Circular Economy

Your challenges:

• You want to identify circular potentials in an interdisciplinary and creative way
• You lack the speed to drive and test ideas in everyday life
• You want to sensitize and inspire your employees in the context of the Circular Economy

UNITY solution approach:

• Generation and validation of circular ideas along your product lifecycle based on our proven ideation and prototyping methods
• From a one-day ideation workshop or a multi-day boost camp format to a Sustainathon for >50 participants – our fast-track formats provide you with the right impulses for transformation

Your challenges:

• You are unclear about where to focus your goals and looking for strategic guidance on how to implement the Circular Economy
• You are lacking an organizational structure to effectively manage Circular Economy activities through clearly defined roles and responsibilities

UNITY solution approach:

• Creation of a basic knowledge of the Circular Economy and based on this, derivation of goals that are appropriate for your company
• Development of strategic guidelines in the form of measurable and reportable targets (KPIs and guidelines)
• Collaborative development of an empowering governance structure

Your challenges:

• Would you like to modernize your service portfolio and expand it with sustainable solutions in line with the CSRD/EU taxonomy?
• Are you struggling to implement and scale circular business model ideas?

Our solution approach:

• Design circular business models in accordance with the CSRD/EU taxonomy, e.g. using a triple layer business model canvas (economic, ecological and social)
• Prioritize and select relevant circular business model patterns (e.g. XaaS models) with subsequent development and piloting phase

Your challenges:

• Do you want to have a positive impact on the environmental footprint of your products as early as the product development stage?
• Are you facing the challenge of integrating circular development principles into your processes and systems?

Our solution approach:

• Develop an integrated framework for circular principles in product development and systems engineering
• Establish an efficient backbone for managing circular data in product development
• Implement life cycle analyses to optimize the environmental impact of systems.

Your challenges:

• Do you want to make your products circular along their entire life cycle, but don't know how or where to start?
• Would you like to uncover and utilize the circular potential of your products, especially in the post-use phases?

Our solution approach:

• Identify circular potentials along the entire product life cycle together
• Develop concepts for the implementation of identified areas of action together
• Enable the implementation of these areas of action

Your challenges:

• You feel that you are not taking full advantage of the potential of data and your existing system landscape
• You want to make data-based decisions in the circular development, production and traceability of your products

UNITY solution approach:

• Analysis of the existing PDM/PLM system landscape, uncovering potentials and creating uniform understanding of topics such as the digital product passport or the digital twin
• Joint development of digital use cases along the product lifecycle and support during piloting

Your challenges:

• Would you like to sensitize, motivate and empower your employees in the context of the circular economy?
• Do you have difficulties integrating the circular economy into your existing structures and processes?

Our solution approach:

• Use our experience to build a consistent Target Operating Model including organizational structures, roles and processes!
• Develop methods, tools and training materials with us to empower your organization!
• Establish formats with us to promote a circular mindset!

Your challenges:

• You need support in contacting value creation partners 
• You lack the right contacts to make strategic partnerships in the context of the Circular Economy

UNITY solution approach:

• Joint development of a collaboration concept and piloting of initial partnerships, starting with co-sourcing and co-engineering and ending with cross-manufacturer traceability
• Comprehensive insight into the possibilities of shared services