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Unlocking the value of Product-as-a-Service

Circular consulting

OUR PROVEN METHODOLOGY IS ENABLING COMPANIES TO ACCELERATE THEIR TRANSITION TO THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY

Product-as-a-Service is a critical business model to enable the circular economy transition. It offers a tangible opportunity for companies to reduce their dependence on new resources and achieve their sustainability goals.

By enabling and incentivising resource-efficient operations and the use of durable products, Product-as-a-Service business models help to keep materials and products in use for longer. The company retains ownership of the product, this enables control of product maintenance, repair and end-of-life management. Rather than paying for product ownership, customers pay for access to the product’s function or for a specific outcome.

Overcoming the barriers to PaaS

Despite its potential to provide strong competitive advantage and improve sustainability, PaaS has not been implemented at the pace many predicted.In partnership withCradlenet(a leading circular economy network),we identified9个关键challenges that companies face when transitioning to PaaS and what they can do to address them.

View ourPaaS reportto understand the challenges and how your business can overcome them.

Accelerating the transition

With a strong understanding of the challenges, we explored the support and tools needed to accelerate the transition to Product-as-a-Service business models. Working with pioneering companies, we developed a robust methodology and toolbox to enable businesses to identify their PaaS advantage and support their transition.

Using the Toolbox

Depending on the readiness of your organisation, the toolbox can be used to get a sense of what a Product-as-Service offering would mean for your business or to start developing and implementing a Product-as-a-Service business model.

For the latter, we recommend forming a diverse working group, which should include product management, sustainability, finance and the customer perspective, and using an impartial facilitator to work through each of the 4 steps in turn.

Steps 1 – 3 consist of:

Editable Miro workshop template
PDF version of the workshop template and
Workshop facilitation guide

Step 4 consists of two editable excel sheets.

The Product-as-a-ServiceToolbox

Our tried and tested Product-as-a-Service Toolbox enables companies to understand theirgrowth opportunities andthecompetitive advantageprovided byservice-based business models.It alsoprovidespracticalsteps和指导toidentifyandovercome key challenges in the transition.

The open-sourcetoolbox,isbroken into 4 key steps.

1. Identify你的Product-as-a-Serviceadvantage

Select the appropriate product for your future Product-as-a-Service offering.
Determine你的customer target group.
Identifyobstaclesrelatedto你的product andcustomer,and制定一个计划来克服它们.

Identify your Product-as-a-Service advantage

Editable Workshop Template (Miro)

Identify your product-as-a-service advantage (PDF)

Workshop Template (PDF)

Facilitator's Guide (PDF)

2.Design for added customervalue

Detail your customer's pain points, needs and requirements.
Understand how Product-as-a-Service can help youtodeliver added value to your customer.
Develop acompelling Product-as-a-Service offering.

Editable Workshop Template (Miro)

Workshop Template (PDF)

Facilitator's guide (PDF)

3.Identify你的coreassets

Mapthe delivery of your Product-as-a-Service offering.
Understand how tosecure access to the capabilities needed and develop an asset strategy.

Editable Workshop Template (Miro)

Workshop Template (PDF)

Facilitator's guide (PDF)

4.Build yourProduct-as-a-Service business case &calculate your customerstotalcost ofownership

Model thelikely financialimplication of aPaaSbusiness model to build your business case.
Understand your customer’s total cost of ownership and assessthe financial attractiveness of your offering.

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Calculate your customers Total Cost of Ownership

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Share your progress

We hope you find the toolbox useful, it would be great to hear how you get on.

Email usto share your progress. You are also welcome to send any questions or suggestions you may have.

Supported by the ERDF

The report and methodology has been developed as a part of the project "Service-based business models - transition to PaaS in practice" funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

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