Strategic planning: how one successful farmer organises and plans his farming business

Farmer Autonomy and the Farming Self

Drawing on interviews in Switzerland and New Zealand, we explore the concept of autonomy as part of a farming self. The farming self encompasses the dialectical relationship of autonomy as both value and tool that help us understand farmers within a wider set of economic, environmental and interpersonal relations. Farmers describe autonomy as a value in three related but slightly different ways...

Strategic Information Planning: Alignment of IT Planning with Business Planning

The lives of the human beings has affected by the information technology in their daytoday lives, because of its progression. The technology has changed vastly, when time passes and so have the chances. The demand of increase in IT/IS has made the top management of the more and more complex and difficult. Strategic information systems planning (SISP) is a real way of emerging and upholding the ...

How to innovate and make successful business

Nowadays, facing the rapidly changing economic and business environment, growing competition from competitors and rising consumer expectations, enterprise which has withstood various tests of changeable situations, “innovation” is the way out amid fierce competition and one of the keys to success. Innovation means implementing new ideas, developing new products and improving existing services. ...

The Ethics of Constrained Choice: How the Industrialization of Agriculture Impacts Farming and Farmer Behavior

The industrialization of agriculture not only alters the ways in which agricultural production occurs, but also impacts the decisions farmers make in important ways. First, constraints created by the economic environment of farming limit what options a farmer has available to him. Second, because of the industrialization of agriculture and the resulting economic pressures it creates for farmers...

Strategic planning: a "how-to" guide.