A circular economy offers enormous commercial opportunities. But it requires different business models than we know from the linear take-make-waste economy. You will have to redefine how you create value and how you exploit this value better and for longer. This includes innovative value propositions. But also other cost structures and new revenue models. These represent interesting design challenges that are also directly related to your product-service design.
From establishing value to financing circular business models. Below you'll find knowledge that will help you make value retention profitable.
Value thinking revolves around the principles of value creation and destruction. How do you establish the economic, environmental and social value of products, components and materials?
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Read more aboutThis online course for design professionals will teach you to assess products for their circularity and give you tools for redesign so that the product fits into a circular economy. By deassembling your own case study, you will learn to use our tools, such as Hotspot & Disassembly Mapping, and the Circularity Calculator (CC)
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Within this online course you will learn how to use Hotspot and Disassembly mapping to find circular hotspot activities and parts in the product architecture. Based on the Bill of Materials of your product case study, you will evaluate the eventual economic value capture when applying repair, refurb, reman and recycling in your design.
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