Transformation is one of the new buzzwords around business, however at Cultivate, we have been helping businesses transform their legacy strategies, processes, go to market channels, and digital systems for decades. Designing and implementing sustainable transformation solutions is not only something we do, but something we excel in.
Executives and senior leaders considering transforming their businesses often have many questions. New technology breakthroughs, shifting commodity prices, changing market conditions, exceeding customer expectations, and increased regulatory requirements are just a few of the ever evolving and challenging components within agriculture industry we live in today that these professionals must contend with. In short, disruption is happening faster than ever within the industry and businesses must keep pace with it if they are to succeed through the mounting pressures of feeding the global population.
Delivering “better, faster, and cheaper” results has long been at the core of what most transformation programs look to achieve. The challenge in today’s environment is that those are no longer enough. Through the digitization of many of the tools and technologies on the farm, mounting pressures on commodity prices, more advanced genetics and genome sequencing technologies, increasing customer expectations, and supply chain pressures, organizational leaders have enormous pressures on them to not only deliver their products, but do so in a manner that goes beyond the “better, faster, cheaper” approach. As a result, many organizations are being forced to produce stronger financial results but are also facing the enormous pressures of rebuilding and remaking who they are as an organization.
Let’s face it, doing the “better, faster, cheaper” is hard enough, but add the increasing demands of the industry coupled with the pressure to change what the company is and what it does, and leaders are often left with more on their plates than they can handle. Successfully transforming an organization, or an aspect of an organization, requires spotting opportunities in the inflection or pivot points, taking purposeful action to seize them, and the ability to implement the changes in a manner that inspires the people within the organization to surround and support the change.
At Cultivate, our professionals have deep experience not only within the agriculture industry and across a variety of verticals (seed, veg, T&O, chemicals, biologicals, AgTech, etc.) within the industry, but also functions within the business (finance, organizational design, digital and technology, HR, operations, supply chain, marketing, and sales to name a few). Our leaders can help yours go “all-in” on transformations that focus your organization’s performance, portfolio, digital technologies, and more which generates positive sustainable and lasting change to help differentiate your organization, people, and products within the global industry.
We partner with our clients to transform pieces of their organization, or their organization as a whole by understanding their full potential and then creating mechanisms and levers to achieve their goals. With many of our clients operating their business similar to many farmer growers where they only have one chance per season to leave an impact, we recognize and are prepared to ensure that every transformation project we engage on delivers success and the intended ROI.