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The DecisionNext Finished Goods Index Report | May 2026
Protein Inflation Is Diverging Ahead of Summer As summer grilling season approaches, the DecisionNext Finished Goods Index is showing a growing divide across the protein …
Read ArticleRestructuring Sales Territories
Restructuring Sales Territories During the past 20 years selling software, I’ve seen Territory Division Strategies come and go. When Sales Executives make a …
Read ArticleMining companies’ most important asset - reputation
Benjamin Franklin Readers already know that Mine Insider is fascinated with how mining companies create and destroy shareholder value. Mine Insider has documented the ups …
Read ArticleHow to be a successful investor in mining stocks – a checklist of nine ways that mining companies can make money
Introduction Howard Marks, the well known investor, makes it sound simple: ‘The upshot is simple: to achieve superior investment returns, you have to hold non-consensus …
Read ArticleProphesies, Oracles and omens – why you should ignore single point forecasts
We have to stop using single point projections of the recent past to justify decisions (see the oil prices forecasts below for one illustration). It’s a given that …
Read ArticleTo cut or not to cut?
So which side is right? The question at the heart of the debate is whether mining companies can influence prices for their products. One side sees price as an externality …
Read ArticleWhat is in a Forecast?
Forecasting as a human activity has a long history. In ancient Egypt, priests monitor the level and clarity of Nile River using the Nilometers. From the measurements, …
Read ArticleBringing Analytics to Industry
In my experience, there are three crucial questions that an executive needs to be confident in answering, before committing their organization to analytics transformation …
Read ArticleMonte Carlo: Taming The Unknown
Not all left behind from the WWII was destruction and despair; it gave birth to the first electronic programmable computer. Nicknamed the “Giant Brain”, the Electronic …
Read ArticleCloud Automation and Immutable Infrastructure
Modern DevOps tools and practices allow our team to focus on creating our software products rather than managing the servers on which they run. Back in my system …
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