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APRIL 25, 2018
Sales and marketing’s role in liquidity
For better or worse, marketing and sales efforts affect not only the profitability of a firm but also the firm’s liquidity, or its ability to meet short-term financial obligations.
APRIL 17, 2018
Decision discipline
You make business decisions every single day. Every once in a while, a decision comes along with the potential to be a game changer for your organization.
JANUARY 17, 2018
Disruption and chaos
The agri-food system is changing and your organization is no doubt working through the ways to cultivate competitive advantage in an industry that’s moving at warp speed. But disruption and chaos in the marketplace isn’t necessarily always a bad thing.
OCTOBER 26, 2017
Efficiency not the only factor in successful supply chain/operations
A large part of the retail business is about supply chain management and operations, or SCO. Traditionally, SCO management has often been associated with efficiency, but that’s not necessarily an all-encompassing way to think about SCO strategy.
SEPTEMBER 7, 2017
Producer perceptions of agricultural risk in 2017
Yield and price risk take center stage in most discussions surrounding risk in agriculture. While these are obviously important aspects of risk to any farm business, the risks faced by agricultural producers are much broader than prices received for products sold and the risks associated with physical production of outputs.
AUGUST 15, 2017
Generational transfer of decision-making
There isn't much attention paid to how decision-making transitions from one generation to the next on family farms. The problem? As the roles of each on-farm generation evolve, it affects more than just the farm families. It affects the businesses who work with them.
AUGUST 14, 2017
Building trust
When it comes to conducting business, there isn't a more important word or concept than customer trust.
JUNE 20, 2017
Resilience: One key to business success
Our complex agri-food system is dynamic and ever changing. Managers and the teams they lead have to be able to positively adapt to change and adversity.
