Data science key to Monsanto improving its supply chain

Monsanto CIO Jim Swanson has outlined five key elements of Monsanto’s digital transformation: customer centricity, internal business process disruption, technology and automation, data and decision science, and leadership and change management.He views all of those facets as integral to breaking through the "clay layer" of mid-level employees, present in every organization, who may resist short-term changes in spite of long-term gain — the rank-and-file who can either inhibit di