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How Data and AI Are Driving the Procurement Revolution

In today’s data-driven world, there’s more access to information than ever before. Maybe even too much. Take the domestic meat industry for example where the landscape has shifted dramatically, especially since the USDA began tracking volume and price on every ribeye and strip loin under the 1999 Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act. The sheer amount of […]

The Resources Company Growth Challenge

Resources companies mostly grow through acquisition, whether focused on the early stage and seeking exploration farm-ins, or focused on the late stage and seeking fully developed assets. Either way, when buyers emerge en masse, the potential for asset prices to exceed real long-term value is high. So, what can CEOs...

How are biases hijacking your decisions?

Last week I overheard an interview taking place in Starbucks. (more…)

10 principles leaders in the Mining Industry should use when making decisions

Stanway, Hart, and Taylor of Virtual Consulting recommend that investors apply a set of principals to their decision making. The economists John Galbraith, Robert Hagstrom, and Howard Marks have derived the following rules for successful investments: Mining is a cyclical business. Minerals are limitless, but supply will inevitably lag behind...

Tyson, Cargill, microbreweries, & #fakemeat

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Hey Amazon, enough with the boxes already

Actually a lot of people are asking questions around the amount of waste created by Amazon as a result of this excessive packaging issue. After all, it stands to reason that if Amazon right sized the packaging for the contents for my order and your order and the orders of...

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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