“You can’t improve what you don’t measure,” Peter Drucker – world-renowned management consultant and author of The Practice of Management Drucker’s wisdom certainly rings true for greenhouse growers. The fast pace of the growing and selling seasons—along with data isolated in different applications and inside someone’s brain—sometimes makes it impossible to access KPIs (key performance…
Here is a scenario: 1,000 calibrachoa cuttings just arrived in your greenhouse. But they’re in really bad shape. What to do? How do you notify your purchasing team so they can buy more? How many cuttings do you already have in inventory? Can you use possible substitutes? Will a different variety be OK? If you…
Matching production to customer demand is perhaps more critical to greenhouse growers than any other industry. Growing and selling seasons are relatively short, and flowers, shrubs, and trees can’t sit on the shelf forever. If you don’t forecast production correctly and match it to customer demand, you either lose out on sales or end up…
As the CEO of a horticulture business, your role goes beyond managing day-to-day operations. You’re tasked with driving growth, setting the strategic vision, and aligning teams to achieve long-term goals. These responsibilities are magnified in an industry as complex and seasonal as horticulture. CEOs need more than instinct or experience to succeed—they need access to…
As a Chief Operating Officer (COO) in the horticulture industry, your role is all about ensuring smooth operations. From managing inventory and labor to navigating unpredictable weather and seasonal demands, your ability to maintain efficiency and agility directly impacts your organization’s success. But achieving operational excellence in such a complex environment requires more than intuition…
For CFOs in the horticulture industry, financial leadership requires more than just balancing budgets. Seasonal revenue cycles, rising labor costs, and unpredictable market conditions demand strategic foresight and adaptability. But without accurate, real-time insights, even the most experienced CFOs can struggle to allocate resources effectively, identify inefficiencies, or anticipate cash flow challenges. The key to…
As a Chief Information Officer (CIO) in the horticulture industry, your role is pivotal. You oversee the technology and data strategies that enable the organization to operate efficiently, scale effectively, and adapt to evolving market conditions. However, the challenges are often significant: fragmented systems, siloed data, and increasing security threats often hinder progress. To meet…
Cannabis product manufacturers face unique challenges when managing processes to extract cannabinoids from plants to make oil-based products for various product types, as well as to process flowers or buds for pre-packaged products. In some respect, cannabis production is similar to other plant manufacturing. But most of the horticulture industry does not fall under any…
As the cannabis industry continues to expand and evolve, we’re starting to recognize certain patterns and traits among those brands that not only rise to the top – but stay there. The most significant of these indicators? Quality. Quality control or QC, may not be the most exciting part of the burgeoning cannabis industry, but…
Background The Milgro Nursery team is proud of its superior quality of potted floral and innovative marketing concepts. Milgro promotes plants and flowers as a lifestyle and is constantly trialing and researching new products to bring to its customers, including big box retailers like Walmart, Kroger, and Trader Joe’s. Milgro has a rich history of…
