Archive: Agriculture
Growth Strategy
Project: This project focused on a strategic growth plan for the company to focus operations and expand revenue.
Business Model Analysis Project
Project: SNV Ecuador had conducted extensive research in order to identify which production chains involved the greatest number of small rural producers, corresponded to the poorest areas in the country,…
Business Growth Strategy Project
Project: POET was seeking to expand its biorefining expertise from producing renewable biofuel from corn and stover to the production of biochemicals using corn and biomass as feedstocks. The conversion…
Sales Plan Assessment Project
Project: In 2011, New Holland launched a biofuels initiative in partnership with Growth Energy (www.growthenergy.org) that focused on the growth of the ethanol market. Specifically, the partnership was formed to…
Business Growth Strategy Project
Project: A significant challenge facing the organic food industry was the need for increased supply of organic inputs because of the time it took for a farmer to transition a…
Technology Commercialization Project
Project: The SGE Immersion team explored the commercialization opportunity for scaling a fly larvae business that would reduce manure mass while providing feed for the livestock and aquaculture industries by…
Strategic Business Plan Project
Project: The company’s CEO had directly mandated that the company shift from simply recognizing the importance of sustainability to actively pursuing projects that align with a strategy and that drive…
New Business Opportunity Assessment
Project: Rapid economic growth in China, India, and S.E. Asia had been pulling a great deal of the labor traditionally engaged in agriculture into other, often more urban, opportunities. Because…
Strategic Market Analysis
Project: Emerson’s Grind2Energy™ project was taking steps to help divert food waste from landfills by leveraging InSinkErator’s food disposer technology to turn food waste into renewable energy through anaerobic digestion…
Business Opportunity Assessment
Project: Local demand for fuel in El Nido had been leading to increased illegal harvesting of the mangrove forests, essential breeding habitats for fisheries upon which the local population depend…