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Ecosystem

Ecosystem

Outthinker has a robust ecosystem of individuals and organizations that exemplify the Outthinker spirit, share common values, and are leading practitioners and solution-providers in their respective areas of expertise. Together, Outthinker and its ecosystem partners offer world-class customized solutions to achieve ambitious goals and solve the most complex challenges facing organizations today.

The World Innovation Network (TWIN) is a connective where global leaders in business, government, arts, and philanthropy  build trusted relationships, create new partnerships and invent the future. 

Coplex designs and manages corporate Startup Studios. They work with corporates, founders and investors to build new high-impact ventures that span a variety of digital business models across all industry verticals.

The world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking, and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Every two years, Thinkers50 creates a ranking and awards for distinguished achievement across different management categories. 

The business ecosystem alliance connects insights and global best practice in business ecosystems with the world by organizing forums for the sharing of knowledge, learning and, experience on the subject of ecosystems.  

A growth strategy firm that helps leading organizations develop and execute strategies that drive growth and create competitive advantages. They also have impressive software options to help manage the innovation lifecycle process.  

A community of corporate innovators that convenes at large in-person conferences and through weekly virtual sessions. If you have innovation in your title and are looking for a place to learn and connect, we recommend Innov8rs.  

A growth and innovation firm that specializes in helping companies use open and collaborative models of innovation beginning with filling your innovation pipeline through incubation.  

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Leverage
Point		“8Ps” of StrategyOpportunity
for Disruption		Recommended Leverage Points
Position- The farmers, individual and corporate, that you are targeting.

- The need of the agricultural industry that you seek to fill.
3- What technologies do you control that can help you tap into market
segments that you previously thought unreachable?

- What are the potential business alliances you could think about with key players in the segment to serve your customers with integrated solutions? (Serving customers with more integrated solutions example: serving farmers with fertilizers, crop protection and other).
Product- The products you offer, and the characteristics that affect their value to customers.

- The technology you develop for producing those products.		8- What moves are your organization taking to implement Big Data and analytics to your operations? What IoT and blockchain applications can you use?

- What tools and technology could you utilize or develop to improve food quality, traceability, and
production?

- How can you develop a more sustainable production model to accommodate constraints on arable
land?

- What is the future business model needed to serve new differentiated products to your customers?
Promotion- How you connect with farmers and consumers across a variety of locations and industries.
- How to make consumers, producers, and other stakeholders aware of your products and services.		8- How are you connecting your product with individual and corporate farms who could utilize it?
- How could you anticipate market and customer needs to make customers interested in accessing your differentiated products?
PriceHow consumers and other members of the agricultural supply chain pay for access to agricultural products.7- What elements of value comprise your pricing? How do each of those elements satisfy the varying needs of your customers?
Placement- How food products reach consumers. How the technologies, data, and services reach stakeholders in the supply chain.9- What new paths might exist for helping consumers access the food they desire?
- How are you adapting your operations and supply chain to accommodate consumers’ desire for proximity to the food they eat?
- How could you anticipate customer expectation to make products more
accessible to customers/agile supply chain?
- Have you considered urbanization as a part of your growth strategy?
Physical
Experience		- How your food satisfies the needs and desires of your customer.
- How the services you provide to agribusiness fulfill their needs.		9- Where does your food rate on a taste, appearance, and freshness
scale?
- Could the services you provide to companies and farms in the agriculture industry be expanded to meet more needs?
- What senses does your food affect besides hunger? How does your
customer extract value from your food in addition to consumption?
Processes- Guiding your food production operations in a manner cognizant of social pressure.8- How can you manage the supply chain differently to improve traceability and reduce waste?
- How can you innovate systems in production, processing, storing, shipping, retailing, etc.?
- What are new capabilities to increase sustainability (impact on the environment, or ESG) components?
People- The choices you make regarding hiring, organizing, and incentivizing your people and your culture.- How are you leveraging the agricultural experience of your staff bottom-up to achieve your vision?
- How do you anticipate new organizational capabilities needed to perform your future strategy (innovation, exponential technologies needed, agile customer relationship, innovative supply chain)?
- How do you manage your talents to assure suitable development with exposure in the agrifood main challenges/allowing a more sustainable view of the opportunities/cross-sectors?
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