• Course Pitch

Welcome to the course "Business Model Case Study - SIM". This course is designed using the podcast made by Agribusiness Academy team with the CEO of SIM, Leontien Hasselman-Plugge. In this course, you’ll learn about SIM’s journey to harness technology in collecting relevant supply chain data, aiming to establish consumer trust in the food products they purchase. They intend to utilize blockchain technology to manage this data with a strong emphasis on ensuring its reliability. Currently SIM has repositioned itself as “Impact buying” broadening their scope of supply chain consultant services to different industries. In this course, You'll get to hear from Leontien Hasselman-Plugge, CEO, about SIM's value proposition, their distribution strategy, the sustainability aspects of the business and the partnerships they're forging.

• Content & Assessment Guidelines
Please review the course outline below to set your expectations related to the content & certificate assessment needs for the course. You can complete the assessment and download Agribusiness Academy completion certificate. You can expect to complete this course and certification assessment in about 3-5 hours. We wish you a lot of success with the course/pathway and very sure that it will help you gain more clarity and execution confidence towards your outcome.

• Course & the Pathway Connection
This course can be pursued independently or as part of “AgriFoodTech's Value" learning & reflection pathway. The pathway is designed to highlight technological advancements within agricultural value chains that can improve decision-making capabilities and increase profitability for the value chain players. The pathway covers various aspects of business model design essential for agrifoodtech innovations to gain adoption and scale within agrifood value chains. You have the option to enroll in this course either as a standalone individual course or as part of the comprehensive "AgriFoodTech's Value" learning pathway and get access to this course alongside 12 other courses. If you choose to enroll in the pathway, you'll have the option to receive an extra certificate upon completing the reflection exercise for the pathway. Enrolling to the pathway also gives you access to our facilitators via the AA Slack channel. You can review and enroll to the full pathway by following this link: https://lms.agribusiness.academy/catalog/index/cat:182

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