Discover the joy of circular business operations
The Circular Solution Space®.
With the Circular Solution Space, participants work together in a series of workshops to discover circular value propositions, business models and production methods specific to their own organisation. These workshops are always based on your existing business model and business case.
The resulting Circular Solution Space reveals promising and alternative paths to migrate from your existing business operations to more circular business forms and business cases. Using a physical, three-dimensional model, we scientifically analyse, generate and visualise ideas for your circular business development. Working in groups in this shared creative process leads to company-wide solutions and concrete paths towards 100% circular business fully endorsed by all the participants.
In addition to the Circular Solution Space, we provide a series of analytical tools and calculation models to numerically validate the new ideas and solutions, and to monitor and test the (pilot) implementation based on your business operations and business case. Exploring and discussing the possibilities from the different disciplines and perspectives of your own staff creates a collective intelligence and ambition. This anchors the proposed process in your team, enabling your organisation to move circularity forward from within.
Our four building blocks
1. Motivation
and fun
Transforming your company towards 100% circularity requires commitment and perseverance. Together we map the opportunities of more circular business operations, creating a sustainable incentive to actually keep changing.
2. Mutual understanding
In order to implement change processes successfully, we all need to speak the same language. An essential part of our approach is to provide a shared ‘circular language and terminology’ that makes sense and is understood by all those involved.
3. Methodology
and Tools
The chances of successfully implementing circular solutions in your company increase enormously when the different paths towards 100% circularity can be developed and compared systematically and in multidisciplinary teams. With our proven methodology, we provide a unique and complete set of tools for systematic analysis, joint ideation, and further development of your circular solution.
Changing to circularity is only really achievable when it reliably supports your company’s business models. In addition to existing economic calculation tools, we offer quantitative methods for determining the level of circularity of existing and new circular solutions. By validating the results of your circular development, these can then be promoted to the outside world.
4. Evaluation & measurement tools
One of the main results of our programme is the development of a corporate ‘circular’ team. By working together in the workshops, we create an in-house multidisciplinary business team with the expertise, tools and motivation to set up and drive your circular business development. The workshop outcomes are set out in a clear and practical roadmap to guide your team on this circular transformation.
When developing the roadmap, we look beyond interventions within production processes and product development. As circularity is often about product life extension through multiple users and use cycles, we believe that successful circular transformation requires interventions in all aspects of and around the product life cycle. Marketing communication and (brand) strategies are integral to successfully transitioning to a circular approach. Therefore, setting up a communication strategy and tools to engage and motivate your internal and external stakeholders is an integral step in the roadmap
Our program
A typical participant group for a workshop programme with the Circular Solution Space® includes experts from different business disciplines within your organisation. Many of our workshops include staff working in product design and engineering, marketing, sales, procurement, operations, legal, finance as well as management. The underlying idea is to a create a multidisciplinary team who will work together throughout the chosen workshop programme.