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Teaming up with IQinAbox
Together with Jakob Grane, I have joined IQinAbox's newly established Advisory Board. IQinAbox is a startup with state-of-the-art technology, including sensors and advanced statistical modelling to support pig-farmers in significantly improving costs and not least CO2...
Formally on Arviem’s board
After having been on Arviem's Advisory Board for a couple of years, I was asked to join Arviem's board and naturally accepted. Fortunately, the shareholders agreed at the Annual Shareholders meeting (which had been postponed two months due to Covid-19). Arviem's...
Descartes acquires Kontainers
It has just been announced that Descartes has acquired Kontainers. The press release gives the obvious reasons, but I know that the two founders, Graham and Charlie, set out to change the industry, and I honestly don't think there is a better place for Kontainers at...
Good news/bad news for freight-tech
CB Insights has done an analysis of the impact of the outbreak of Covid-19 private funding, which in particular impacts startups. The bad news Unsurprisingly, the bad news is that it is going to go down, and based on experience from previous outbreaks, especially Asia...
Covid-19 provides and opportunity to rethink
Every crisis forces you to rethink how you have historically done things and the outbreak of Covid-19 is from that perspective no different. Stop the bleeding The immediate concern is, of course, to eliminate, or as a minimum reduce, the threat to a manageable level....
WiseTech forcing a reality check for FreightTech
FreightTech has seen a continuous rise over the last 18-24 months beyond what others, e.g. FinTech, have experienced. The front runners have been Flexport (although more forwarder than a pure technology company) and WiseTech. I have discussed their valuations more...
Will e-scooters change micro-mobility as we know it?
I love gadgets, and spend a disproportionate amount of time and money on acquiring new ones, so when the e-scooters I have been arguing with my financial conscience over when to get and try one out. Six months ago I gave into myself and bought the Ninebot by Segway...
Do we need a Chief Digital Officer?
To answer the question I am going to need to pull out two tools from the consultant's toolbox: the cliché quote and the trusted 2x2 matrix. The Quote Every organisation is perfectly designed to get the results they get.Arthur Wayne Jones Arthur Jones is essentially...
The challenges of having data
"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 and the result of a game....