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Zedfarms works alongside our clients to anticipate industry disruptions, innovate, apply a unique point of view on snail farming trends and opportunities, and build proven, successful business models. We have worked on more than 600 engagements across the agriculture industry and have consistently produced superior results. We draw on our expertise across industries and capabilities to develop and implement solutions that deliver the best results. Zedfarms has a global network of agribusiness experts, and we work jointly with agricultural companies to address opportunities across an integrated snail farming venture.

Going forward, companies will have to compete in an increasingly complex environment, which includes increasing competition for resources as alternative fuel sources; more environmental pressure on farming techniques; and competing governmental priorities that suppress optimal global yield and trade flows. Zedfarms works alongside snail farms to navigate these and many other pressing issues to achieve sustainable results.

Advanced Analytics

Big Data and advanced analytics promise profound competitive advantages for snail farmers. From our experience only a few African Agricultural organizations master the alchemy of people, tools, data and strategic focus needed. Zedfarms strategy experience and analytical expertise help you build capabilities that snail farmers need—not just to mine data, but to turn it into gold. Our advanced analytical processes involves use of Monte Carlo And Latin Hypercubes to simulate snail farming operations, from cradle to grave.

Zedfarm’s Advanced Analytics helps snail farmers to develop strategies that turn their data assets into a true competitive advantage. Our Advanced Analytics practice is supported by a highly skilled team with advanced expertise in fields ranging from statistics and applied mathematics to computer science, who apply state-of-the-art techniques, tools and technology to ensure that you derive powerful insights from your data.

Customer Strategy & Marketing

Customers are the source of real growth. Zedfarms combines in-depth customer insights with practical expertise in operations and economics to help our snail farmers create sustainable, organic growth in their snail farming business. We do this by helping snail farmers to achieve organic, profitable growth by focusing on three critical building blocks: an outside-in approach that puts customers first, a differentiated customer experience and internal capabilities that ensure you deliver optimal customer interactions at every touchpoint. Our team of industry experts help snail farmers to

1. Understand their customers’ needs and behaviors by developing superior segmentation capabilities, augmented by advanced analytics and testing that gets results. Provide them with great digital experiences at radically lower cost as you transform your marketing function.

2. Break down barriers to innovation and improve ongoing customer-led product development to re-imagine their offerings as an integrated farming suite that delights their customers and meets an expanding array of their needs.

3. Identify quick, targeted customized solutions and strategic, operational improvements that can boost under-performing snail farms.

4. Aligning their marketing and brand strategy with the snail farmers’ overarching business objectives and combine hard metrics with creative logic to build a customer-focused brand strategy that goes far beyond cosmetic brand communications.

5. Provide a great customer experience that earns advocacy through the consistent delivery of positive interactions.

Technological Solutions

Zedfarms understands that digital revolution isn’t just about technology. It’s about how a snail farmers’ customers react to digital information regarding snails. We help snail farmers play offense with innovation and defend them against disruption with a radically new approach to strategy that defines what snail farmers can do with digital technology today and how it will shape a snail farmers’ advantage years from now.

As digital becomes more and more pervasive, the bar is being set ever higher. To compete and win in the digital future, a snail farmer’s company will need to move beyond a project approach and weave digital into every element of the organization—and beyond.

At Zedfarms, we approach digital in this holistic context, helping your snail farming company achieve truly transformative results. We have deep expertise in every facet of digital, from strategy and organizational design to customer impact and scalable execution.

At Zedfarms, we also strive to improve the value that information/digital technology brings to the snail farming business. We achieve this by identifying the resources and capabilities needed to generate lasting results. We also strive to focus a farmers investments on what matters most, ensure the right people and processes are in place, reduce complexity, and be confident that your large-scale projects will meet or exceed expectations.

Performance Improvement

Today’s markets are unforgiving. Investors punish even small earnings misses. Competitors undercut your prices. Zedfarm’s Performance Improvement Practices equips snail farmers to grow earnings and outperform their competition.

From targeted solutions that yield an immediate impact to broad transformation programs that redefine how work gets done, Zedfarms can help snail farmers to take every function within their farms to new levels of performance. Our performance strategies focuses on cost transformation, corporate support, operations and lots more.

From procurement and supply-chain efficiency to a range of core and cutting-edge manufacturing capabilities, we offer a broad range of experts with deep experience in operations. From the C-suite to the research lab to the shop floor to the customer service center, we can help you improve every component of your operations to boost the top and bottom lines.

Crowdfunding

The winners in crowdfunding are both bold and disciplined. We understand that snail farmers might need the financial support of sponsors. Zedfarms provide the technical expertise and bridges the gap between snail farmers and sponsors. Zedfarm’s research shows that active sponsors earn consistently higher shareholder returns than those that stay on the sidelines. And companies that regularly and systematically do the most deals perform best of all.

The question isn’t whether to do deals but how to do them so that they create sustainable value. Zedfarms provide the answers on how to execute successful crowdfunding opportunities. We use crowdfunding as an integral part of our global growth strategy, plan for opportunities long before they arise, and build a repeatable acquisition model honed through frequent, continuous deal making between prospective sponsors and snail farmers.

Organization

Some Agricultural ventures just work. They accomplish what they set out to do, powered by engaged employees with the tools and motivation to get the job done. Yet only 20% of companies are designed to achieve this. Zedfarms help snail farmers to improve their company’s performance and become a better place to work by ensuring that their entire organization can deliver on their strategies.

An effective organization clarifies where and how work gets done. Get that right and the payoff can be significant. Our research finds a 52.3% advantage in total shareholder return, and a notable boost in employee engagement. The secret: decisions. The best performers make better decisions, make them more quickly and execute them more effectively. Our experts can help snail farmers to improve organizational performance from the top to the bottom of the organizational chart.

Operations

How much better, faster or smarter could a snail farmer do what they do? Snail farmers can reinvent their operations to uncover a new competitive edge. Zedfarms helps snail farmers to transform their operations by taking a holistic view that connects operations to strategy, transcends siloes, and focuses on the opportunities that will create the greatest value. From the back office and research lab to the factory floor and across your supply chain, Zedfarms can help snail farmers to develop an unconstrained, end-to-end plan to achieve their full vision.

Our deep bench of experts can work with you to: Transform your supply chain into a strategic weapon. We make this happen by forging a tight linkage with corporate strategy and building the capabilities needed by snail farmers to respond nimbly to shifting market demands and deliver the right product in the right way to meet customer needs. Zedfarms also optimize snail farmers’ snail production footprint by developing a clear strategy and using Industry 4.0 technologies. We also help you reap the benefits of faster processes with lower cost and higher quality using Lean Six Sigma, Agile project management techniques and waterfall approaches.

Sustainability & Corporate Responsibility

The standard rules of business don’t stop when it comes to sustainability and corporate responsibility. Zedfarms helps snail farmers to embed those principles in the core of their operational strategy. This strategy creates sustainability in all snail farming operations.

Sustainability efforts should be anchored in business fundamentals. This helps in demonstrating a clear return on investment for snail farmers and potential sponsors. Zedfarms help snail farmers to develop a sustainability strategy that addresses social, environmental and economic issues; Seize opportunities to make operations more sustainable, particularly for companies in resource-intensive industries; Pursue investment options that account for environmental, social and governance criteria. and organize for success in sustainability, by addressing change management challenges and other potential barriers to results.

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