by Jesper E. Thomsen | Nov 6, 2019 | Business, Digital, Transformation
“Data” is entering just about any discussion these days – including football (known in very few countries as ‘soccer’). Most football clubs have seen Moneyball, and are well aware that you cannot solely base your decisions on what you see...
by Jesper E. Thomsen | Sep 17, 2019 | Business, Digital, Logistics, Transformation
Shipping (and logistics in general) has not been used to Venture Capitalist backed investments. There has been a lot of tax based investments in vessels, containers and other “hard assets”, but these have all been low risk. For “normal”...
by Jesper E. Thomsen | Dec 18, 2018 | Business, Digital, Transformation
The holiday season is a great time to recharge, spend time with the people you should have spent more time with all year, recharge and get inspired. However, breakthrough innovation and inspiration rarely comes from the sources we always use, but rather ones we...
by Jesper E. Thomsen | Nov 13, 2018 | Digital, Logistics
One of the greatest AHA! moments I had when I started to spend time with VCs and PEs some years ago was that they did not look at the path to success the same way I did. In a large corporate we would determine our capability gaps and then, using relatively...
by Jesper E. Thomsen | Aug 15, 2018 | Digital, Logistics
Impressively SwanLeap has been ranked as the (privately owned) company with the highest growth rate in North America by Inc.5000. SwanLeap produces NextGen TMS (“Beyond TMS” as the have tagged it) using AI and real-time analytics to automate the supply...
by Jesper E. Thomsen | Aug 15, 2018 | Digital, Transformation
We get bombarded with articles, interviews and even songs (OK, maybe just one from R.E.M. back in 1987) telling us that “digital” will disrupt everything you do, robots will take over etc.If we look at history, we can firstly safely assume that we have...