Circular Business Development Consultancy
A Circular economy is rapidly becoming a new foundation for entire economies. It changes the rules of the game requiring companies to rethink where to steer their business or how to create entirely new business lines.
Circular growth strategy process is about identifying the best new business opportunities and ensuring your compliance and competitiveness in the green market transition.
As a result you know the company’s strategic positioning, have identified and validated customer-driven circular focus areas and growth ecosystems in the form of solid circular business strategy and/or roadmap.
How?
We create a clear picture of your company’s strengths, resources, business ecosystem, strategic goals and customer needs in a low-carbon circular business environment.
Our process is based on our 12 years experience and co-creation methods; it is a combination of learning, creating, discussing and challenging ourselves to reach beyond the current perspective.
Circular/Ecodesign and Circular Product Passports
Are you ready for the EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR)?
Ethica has worked with hundreds of companies on circular product/service design. We can help you get started with tailored Circular Design Sprints – a quick deep-dive into circular design strategies – or help you to scale up and transform your entire product offerings to comply with the ecodesign requirements and deliver new customer value. Our offerings include:
- integrating circularity into new products development processes or existing product optimization projects
- creating circular design guidelines, scorecards and tools
- creating R&D transformation roadmaps for scaling circular design throughout your product portfolio to ensure compliance and sustainable leadership
- delivering digital product passports (DPP) in collaboration with our DPP technology partner
How?
We work closely with your R&D, design and customer-interface teams diving deep into your existing product/service or, starting from scratch when you want to create something entirely new.
Our collaborative approach is based on iterating between:
1. Product & service design
2. Business model & system design
3. Customer experience
Expertise for Publicly Funded Projects
Circular Business Development is about successful implementation of your circular business strategy, roadmap and targets. It is about engaging the whole organization and ensuring that your critical business processes support the new circular business models.
Together with your key personnel, we draft a plan for scaling circularity throughout your product/service portfolio development, to ensure that you can leverage the best opportunities and savings. Circular business models also require that you have the right partners make your circular offerings thrive and succeed.
The concrete focus and outcomes of our circular business development services are highly customer specific, depending on your current status, your industry and your business goals. Based on 12 years experience working with companies, we can help you to focus on the right things, and proceed from experimentations and pilots to scaling and harnessing the full business benefits of circular economy.
How?
Together with you we set your ambition level for the future and start backcasting to the present. We identify your biggest opportunities and risks and push you beyond compliance to become an industry leader in the green transition.
We work closely with your key personnel across the different functions and love to engage with your customers to ensure that your circular transformation brings tangible customer and business value.
