We help product based businesses to make confident, evidence-based decisions around sustainable and circular opportunities, reducing uncertainty around sustainable innovation
Whether you’re starting from scratch, need help identifying what you should be focusing on, or want to create more circularity in your business, we are here to help. Drawing on 25 years of expertise we help companies to understand where the biggest opportunities lie, evaluate whether the ‘obvious solution’ is genuinely the best one and navigate trade-offs with confidence.
Sustainable Product Innovation
Core sustainable innovation services that we offer:
EVALUATION
Identifying environmental hotspots, identifying risks, exploring trade-offs and uncovering opportunities that create genuine commercial and environmental value
Activities include:
- Using our abridged product carbon footprinting (PCF) methodology to identify environmental ‘hotspots’ and support strategic decision making.
- Sustainability analysis of design concepts, products, packaging, and services
- Qualitative analysis to evaluate softer design features such as usability, customer experience, aesthetics, clarity of communication
- In-house ‘quick and dirty’ carbon modelling to support go / no-go decision making
FEASIBILITY ASSESSMENT
Exploring whether sustainable and circular opportunities are commercially and operationally realistic before significant investment is made
For example:
- Systems mapping to evaluate circular opportunities in the product supply chain and across the product lifecycle
- Research and evaluation to explore whether remanufacture is a feasible business model within current constraints
CROSS-SECTOR BENCHMARKING
Understanding how competitors and parallel industries approach similar sustainability challenges.
For example:
- Competitor analysis
- Landscape mapping to learn from best practice in parallel industries
STRATEGIC SUSTAINABILITY INSIGHT
Research led insight generation to support better sustainability and innovation decisions
For example:
- Deep dives into specific topics to support circularity/sustainability across the product lifecycle
- Innovation tracking (materials, processes, end of life) to inform R&D, procurement, and support investment opportunities.
The challenges you might be facing
Our clients work across a wide range of sectors and their needs are wide ranging, but these are some of the common areas they want help with…
Understanding the environmental hotspots for their product.
Understanding how to reduce the carbon impact of an existing product or pack.
Raising staff awareness of sustainability opportunities to create a common drive for cohesive action.
Researching emerging materials and processes with specific technical capabilities.
How to practically embed circularity into their business model and supply chain.
Assessing concepts to identify which has the lowest carbon impact, and the greatest potential of value generation.
Identifying where and how environmental improvements can be made to products and packaging.
Researching materials, innovations & processes to support the ongoing needs of R&D.
Removing single use plastic from packaging designs to meet new legislation.
Sustainable Innovation consultancy
Choosing to work with an independent consultancy offers many benefits:
– 25 years of experience to hit the ground running
– Broad cross sectoral industry knowledge
– Expertise on a par with consulting firms, but at a lower cost
– Project based or fractional support to suit your needs
– Quicker turnaround on results in many scenarios
– Access to a wide network of sustainability specialists