Current employees, companies, the academic eco-systems and Governments will have to spend their fair share of efforts in preparing the population to tomorrow’s employability.
What are the consequences on a company’s internal organization?
Flexibility and agility will be the best attributes a company can have to master the transition to the new business models of circular economy.
Very often, the complexity of internal organizations freezes a company and makes it even more difficult to apply change. The complexity usually comes from the organic growth a business faces when adapting to its success and mastering market challenges along the way. Same goes for the company’s internal communication which trades its flexibility for structural / administrative layers.
In this new economy everything is expected move faster thanks to the digitalization of the work environment. Hence, strategies based on stacking up management layers on the internal organization are destined to fail.
Therefore, vertical organizations must transit to more cross-functional work practices in which the decision making processes come closer to the action.
To quote: Martin Geissdoerfer, Sandra Naomi Morioka, Marly Monteiro de Carvalho and Steve Evans in the book
Business models and supply chains for the circular economy :
Circular business models are business models that are closing, narrowing, slowing, intensifying, and dematerializing loops, to minimize the resource inputs into and the waste and emission leakage out of the organizational system. This comprises recycling measures (closing), efficiency improvements (narrowing), use phase extensions (slowing or extending), a more intense use phase (intensifying), and the substitution of product utility by service and software solutions (dematerializing).
Managers become “coaches” instead of decision-makers. The many positive effects are:
Of course, one shall not expect the transition to circular business models is a piece of cake, cultural resistance being one of the difficulties an enterprise may encounter. For work environments to become more fluid such a project has to be well thought with a skilled digitalization partner and especially by including the company’s human capital at the heart of the process.
20 June 2018
With increasing globalization, agriculture as a single industry will end, to become just one part of an integrated value chain. This value chain exits both upstream and downstream, or from production through to processing and sales, in which the whole is now highly increasingly globalized. This poses a huge challenge for small and medium enterprises in this sector and can lead to market share loss.
The world’s population is predicted to rise by 2050, up to 9 billion people. The highest rates of predicted population growth will mostly occur in areas highly reliant on agriculture and have high rates of food insecurity. SMEs in the agro-food industry have an urgent need for affordable and flexible IT solutions. Mainly, in their interest to remain competitive but, when looking at it from the regional/rural economical perspective, to ensure that increased productivity does mean profit for big corporations, only but generate enough growth for their region.
Sita Software is specialized in All-in-One integrated software solutions for Small and Medium Enterprises.
With Azur Traceability, we want to contribute in achieving the goal of food security for all and make sure that people have access to high-quality food to lead healthy lives. We strongly believe that food producers and all the actors in this value chain can grow their business by helping customers make an informed buying decision.
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31 May 2018
Sita Software responds to the consumer need for more clarity in the food supply chain with Azur Traceability. In this effort, we met the Ambassador of the Republic of Singapore to Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, and the European Union, H.E. Mr. Jaya Ratnam on Friday, May 4th, 2018.
15 May 2018
