Category: Agribusiness, Meat, & Other Food
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...
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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...
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Who loves your business like Texans love Buc-ee’s?
California has Yosemite. (more…)
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Be 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 a new announcement about a food retailer acquiring or partnering with a food delivery business, meal kit service, robotics, facial recognition tech,...
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Spotify, 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 chains of all types are reorganizing to be digital & data driven. In meat and poultry, the retail space is seeing it in...
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