Innovations and Lean Six Sigma implementation in industrial growing of commodity crops

March 15, 2018
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Innovations and LSS
implementation in industrial
growing of commodity crops

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What associations do we have with Innovations?
Source: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/jsc2012e054285.jpg
Sergiy Bulavin. Presentation on the discussion organized by Ukrainian Food Valley.
Kyiv-Mohyla Business School. March 15, 2018.

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Innovations in Agriculture
 Hackathons
 Hubs
 Challenges
 Accelerators
 UNITs
 …
 Almost every agricultural company states innovation to be the main aim
 Almost every IT company considers agricultural sector for launching new
products

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Why are innovations in agriculture important now?
Drop in commodities prices after 2012 showed it is vitally
important to search for new additional efficiency
Development of agricultural science
Development of technologies. What will be the next step after
implementation of the precision farming?

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Innovations in agriculture
Types of agricultural innovators:
1. “Fashionistas”.
Top-managers and owners of agricultural companies follow the
general “innovation” fashion and don’t raise questions with
regard to economic impact and efficiency.

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Types of agricultural innovators :
2. “Lazy”.
They try to buy «an efficiency pill» which will make an
agricultural company efficient without big efforts.

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3. “Chaotic integrators”.
They try to integrate IT and VC businesses into agricultural
business.

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Types of agricultural innovators:
4. “Ignorant”.
They consider implementation of technologies already used for
a long time in the world an innovation.

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5. “Inventors of bicycles”.
They work over inventing technologies, which have been used
for a long time in the world.

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6. “Children, who didn't play enough with toys in childhood”.
They buy and boast about “technical toys” and do not ask
questions about economic impact and efficiency.

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7. “Boasters about plans”.
They boast not about actual achievements, but about plans.

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8. “Those who automatize chaos and losses”.
Automatization of chaos and losses leads to “automatized
chaos and losses”.

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9. “Sellers of wonders”.
They try to pass off usual agents as innovative.
They try to use innovations as a leverage when selling crop
protection agents and nutrition systems: «If you are an
innovative company, you have to buy our product for 100% of
your fields without previous testing. If you do not want to do it
without testing, you are not an innovative company».

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10. True innovators.

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“Innovation can be defined simply as a "new idea, device or method“… Such
innovation takes place through the provision of more-effective products,
processes, services, technologies, or business models that are made available
to markets, governments and society”.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation
Directions of innovations:
- Technics
- Technology
- Organization of work
- Management

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LSS implementation
Why is LSS implementation in Industrial-Scale Crop Producer an
innovation?
Why does LSS implementation in Industrial-Scale Crop Producer
have sense?
What does LSS implementation in Industrial-Scale Crop Producer
give?

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LSS implementation
Critical factors:
1. Support and understanding from owners, Board of Directors
and top-management.

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LSS implementation
Critical factors:
2. LSS has to become a part of corporate culture, one of the
Core Values.

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LSS implementation
Critical factors:
3. A significant part of staff has to be involved in training and
participation in projects.

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LSS implementation
Critical factors:
4. Top-managers have to participate in training and projects.

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LSS implementation
Critical factors:
5. There has to be a plan on belts’ structuring – who has to be
a certain belt.

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LSS implementation
Crucial factors:
6. Belts’ structuring has to be written in the terms of Job
Descriptions.

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LSS implementation
Crucial factors:
7. A remuneration should be set for a successful closure of a
project.

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LSS implementation
Crucial factors:
8. Projects’ closure and remuneration receiving by the project
participants have to be maximum public within the company.

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LSS implementation
Critical factors:
9. All belts have to have access to:
• List of employees, who received the belts,
• List and current state of projects,
• Documents on each project.
Possible exception: a strictly confidential information.

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Q & A
Sergiy Bulavin
sbulavin@agrogeneration.com
+38 050 331 34 50
www.linkedin.com/in/sergiybulavin/

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