5 Difficult Business Issues Where Collective Intelligence Can Play An Outstanding Role.

 

 The collective intelligence of crowds is increasingly becoming a tool for solving various issues for many companies and organizations. However, these are often very specific and secondary tasks. More positively, at least three inherent factors give collective intelligence truly enormous potential for solving the most important and complicated business issues. 

 Collective intelligence’s power sources.

 1)Diversity It is impossible to foresee in advance what kind of life or professional experience, what features of people’s thinking and mentality, will be useful in solving a particular non-standard task. Non-standard tasks are so called because there is no pre-known list of standard competencies with which they can be solved. Sometimes it seems to a company that in order to solve its issue, it needs people with the competencies of perhaps a lawyer or an architect (because this was the case with previous tasks). However, it could turn out that a veterinarian or an art critic will be able to provide a solution. The more diverse the crowd, the more chances of success through using collective crowd intelligence.

2) Resource sharing. Putting in fractions of resources to acquire a product, properties or business stocks. Starting a venture in agribusiness with zero capital, crowd cow is the model. 

3) Scaling and expansion Sometimes it is necessary to find new categories of consumers or new sales markets for the goods or services produced by a company. A crowd consisting of people of different nationalities, ages and professions will be able to deliver various options for solving this task in the best way.

Agribusiness: creating innovative products using S.C.A.M.P.E.R.

What is S.C.A.M.P.E.R? This is a creativity tool employed when brainstorming on new product ideas or improving on current products and services. S.C.A.M.P.E.R is an acronym for

 

  S. substitute: what can you change in the product or resources now? 

                       What other product or process could you use? 

                        What rules could you substitute? 

                       can the product be used somewhere else? 

                           can the product be a substitute for something else? 

 C. Combine: what will happen if you combine this product with something else? 

                         what can you combine to maximize the uses of the product? 

 A. Adapt :How to adapt or adjust product to serve another purpose.

 M.Modify : What can you add to product to change the customer experience and create more value. 

 P.Put to another use: create a new way to use product. 

 E. Eliminate:Change some aspects of products, eliminate features not customer centric. 

 R.Reverse:what will happen if you changed the process,how can you re-organize the process or product? 

 This tool is what birthed the Garri revolution. 

1) Substituted garri with corn and produced Cassava flakes. 

2) Combined garri with other ingredients to make bread, cakes and chin-chin. 

3)Adapt: fortifying yellow garri to make extraordinary products.

 4)Modify:packaging garri with peanuts,sugar and milk= Garri on the go! into handy packs for export purposes. 

5)Put to another use: garri puff-puff, garri akara.

 6) Eliminate the notion that you can only drink garri and make eba.

 7)Reverse, reorganize the garri production cycle.

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FrieslandCampina builds mobile yogurt factory for Nigeria.

 

FrieslandCampina builds mobile yogurt factory for Nigeria

FrieslandCampina has built a mobile yogurt plant in Nigeria.

E-Livestock Global Launch Mastercard Blockchain-Based Solution to Bring Visibility to the Cattle Industry in Zimbabwe.

 

E-Livestock Global today launched a first-of-its kind solution powered by Mastercard’s blockchain-based Provenance solution, empowering Zimbabwean farmers to prove the origin and health records of their cattle, while reducing risks to buyers. 

 A first in the Middle East and Africa, the solution brings new hope to the country’s agricultural sector after an outbreak of tick-borne disease in 2018 led to the death of 50,000 cattle. 

The lack of a traceability system has seen Zimbabwe unable to export beef to lucrative markets in Europe and the Middle East in recent years, reducing export earnings from beef, which are important to the country’s economy. 

 The E-Livestock Global solution brings end-to-end visibility to the cattle supply chain. Commercial farmers and dipping officers tag each head of cattle with a unique, ultra-high frequency RFID tag – as mandated by the Ministry of Agriculture – and register it and its owner onto the solution. Each time the animal gets dipped, vaccinated or receives medical treatment, the tag records the event onto the traceability system.

AgTech value depends on data.

 

AgTech is best understood simply as the intersection between agriculture and technology. It's the application and coming together on farm of digital software, like tools for analysing imagery, with digital hardware, like drones. AgTech also includes products and services enabled by technology along the agriculture value chain, from "fintech" or financial technology, through to logistics and to the consumer. The breadth of scope in AgTech is only matched by its potential.

World food prices reach highest level in more than a decade, says FAO

The FAO Food Price Index, which tracks the international prices of a basket of food commodities, is up 3.9 per cent from September, rising for a third consecutive month. 

Feeding the world population is also responsible for about a third of global greenhouse gas emissions, making it a priority in the fight against climate change. 

 The report, Renewable energy for agri-food systems —Towards the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement, shares several examples of how that can be accomplished. Solar irrigation, for example, can improve access to water, enabling multiple cropping cycles and increasing resilience to changing rainfall patterns.

 In India, the use of solar irrigation pumps has raised farmers’ incomes by at least 50 per cent compared to when rain was the only option. 

In Rwanda, smallholder farmers’ yields have grown by about a third. In a video message, FAO Director-General, Qu Dongyu, argued that the report "shows that there are many opportunities to implement renewable energy solutions across agri-food systems."