{"id":434682,"date":"2021-05-20T08:14:38","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T15:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=wherenext&p=434682"},"modified":"2024-11-25T13:44:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T21:44:55","slug":"it-gis-collaboration-at-iowa-select-farms","status":"publish","type":"wherenext","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/publications\/wherenext\/it-gis-collaboration-at-iowa-select-farms","title":{"rendered":"How One Company Overcame the Gap between IT and Business Users"},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","castos_file_data":"","podmotor_file_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[369792,1031,417922],"tags":[],"department":[476792],"wherenext-category":[],"industry":[],"class_list":["post-434682","wherenext","type-wherenext","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-location-intelligence","category-natural-resources","category-precision-agriculture","department-cxo-priorities"],"acf":{"short_description":"The nation\u2019s fourth-largest pork producer relied on strong business\u2013IT collaboration to implement a precision-agriculture app.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"It\u2019s a tale as old as punch cards, and despite receiving coverage in publications as prominent as the MIT Sloan Management Review<\/em><\/a> and Harvard Business Review<\/em><\/a>, the schism between information technology (IT) and business managers persists. Business managers often request IT\u2019s help creating apps and reports for internal teams, partners, and customers. IT, with its focus on security and compliance, approaches the work cautiously, not with the pace business users expect. Both camps say they sometimes speak different languages, and often misunderstand each other\u2019s needs and constraints."},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Right","content":"Article snapshot:<\/strong> Conventional wisdom holds that the IT department and business users don\u2019t see eye to eye. At Iowa Select Farms, those teams came together to create an innovative precision agriculture app\u2014and, in the process, a blueprint that industries far from the farm might follow. Here, WhereNext<\/em> explores the people, processes, and relationships that helped a company defy convention.","snippet":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"But just when senseless bureaucratic battles seemed impossible to avoid, a leading pork producer in Iowa has found a way through the morass.\r\n\r\nIn early 2019, a business team at Iowa Select Farms sought IT\u2019s help leveraging a geographic information system (GIS)<\/a> to create more precise, efficient, and environmentally responsible farming.\r\n\r\nYet even with a cooperative IT department, colleagues faced a thorny challenge: Everyone involved had grown up around farming, but they all had to learn each other\u2019s language.\r\n\r\nUltimately it led to a success story with surprising lessons for any business\u2014not the least of which was that innovation isn\u2019t confined to the Fortune 500.\r\n

The Need for a Mobile App to Keep the Company Growing<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nIowa Select Farms needed an app powered by GIS for farmers who use the by-product of hog farming to fertilize thousands of acres of cropland in precise and environmentally responsible<\/a> ways. Hog manure is a highly valuable organic fertilizer that improves soil health, increases the carbon storing capacity of soil, and reduces erosion and runoff.\r\n\r\nThe fourth-largest pork producer in the US, Iowa Select Farms\u2019 network includes 800 hog farms across 50 Iowa counties, many run by independent farmers and landowners. The company sells 5 million hogs a year that grow to marketable size in feeding barns around the state\u2014contributing to a $20 billion US industry. The animals\u2019 manure is collected in various storage structures, including below-ground, environmentally controlled concrete containment facilities.\r\n\r\nA group of about 100 applicator companies use manure application equipment to transfer the by-product to the fields\u2014a process meant to honor environmental regulations while maximizing crop yield. Knowing where to apply fertilizer and where not to demands geographic precision. With paper-based maps stored in three-ring binders, the contractors who drove the tractors weren\u2019t as efficient as they could be.\r\n\r\nAs part of its commitment to continuous improvement, Iowa Select Farms wanted an app that was simple enough for the equipment operator to read on a cell phone in the field.\r\n\r\nAs the Iowa Select Farms teams set out to create a mobile app, they found huge amounts of data to manage, strict timetables to hit, and stringent regulations to follow."},{"acf_fc_layout":"quote","image":434662,"text":"There was not a lot of time to debate whether one part of the company could access information from IT, or if the new app was important to the business. Both sides saw its value from the start. ","author_name":"","author_profession_organization":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

A Look Inside Business<\/strong>\u2013IT Collaboration <\/strong><\/h3>\r\nNick Johansen is the environmental services manager and GIS coordinator for Iowa Select Farms, and also the business user who asked IT to develop the app. At the beginning of the process, he and the IT team were pretty far apart. \u201cWe both had a lot to learn, on either side, about what was actually needed, what the reality was, so we both [could] get to that baseline [where we say,] \u2018OK, now we both understand where we are. We know where we want to go. Now let's solve the problems.\u2019\u201d\r\n\r\nThey turned to GIS to analyze how much fertilizer to apply to which portions of the fields in accordance with environmental regulations\u2014a form of location intelligence pivotal to smart agriculture<\/a>."},{"acf_fc_layout":"form","form_type":"aside","form_position":"Right","form_title":"THE ESRI BRIEF","form_desc":"A biweekly email connecting senior executives and business leaders with thought-provoking articles on location intelligence and critical technology trends.","form_button_label":"Sign up now","form_content":"https:\/\/go.pardot.com\/l\/82202\/2017-10-12\/jw1bmb","form_tag":"low-commitment-form\/sign-up-form"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"The effort to create an easy-to-use app for drivers of manure application rigs may not represent the most glamorous part of the business world, but it is vital to the state\u2019s crops and its conservation efforts, which in turn are key to providing food for humans and feed for hogs. And the experience holds lessons for any company that wants to deliver digital innovation to partners and needs IT and business teams to cooperate to make that happen.\r\n\r\nAt times, the teams involved in building and testing the app\u2014all Iowans, all with at least some farming background\u2014wondered if they would find common ground between the business-speak on one side and IT-speak on the other.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe had a fair amount of meetings where we were talking our language and they were talking their language, and [we] got out of the meeting and it's like, \u2018You don't get it,\u2019\u201d says Keith Kratchmer, director of nutrient management and compliance, and Johansen\u2019s boss.\r\n\r\nStill, when he and Johansen first sat down with IT, they were surprised by the excitement of the developers.\r\n\r\nIT director Carl Vogel was surprised, too. \u201cThe developer I had tasked with the project was really passionate about GIS data. Loved it. . . . Nick, on the other hand, also loves that, and he also is really passionate about just working with farmers, working in agriculture.\u201d\r\n\r\nShared enthusiasm set a foundation, but the Iowa Select Farms teams would need much more to build what would become the aptly named Pumper Portal. It would require focused discussions and, sometimes, faith that it would work out.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe dynamic that we\u2019ve built, the rapport we\u2019ve built, is that we both knew what the goal was, and we knew how it was going to get done,\u201d Johansen says. \u201cWe had to work on it. . . . We all had no idea how long this was going to take, especially on our end, the user end. We expected [IT] to sprinkle the pixie dust on it and make it happen.\u201d\r\n\r\nVogel, who had to manage expectations about pixie dust, says those conversations with Johansen and Kratchmer were productive. \u201cWe had a good mix of professionals who were all focused on making something useful for our end user. Everybody involved kept a professional attitude, and that helped us meet our goals.\u201d"},{"acf_fc_layout":"quote","image":434672,"text":"Iowa Select Farms\u2019 experience holds lessons for any company that wants to deliver digital innovation to partners and needs IT and business teams to cooperate to make that happen.","author_name":"","author_profession_organization":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Fertile Ground for Success<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nManure is an important part of the hog farming economy\u2014and the soybean and corn cultivation that often takes place on hog farms.\r\n\r\nKratchmer\u2019s and Johansen\u2019s nutrient management group oversees the effective and environmentally appropriate management of animal manure, and they wanted to make the process more sustainable and efficient for 100 or so contractor companies that service farms across the state.\r\n\r\nAs Iowa Select Farms<\/a> says on its website: \u201cWe\u2019re proud to be a sustainable food system by providing our neighboring crop farmers with manure to replenish their soil\u2019s fertility. Full of essential crop nutrients such as nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus, manure brings pork production full circle by feeding the crops that feed the pigs.\u201d\r\n\r\nOn the farm, operators of application equipment collect manure from the containment structures under the hog enclosure, then inject the nutrients into the ground, allowing them to diffuse through the soil and fertilize crops. The Pumper Portal app created by the IT and nutrient management teams guides each step of the process\u2014a form of precision agriculture that delivers better crop yields while improving soil health.\r\n\r\nThe app allows the applicator and the Iowa Select Farms team to access data on recent soil analysis, which determines exactly how much fertilizer should be applied to specific zones of the field. The app is aware of topographical features that require special care to ensure minimal runoff and maximum nutrient value to the crop. The engine behind that precision is GIS technology, which tracks ever-changing conditions on a farm just as it tracks weather moving across the country<\/a>, anonymous shoppers moving through a city<\/a>, or planes in the sky<\/a>.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe Pumper Portal really just allowed us to make our data sharing with our applicators more streamlined,\u201d Johansen says. \u201cThe applicators can see it on their phones, tablets, computers\u2014however they need to, from wherever. It's very interactive. We serve up a sample of our GIS so they see the field boundaries as we have them mapped.\u201d\r\n\r\nEveryone who worked on the app knew that no matter how sophisticated the inner workings of the system, the user interface needed to be straightforward. Throughout the process, Kratchmer repeatedly asked himself: \u201cAre we going to make it simple enough that people will use it?\u201d\r\n

Respecting the Other Person\u2019s Professional Language<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nBuilding a complicated app from scratch required a shared belief in a common goal\u2014one that helps the worker, the company, and the environment."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":434722,"image_position":"left","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"During app development, Iowa Select Farms\u2019 IT and business teams witnessed the effort and commitment of their colleagues.\r\n\r\n\u201cI think you've got to get to know and respect the person that you\u2019re going to be working with,\u201d Kratchmer says. His advice for building bridges between the groups: \u201cEducate yourself so you can try to bridge that gap between the language IT speaks and the language that you're trying to speak, so you can get to a common goal.\u201d\r\n\r\nFor the Iowa Select Farms teams, that tactic paid dividends. \u201cI can remember that one day, we came out of a meeting, and I think Carl, the developer, Nick, and I were all in it,\u201d Kratchmer says, \u201cand I think Nick and I [said], \u2018I think we're finally trying to talk the same language.\u2019\u201d\r\n\r\nThat happened in part because Vogel, unlike some IT directors, believes app developers should interact directly with business teams, rather than receive requests through intermediaries. That direct line of communication proved key to a successful Pumper Portal app.\r\n\r\nIn fact, Vogel even sent his developer to see the reaction, answer questions, and get feedback when the nutrient management crew unveiled Pumper Portal to a gathering of end users. The app drew on sophisticated location technology, but the interface was simple and clean, and the applicators\u2014even the tech-averse ones\u2014quickly put it to use in the field.\r\n

Lessons Learned, Lessons Shared<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nEach person on the team had a different journey to the successful launch of the Pumper Portal app. Despite the precision technology involved, Johansen, Kratchmer, and Vogel say the human dimension was key to the lessons they learned:\r\n\r\nCheck your egos:<\/strong> \u201cI think that's a part of what we do in our department working with so many different farmers and companies,\u201d Johansen says. \u201cIt's our job to make it all happen. Your ego can't get in the way of that.\u201d\r\n\r\nEmphasize the team:<\/strong> \u201cEverybody's got to be willing to work together\u2014that\u2019s a big deal,\u201d Kratchmer says. He attributes much of the team\u2019s success to willingness to learn the language of the other camp, and each person\u2019s patience in working through constraints.\r\n\r\nFind the passionate ones: <\/strong>\u201cIt comes down to the people,\u201d Vogel says. 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