Food traceability and safety is an up and coming trend. With the slow food, organic, and natural movements more consumers are wanting to know where their food is coming from. Food producers also are making food traceability a trend because each producer wants to know who they can point fingers at when a customer claims that they have become sick from a producer’s food. For most producers, traceability is just one element of any supply-management or quality/safety control system. Tracking an apple from the tree to your mouth is something that each producer needs to know. They need to know where that apple was to make sure that the apple did not go anywhere it shouldn’t have been. So, what exactly is food traceability? How does it work, and what can it accomplish with regards to safety? What is traceability and how does it pertain to our food system? The Continue reading
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How To Improve Your Finances in 2024
Improving your finances is a continuous journey, one that requires dedication, strategic planning, and a clear understanding of your current financial health. In 2024, it’s no different. With a new set of challenges and opportunities, individuals are seeking ways to enhance their fiscal stability and growth. Ensuring you’re on the right path to financial wellness is key to achieving your life goals. Keep reading to uncover insightful ways to strengthen your financial footing in the year ahead. Leveraging Technology and Apps for Financial Management and Savings In this digital age, using technology for financial management has never been more accessible or efficient. Personal finance apps can connect with your bank accounts to give you real-time visibility over your spending and savings. This convenience helps maintain budget discipline and ensures swift adaptations to any fiscal fluctuations. Automatic savings apps take the guesswork out of setting money aside. They can round up Continue reading
Running out of money? 5 ways to save your business!
As a business owner, money is an important part! Not only do you need to pay your employees, cover all your costs, but of course you want to have some money for yourself too. Especially with sudden extra expenses, having enough money can be a big problem. Long term, the lack of money could even ruin the dream of having your own business; that’s why we want to share with you some tips and tricks on how to earn extra money for your business. Always expect extra expenses! Especially for someone who is just starting out with their business, money can be tight. There is no room for extra expenses! Unfortunately, emergencies can happen, or you suddenly have costs that you didn’t calculate into your budget, but what now? Just throw away your dream and all the invested resources? No, we have some essential and valuable tips and tricks for Continue reading
How Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship are Related?
There is an important relationship between creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship. In fact, creativity is the ability to develop new ideas and to discover new ways of looking at problems and opportunities; innovation is the ability to apply creative solutions to those problems and opportunities in order to enhance people’s lives or to enrich society. Entrepreneurship is a result of a disciplined and systematic process of applying creativity and innovations to needs and opportunities in the marketplace. Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. All products or services are the combination of three factors: nature raw materials, labor (physical and mental) and capital. Entrepreneurs, as innovators, are people who create new combinations of these factors and then present to the market for assessment by consumers. Porter (1985) argues that, while successful businesses will Continue reading