Robert Brodo

Robert Brodo is co-founder of Advantexe. He has more than 20 years of training and business simulation experience.
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Leadership, Talent, and Business Scalability

By Robert Brodo | Sep 28, 2015 8:25:08 PM

Last night, I had the pleasure of enjoying another fantastic and beautiful meal at my most favorite restaurant on the planet earth: Nahm’s Thai Cuisine in Alpharetta, Georgia.  In our line of business – delivering award-winning simulation-centric business acumen, business leadership, and strategic business selling learning engagements – we have the opportunity to travel the world and eat some of the most interesting and delicious food in the world.

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A Digital Business Strategy has a Seat at the Table

By Robert Brodo | Sep 25, 2015 1:15:00 PM

In our core business simulationAdvantexe Global Enterprise Simulation (AGES) participants take control of a struggling company and try to turn it around by re-inventing the business strategy and executing the next strategy through distinct operational decisions that create differentiation.

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Hope is not a Business Strategy

By Robert Brodo | Sep 23, 2015 10:53:59 PM

The sentence hung in the air of the board room of the executive leadership team trying to evolve their business strategy.

"Well, we are getting beat on innovation by two competitors, our customer service scores are the lowest in the industry, and our cost structures and operational effectiveness metrics are also the worst in the industry. In order for us to stay out of bankruptcy, we've got to slash prices, cut costs, and hope that our competitors make some sort of mistake.

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Customer Intimacy is not the same as Customer Service

By Robert Brodo | Sep 23, 2015 10:49:00 PM

One of the fundamentals of business strategy is that in order to survive and grow, organizations must create and execute sustainable competitive advantage through a unique value proposition to customers.  In Advantexe's business simulation workshops, participants learn-by-doing by choosing a value proposition and executing their strategy in their respective competitive market.

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Strong Business Acumen or the Competency of Common Sense?

By Robert Brodo | Sep 23, 2015 9:39:00 PM

As a team of well-traveled consultants in the training and development industry, we have the privilege of working with myriad different industries, companies, leaders, and individual contributors.  With all of this variety, one could assume that's difficult to keep things straight, but the more complexity we see, the clearer the similarities in all of these pieces become.

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