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Circular consulting

What’s the best way to identify the key opportunities that lie within complex organisational and operational challenges, inevitable in the transition towards a circular economy? From defining a company-wide strategy to advising on product design innovation, our bespoke support offers are tailored to help you uncover and capture the circular economy opportunity.

OUR BESPOKE SUPPORTOFFERS - SOME EXAMPLES

Strategy

• Developing a circular economy strategy

• Project management of circular economy initiatives

Product & process design analysis

•Product circularity assessment Design guidelines

•Design guidelines

• Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

Business model development

•Product-as-a-service

•Business case for take-back systems

CIRCULAR ECONOMY STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT

Given today’s information overload, where do you start with defining a feasible circular economy strategy for your business? How do you ensure it is not only aligned to, but is complementary with, both your corporate strategy and your sustainability agenda?

We are the experts excited to help you not only tacklethis, butuncover the business opportunities for your specific industry and geography, mindful of technological,behavioural, regulatory, and supply chain conditions. No two businesses are the same, and neither are their corporate strategies. Ourbespokeapproach to your business means that we start creating based on your unique company past, present and future: your history, strengths, and boundaries. We offer our strategic support on specific pieces of work, or towards a broader strategy review.

We have experience in supporting you, the decision-maker, to create a robust circular economy strategy, a feasible action plan, and secure buy-in for these within your company.

The offer includes (as an example):

▪ A bespoke strategy review, tailored to your needs and scope within the specific strategy cycle your company is in.

▪ Mapping of material and resource flows within and through the business, towards identifyingkey impact hotspots.

▪ Identification and review of circular economy business opportunities within your current business models and customer offerings

▪ Quantitative opportunity estimate of i ) cost savings, ii) growth, iii) reduced environmental impact /improved sustainability

▪ For the identified priority areas, a roadmap with recommended investments, initiatives and actions

CIRCULAR ECONOMY INITIATIVES PROJECT MANAGEMENT

A circular economy strategy becomes real through focused initiatives and projects that are aligned with your corporate and sustainability agendas. We can help you (re)start on the right foot with these by providing excellent project management guidance and support.

The offer includes:

• Dedicated project management and analytical capabilities, tailored to your specific needs and timeframe.

• Flexible support level adjusted to peaks in project intensity, as needed.

• An immersive team experience, with our consultants adapting to your team culture and ways of working.

PRODUCT CIRCULARITY ASSESSMENT

很明显我们需要迫切改变我们do business: from a linear extractive system, to a circular regenerative system. To achieve this, we need to change how we design everything – what we use, what we consume, and how..

The Product Circularity Assessment is our proprietary methodology to分析a product or a product system. First, we benchmark its current state and identify design improvement opportunities fit for a circular economy. We apply three key lenses – Product, System and Business Model – which inform a comprehensive circularity assessment, including both the component and material levels. Then, using this baseline, we work closely with you to create a comprehensive design improvements list to inform future product work.

We recommend our Product Circularity Assessment as a starting point to engage with circular economy innovation in-depth, and to understand the factors that influence/determine your company’s potential/feasibility to become more circular.

The offer includes:

▪ 一个完整的产品循环评估公司luding a component and material-level analysis.

▪ A Product Circularity baseline ‘scorecard’, rating the product’s fit with a circular economy,according to the threelenses and alongdifferent modes of circularity (recycling, refurbish, reuse, repair etc.)

▪ A quantitative assessment of actual recycling rates of the product, based on composition as well as systemic and business model factors.

▪ A granular description of the key design features that enable or hamper the product’s circularity ( e.g. material choice and combination, joining methods, ease of disassembly).

▪ A problem-solving workshopto identify key improvement opportunities.

DESIGN GUIDELINES FOR A CIRCULAR ECONOMY

You likely have multiple suppliers who impact your ability to design your products and business model in line with a circular economy. Working well with them is crucial to achieving your sustainability ambitions through each step in your value chain.

We can help you develop highly effective design guidelines to enable your suppliers to deliver exactly what you need to fulfil your circular economy goals. From基准测试你目前的需求,能听懂anding the causal relationship between design and sustainability outcomes, and to turning those insights into strong and specific guidelines – this process will lead to improved results for your business.

The offer includes:

• A full review of existing design guidelines, if you have these already.

• New / revised design guidelines adapted to your and your suppliers’ needs and limitations.

• A clear rationale for implementing each design principle or requirement in the guidelines.

• Quantification of design outcomes where desired and feasible.

LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a well-established methodology to calculate/estimate the environmental impact of a product or system throughout its full life cycle. It is a powerful tool to quantify the GHG emissions associated with manufacturing and using a product. It is particularly useful to detect value chain hotspots of particularly high emissions.

Our team can provide you with a tailored life cycle assessment for any product and/or system type and size. Drawing on our circular economy expertise, we apply the LCA to identify key improvement opportunities to lower your overall footprint and help you achieve your circular economy and sustainability goals.

The offer includes:

▪ An end-to-end Life Cycle Assessment of your product or product system, adapted to ISO 14044 standards.

▪ Identification of impact ‘hotspots’, and recommendations on how negative impacts could be reduced.

▪ A circular economy perspective to the LCA results, identifying the potential impact of more circular practices (e.g.the use of recycled materials).

▪ Optionally, support with submitting and registering the LCA for ISO 14044 certification.

PRODUCT-AS-A-SERVICE BUSINESS MODEL DEVELOPMENT

Investment in circular economy practices is often hampered by linear business models, within which there is no incentive to preserve the value of the products or the materials beyond the point of sale. We must urgently change this –within a circular economy, value preservation is an inherent part ofbusiness logic.

Product-as-a-Service (PaaS) is a fundamental strategy for companies looking to transition to a circular economy business model. Despite its proven potential to boost both sustainability and competitiveness, so far it has not been implemented at the rapid pace predicted by many. In 2022, we decided to find out why.

Our "Product-as-a-Service in the circular economy" report [URL] identified nine key challenges that companies might face when transitioning to PaaS and how to best address them. In this business supportprogramme, we introduce you to the report, our methodology and work closely to develop a prototype PaaS offer compatible with your business.

The offer includes:

▪ A tailored introduction to the opportunities within PaaS and the nine challenges to implementation

▪ A workshop series to introduce your team tothe four-part PaaS methodology

▪ Expert teaching ofthe tools, helping you develop your own in-house experts

▪ Support with developing a prototype PaaS offer for your business

TAKE-BACK SYSTEM BUSINESS MODEL DEVELOPMENT

Even though modern industrial recycling is becoming more and more technologically advanced and sophisticated, a significant share of product value is still lost in the process. Investing in a take-back system is a proven way to hold on to valuable assets while retaining and gaining customers, who are more and more interested in sustainable consumption practices.

However, it has proven challenging for many companies to properly evaluate the business case and needs for a well-functioning take-back system. And so, many great opportunities remain unexplored. We can help you分析the business opportunity – including but not limited to customer retention and attraction, securing critical components and materials, enabling new business models, and ability to apply more rapid product upgrades to sharpen your competitive edge in your sector. Then we can decide together on the most feasible way to make it a reality: the partners and reverse logisticsneededand the costs involved.

The offer includes:

• Mapping the business value created by a take-back system, such as customer retention, securing critical components and materials, enabling new business models, or doing more rapid product upgrades.

• Defining the reverse logistics and value chain required to obtain products from customers.

• Identifying the potential value-adding unit operations and prioritizing among them ( e.g. parts harvesting, remanufacturing or refurbishment, better-quality recycling).

• Calculating a business case for the take-back system, clarifying the different kinds of costs and value-adds involved.

• Mapping potential partners needed to launch and operate a take-back system.

Supporting a car manufacturer as they disrupt by designing more circular vehicles

Process

The project was divided into two main work streams: mapping of recycling processes and a design for circularity analysis.

Mapping of recycling processes

The project team analyzed global vehicle and battery recycling processes to determine the recycling potential for electric vehicles in the client’s key markets. The analysis considered geographical disparities in recycling systems, processes, and legislation. It also included a projection of future demand and supply of recycled material for battery manufacturing.

Design for circularity analysis

To understand how much the design of the car aligns with the circular economy loops – prolong, repair, remanufacture, refurbish and recycle – a开云体育官方下载网站analysis was performed using our product analysis framework. The framework considers the circular economy loops from three key perspectives: Product Design, System, and Business Model. The analytical process included a physical disassembly of a car and a high voltage battery as well as interviews with experts and desk research. The analysis resulted in a circular economy design guideline that will function as a tool for engineers when designing future vehicles.

Insights

The final report provided the client’s design and strategy team with in-depth knowledge of both the current and future state of recycling. It further pinpointed the client’s challenges and opportunities to design a more circular vehicle. The results showed that through well-considered decisions taken early in the design phase, the client can impact the feasibility of circular economy strategies through the entire lifecycle of the vehicle.

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Scope

To support the client in how to realize their sustainability strategy and identify first steps on the journey towards circularity.

Process

An internal client assessment was conducted to understand the current level of knowledge and organizational maturity in relation to the circular economy. The results of the maturity assessment indicated that the organizational prerequisites for creating real change were limited. So, an introductory lecture on the circular economy and a workshop with the client’s management team were held to generate and evaluate relevant actions to boost the transition towards increased circularity. Several ideas on short and mid-term actions were identified and prioritized during the project. The actions were combined into several high impact initiatives, which were further grouped into four enablers of a circular transition.

Insights

The project confirmed that a major challenge for businesses that want to implement circular economy strategies lies in the organizational structure. Despite this, the project delivered suggested actions and insights to help the client initiate the circular transition and realize its sustainability strategy.

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