Category: Agribusiness, Meat, & Other Food
The Commodity Business in Food and Agriculture is Over
the era of the commodity business is over. That’s now changing for one simple reason: the rapid evolution of high powered analytics tools tailored to the food and ag …
Read ArticleA Prescriptive Punt: how a risky decision on fourth-and-4 changed my thinking
How risk aware was that football forecast? For those of you who didn’t watch the game (or have since blocked it from your memory), let me catch you up: the Colts made …
Read ArticleGoogle Maps for Decision Makers?
If you surveyed 10 people, you’d get 10 different definitions for each and probably a lot of “umms”. So let’s talk about road tripping instead. Think of how our process …
Read ArticleWho loves your business like Texans love Buc-ee’s?
California has Yosemite. Montana has Glacier National Park. Texas has Buc-ee’s. What is Buc-ee’s, you ask? First things first, it’s pronounced “Bucky’s”. Second, let’s …
Read ArticleBe more than a meathead.
Go look at Cargill’s job postings and you’ll see almost as many job openings for data science & technologists as feedmill operators. It seems every other day there’s …
Read ArticleSpotify, Chick-Fil-A & digital data driven value chains
Chick-Fil-A announced plans to launch a meal kit product available at restaurants so consumers can skip a subscription service or a stop at the grocery store. Value …
Read ArticleThe Edge of the World (Cup)
Making investing decisions requires the same discipline around decisions that purchasing, sales, and pricing teams make every single day. So if that’s you, how are you …
Read ArticleDisney dares dynamic pricing; Will you?
You might be thinking, “But this is the meat business. To some degree pricing for even the most value added products are still tied to the commodity market and our …
Read ArticleToys R Us or Cargill?
Before you decide, consider 2 recent articles. Whether you were a Toys R Us kid or not, you probably know this company has gone from king of retail to asset liquidation. …
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