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Employee Spotlight: Orlando Rodriguez, Customer Success Specialist

As we continue to grow, our partners’ success becomes an even more critical piece of the puzzle. That’s where Orlando comes in. This month, we chatted with him about his background, fostering trust and collaboration, and his secret to keeping customers coming back. Can you share a bit about your background and how it led […]

Turning Thermal Coal to Copper? Why the Metrics Matter

There would seem to be a good number of reasons not to do this. Firstly, in a diversified mining company everyone who doesn’t work in the copper division suddenly feels slightly subjacent - especially those divisions that contribute more to the Group than copper. I’ve done the calculations for one...

The Commodity Business in Food and Agriculture is Over

the era of the commodity business is over. (more…)

A 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 the decision to go for it on fourth-and-4 at their own 43-yard line...with 24 seconds left in...

Cost Curves and Curve Balls

Cost curves are a staple of the mining industry, similar in shape to a traditional supply curve, ranking mines/smelters/mills by their total cost of production. The theory goes that when the demand curve shifts to the left, as it inevitably will with the business cycle, those with the highest costs will be...

Google 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 for planning how to get from point A to point B has changed over time. Atlas - Remember when you...

Where Meat-Buying Intuition Meets Artificial Intelligence

DecisionNext has produced this whitepaper which focuses on how its patented machine-learning technology combines with your industry expertise to produce a competitive edge. In this case, we will dive into how today’s new tools build powerful forecast scenarios in order to nail the timing of a buy for holiday beef ribs in highly unpredictable market […]

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