Operational Transparency

Throughout the ‘80s, ‘90s and early 2000’s, business literature was pointing to operational efficiency. Operating environments should be kept clean and devoid of any sort of distractions from the main operations. Which makes sense. If you’re trying to grow your best...

The Paradox of Choice

Choice. It’s great to have a couple of options, sort through the information, and make the decision that’s going to generate the best outcome. Right? Sure, but the problem often is we don’t know all the information and so are forced to make educated guesses. In...

Introducing Monitor Farm

Putting the FGA Strategic Hedging Model to Work The Factors Total Cost of Production is $620/ha Production is currently estimated at 3.3t/ha (barley) and 1.6t/ha (canola) Other market and confidence factors outlined below The Objectives $680,000 Cashflow by 31st...

When should you outsource?

Competitive advantage theory has been around since the ‘80’s. A simplistic way of defining it is “what can I do better than the competition?” Which has led to a work of specialisation. People doing what they are good at and outsourcing what they aren’t as good at. We...

Acting with Intent. Acting with Strategy

Measuring performance is important in any activity or development, so adequate feedback can be provided. But so many of our business activities are subjective and difficult to measure. Even objective measures should be questioned. In marketing, I like to use three...