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 | Jul 16, 2019 | Logistics, Transformation
With its latest funding round, Flexport officially entered the unicorn territory and, according to Agnes from Despicable Me, just became “so fluffy” – an opinion shared by many industry insiders. The lead investor, Softbank, may have been grabbing...
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 | Oct 25, 2018 | Transformation
Coops medlemsdemokrati har mange fordele, ikke mindst den loyalitet der skabes lokalt, men der er også ulemper. Skal Coop have succes med deres seneste digitale satsning skal de, ligesom alle andre store virksomheder, revurdere hvorledes de træffer beslutninger på...
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...