Here you’ll find things that have everything to do with Avolusis along with things that have nothing to do with Avolusis!

This is our blog -- consider it an open notebook of emerging thoughts and ideas.