Your Course of Study
Growing your business in today’s complex agribusiness landscape requires that you carefully balance risk and opportunity. No matter what segment of the industry you work in, the Agribusiness Seminar can help you achieve your business goals and lead more effectively through a better understanding of today’s top issues as well as those that will shape the industry tomorrow.
The 2012 seminar helps you prepare both immediate and long-term strategies against a backdrop of global market shifts, economic volatility, environmental change, and population growth. Through a lively exchange of ideas that will inspire and reenergize you, the seminar explores potentially game-changing industry trends, fundamental obstacles to success, and new management approaches. During the course of this four-day program, you will examine a breadth of topics, including:
Responding to Geographic Market Evolution
- Understanding how the center of agribusiness is moving and how to prepare your company for change
- Moving successfully from the position of a regional player to that of a global leader
- Shifting strategies in response to new global and local competitors
- Preparing for price changes and other challenges that arise as demand moves geographically
- Exploring new opportunities for acquisition and partnership in different regions
- Building a management team with the skills needed for a changing market
- Examining the impact of changing trade policies around the world
Expanding the Food Supply
- Responding to increasing demand for food and fuel
- Reducing waste at all steps in the food supply system—from production to retail
- Focusing strategies on long-term sustainability and supply security
- Using low-tech methods to meet demand—from aquaculture to grass-based biofuel
Building a Customer-Focused Supply Chain
- Aligning a supply chain with a brand promise
- Incorporating customer-centered improvements throughout the supply chain
- Addressing the consumer trend for healthy eating, food safety, and sustainability—while maintaining your profit margin
- Strengthening collaboration within a supply chain
- Developing innovative strategies to address gaps in the supply chain
The 2012 seminar features a new set of agribusiness-specific cases in which faculty examine the industry’s innovation leaders—companies that are introducing bold new business models, setting new benchmarks for success, and embracing new thinking about industry challenges. A partial listing of cases includes:
- ABF (UK)
- Brasil Foods (Brazil)
- Domino's (USA)
- Feed America Now–FAN (USA)
- Fonterra (New Zealand)
- HEB (USA)
- Jain Irrigation (India)
- K&N's (Pakistan)
- Marine Harvest (Norway)
- Sykue (Brazil)
"To my knowledge, this is the only high-level agribusiness seminar worldwide. It has broadened my vision on global food supply development, has inspired my thinking on agribusiness matters within my company, and has been a building block in my struggle to find balance between operations and strategy."
Philip Smits [Chief Executive Officer], The Greenery B.V., The Netherlands