How to set up a learning organization for Food Assurance

Introduction

In a rapidly evolving global food landscape, building resilience is crucial. Our Food Safety Excellence expert Ir. Cornelis van Elst, co-authored an insightful article with Carl CJ Unis of Space Space and John Hoffman of the American Institute for Food Defense titled “Building Food System Resilience within a Learning Organization,” published in Food Protection Trends.

The paper explores how food companies can navigate increasing complexity and risks by adopting a ‘learning organization’ framework, enhancing agility and success in protecting consumers and investors.

This publication resonates strongly with the current focus where many research projects are currently being started for food safety, transparency and sustainability. We also see nice funding to develop systems for this. But the system is already there:

With QAssurance and its predecessors, we have been working since 1993 to apply learning organization principles specifically to Food Safety. The concepts discussed in the article, such as integrating operational technology and food safety management from a systems thinking perspective, are core to our philosophy.  

The rise of AI underscores the article’s message, making knowledge management 2.0 a reality. Integrating people and systems to learn together is vital, especially as AI capabilities grow. As the paper highlights, firms slow to adapt to change and mature against risks face significant challenges. As a company, you really have to digitise now; without digitising, you miss the ability of AI to learn and will miss the boat.  

With iMIS Food you are AI Food Safety ready. This platform embodies the principles of a learning organization, enabling Real-time Food Assurance. Within 5 minutes you can start with your own platform to set up a learning organization! iMIS Food offers a fully AI equipped food safety platform.

Dive deeper into building resilience by reading the full article (link below).

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The original article can also be found at the following link: Food Protection Trends July – August 2022

Presentation

The following presentation can guide to in setting up a learning organization for Food Safety.