The background This workshop was originally intended to be delivered interactively at the MobileTECH.Ag conference. Despite switching to digital, we had great participation and a surprisingly interactive experience. We hope you enjoyed it. Thanks to Jeremy Suisted and Andrew Cooke for presenting. Next steps If you enjoyed this video and want to share some of […]
Author: Andrew Cooke
Is this the year you take your agribusiness digital? The world is changing, and as society as a whole reflects on the changes we will need to make, its also a time for business leaders to reflect their goals and strategy. Here’s a question for your business planning during the quiet days at the start […]
Platforms 101 – Cutting Through the Jargon One of the joys of my role at Rezare is the conversations I get to have. Week-to-week, I chat with founders of small start-ups, back-yard inventors through to Product Managers, Business Analysts and senior executives at large corporates.
Digital data in the agri-food supply chain
Established companies and technology start-ups are all racing to create solutions that better manage agricultural data in supply chains. Does this mean radical new transparency for farmers and producers? And have we thought through the implications for data collection, management, and ownership? In this post: What is agricultural data? How rich digital data can benefit […]
Prototyping. Its all the rage in product development because of design thinking, lean, and minimum viable products. But it might not make sense for your agricultural product or service. Here are some reasons why.
Customer Empathy will be well-known to anyone who has heard about design thinking. So too, for that matter, anyone who has attended an Ag Innovations Bootcamp. Customer empathy is fundamental to creating great design that meets people’s needs. So how do you do it? Empathy or sympathy? Often “customer empathy” can sound a bit soft […]
We recently attended and exhibited at EvokeAg, the new agrifood international technology event specifically for the food and farming community hosted by AgriFutures Australia. EvokeAg brought together more than 1100 attendees from across the Australian and wider agriculture and agritech industries, including 100+ attendees from New Zealand and a substantial contingent from Israel. The event […]
Three steps to your agritech product vision
You’re creating the future: a product or service that does not yet exist. How do you ensure your team is on the same page? Do you tell them how they will build it? How it will work? Or do you paint the picture of how it will make people’s lives better? Your investors and partners […]
Things are coming together for the Ag Innovations Bootcamp (5-6 Dec, Mystery creek, Hamilton). We’ve put our heads together with NZ National Fieldays and our partners Amazon Web Services and support from AGMARDT to bring you some great keynote speakers: Jenene Crossan – The brilliant digital entrepreneur behind some of new Zealand’s most recognisable digital […]
Ag Innovations Bootcamp – Early-bird Special
Do you have an idea for what could be the next great agricultural or ag-tech product or service? Looking for ways to reliably convert ideas and concepts into products or services that meet the real needs of the market and your business? Ag Innovations Bootcamp (5-6 December 2018, Hamilton, New Zealand) is a two-day workshop […]
Why are relatively few agritech products achieving adoption at scale when billions of dollars are being invested internationally every year? New start-ups appear almost weekly. And established companies are shifting from small innovations around the edges to major projects that sit at the heart of business plans. Yet for all this activity, few product ideas […]