CIRCit Workbook 2: Circular Economy Business Modelling
This workbook provides a step-by-step approach and tools to support the creation of sustainable circular business models, based on a company’s position in the value chain, current and new products & services, best practice, success cases, and the company’s strategic goals. Questions that the workbook will help you to answer include: How ready are the internal business capabilities of your company, to enable the implementation of new concepts and pilot new business forms that are not based on single-transactional product sales? And how can your company conceive, develop and implement new Circular Economy business models?
This workbook provides a step-by-step approach and tools to support the creation of sustainable circular business models, based on a company’s position in the value chain, current and new products & services, best practice, success cases, and the company’s strategic goals. Questions that the workbook will help you to answer include: How ready are the internal business capabilities of your company, to enable the implementation of new concepts and pilot new business forms that are not based on single-transactional product sales? And how can your company conceive, develop and implement new Circular Economy business models?
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RETHINK AND RECONFIGURE
business model or value generation architecture
RESULT AND PERFORMANCE ACCESS AND AVAILABILITY LONG LIFE PRODUCTS
Result or
performance
agreements
Activity
management
agreements
Sharing /
pooling
platforms
Temporary
contract-based
services
1st life
Lifetime
products
2nd life
Buy-back schemes
/ agreements
Direct
reuse
RESTORE, REDUCE & AVOID
impacts in the areas of:
RECIRCULATE
parts & products
change of paradigm
REINVENT
strive for full decoupling
RAW MATERIALS &
SOURCING
renewables
recyclable
materials
secondary source
sourcing
MANUFACTURING
lean manufacturing &
cleaner production
rework
(pre-user refurbishment
or remanufacturing)
recycle
(pre-user)
PRODUCT USE &
OPERATION
product longevity
low consumables
(energy, water, materials)
use idle product
capacity
reduced ‘value’
upgrade
repair & maintenance
reuse
refurbish
remanufacture
repurpose
RECIRCULATE
materials
Extend
existing
use-cycle
Extend to new
use-cycles
restorative
sourcing
non-toxic &
benign materials
lowest suitable
grade
cascade
(industrial symbiosis)
recover
(energy recovery, composting)
reduced ‘value’
recycle
(chemical & physical recycling)
cascade
(to other product system)
recover
(energy recovery / composting)
effective application
in end-of-life
prevent excess use, improve efficiency, improve circularity potential
LOGISTICS
The Circular Strategies Scanner can help you to map which strategy or strategies are already being implemented
by your company and to identify opportunities of complementary strategies to maximise the value
created for as fewer resources as possible. We will refer to this Scanner throughout the six workbooks.
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