A new food trend rarely starts in a laboratory. It starts on a smartphone, on social media feeds or in in product reviews. A flavour gains attention, spreads across platforms, and sometimes disappears again before a traditional food R&D process has even reached its first prototype. In an industry built around multi-year development cycles, this…
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The risks of industrie 4.0
Industry 4.0 stands for connected machines, automated processes, and data-driven decisions. These technologies promise higher efficiency and competitiveness. But they also create a serious risk: if digital systems are not protected properly, advanced manufacturing can fail completely. In technology-based companies, data is a core asset. This includes customer and supplier data, production parameters, formulations, financial…
The Death of the Business Plan (As We Knew It): Crafting Strategy in the Era of Degenerative Volatility
There is a peculiar cruelty in asking entrepreneurs and investors to produce five-year business plans while the civilisational scaffolding beneath us buckles and groans. Yet this is precisely what we continue to do—spreadsheets extending confidently into 2030, IRR calculations dancing obliviously over tectonic fractures, SWOT analyses treating systemic collapse as a line-item “threat” to be…
Who Decides What Gets Grown? Farmers or Algorithms?
Who’s really in charge of what ends up growing in our fields, the farmer with decades of know-how, or an algorithm crunching data in the cloud? This provocative question is no longer science fiction. It’s a real debate unfolding as AI-driven supply chain forecasting starts acting like a new form of farm governance. When AI…
When Algorithms Set the Menu: “Optimization” in Food Is an Ethical Choice
Imagine you’re scrolling a grocery app after a long day. You’re not making a grand decision about the food system. You’re just trying to get dinner sorted. And yet, in that moment, a lot is being decided around you. What appears first. What’s “recommended.” What’s discounted. What’s “out of stock.” What costs a little more…
Speed, Sustainability, and the Smart P&L: The Connected Future of High-Volume Foodservice
From pre-order apps to robotic fryers—how integrating the full tech stack is revolutionizing Roadside, Travel Retail, and QSRs. In the high-velocity worlds of Roadside “Foodvenience,” Travel Retail, and Quick Service Restaurants (QSR), the customer mission is distinct: speed is currency. Whether it’s a commuter grabbing a coffee at a highway stop or a family ordering…
From Transformation to Regeneration: Why Leadership Must Continue Evolving
Transformational leadership has long been celebrated as the antidote to stagnation. In a world defined by disruption, leaders are expected to innovate, adapt, and guide organizations through change. One compelling articulation of this logic comes from Tilo Hühn’s work on transformational leadership, which frames leadership as the bridge between exploitation and exploration—between what already works…
Just-in-Time in the Supermarket: How Predictive Analytics Cuts Food Waste and Logistics Costs
Picture this: strawberries are sold out in the morning — yet two crates end up in markdown or the waste bin at another store that same evening. Both things can happen inside the same retail network, in the same week, sometimes even on the same day. The root cause is rarely “bad execution.” Most of…
The role of AI-driven shelf-life prediction systems in reducing food waste
Food waste is one of the great inefficiencies of our food system: roughly one-fifth of food available to consumers is wasted at household, retail and food-service levels, accounting for a sizeable share of global greenhouse-gas emissions and lost value along the supply chain (UNFCCC 2024). Cutting that waste requires better decisions about what to keep,…
A Digital Assistant for Community-Supported Agriculture
Freeing Time for Fieldwork and Community Solidarity-based Agriculture (Solawi) is built on trust, transparency, and shared responsibility. Producers and consumers jointly negotiate needs and contributions, and prices are meant to cover real agricultural costs rather than follow market logic. For many, the appeal of Solawi lies in collective workdays in the fields — reconnecting with…
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