Service Models for a Circular Economy

Introduction

Shifting to a circular economy is a major challenge for manufacturers and industrial/technical service providers.

New approaches are required for:

• Product design and engineering.
• Overall business models which may need to become more service oriented.
• Asset or product life cycle management services, including maintenance and repair.

In the Executive Service Roundtable of June, we discussed:

• What are the viable service models?
• Is the circular economy a threat or opportunity?
• How to develop the new service models?

Kick-Off meeting

June 15 & 21

Key topics discussed:

• What are the viable service models?
  How to
  • Increase utilisation rate of the products and assets?
  • Increase the economic lifetime?
  • How to improve the recycling of products, components, and materials
  • How to re-use other materials (packaging etc).
    
    This will be different for each industry.
• Is the circular economy a threat or opportunity?
  A circular economy, industry, and business may involve a lot of reduction, decline, or consolidation. For example, reduction of manufacturing volume.
  • How viable is this for a business?
  • How to handle potential cannibalism?
  • How to turn threats into opportunities?
• How to develop the new service models?
  The bottom line is that the required innovations may require radical innovations of business models in emerging industries and markets.
  A lot of uncertainty is involved.
  What are the best strategies to succeed with such innovations?

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Overview of meetings in each monthly Roundtable

Every month, we start a new Roundtable with another theme.

For each monthly Roundtable, we will host 4 online meetings of 1 hour each:

1. A Kick-Off meeting on the first Monday of the Month.
   We present best practices and practical frameworks, after which we have a peer discussion.
2. A first Ask-Us-Anything meeting on the second Monday of the month.
   We will discuss a few of the questions that were submitted by participants beforehand.
3. A Deep-Dive meeting on the third Monday of the month.
   We present a deep-dive on the 1-2 topics participants chose, after which we have a peer discussion.
4. A second Ask-Us-Anything meeting on the fourth Monday of the month.
   To close the topic, we will discuss a few of the questions that were submitted by participants beforehand.

We run each meeting in two sessions to allow participants from most time zones to participate.

The Kick-Off meetings are for all (free) members.

The other three meetings are only for All Access members.

Check out the differences between the different Roundtable memberships here.

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