Collaborating for Impact: Our Sustainability Partners

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Working in partnership with IfM Engage, the knowledge transfer arm of the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, we deliver training and strategic consultancy to manufacturers and policymakers drawing upon a suite of tools developed by researchers within the university. Some of the many specialisations of IfM Engage include:

Strategic and technology roadmapping: to create sustainability strategy and gain alignment and action across your organisation.

Manufacturing footprint strategy: to optimise your global production networks and reduce costs and enhance sustainability.

Ecosystem strategy: create a business ecosystem strategy to highlight opportunities for innovation and new sustainable value capture and creation.

Sustainable manufacturing: uncover ways you can be more efficient and sustainable, alternative materials and processes, reducing costs and waste and environmental impacts. 

We work with the Project Circular X team at the Maastricht Sustainability Institute (MSI), Maastricht University, researching circular business model practices and developing new practical tools to support broader adoption of state-of-the-art business models. These tools include: 

The Circular experimentation Workbench: to help develop circular business experiments rapidly. 

The Boundary Tool: is a process tool that helps businesses engage in multi-stakeholder collaboration for circular business model innovation.

Circular collaboration canvas: used within a workshop setting it is a poster template that gets users to think in detail upon a circular value proposition.

Circular Business Model Pilot Plan: This plan aims to assist businesses implement ambitious circular business model innovations.

Circularity Deck: a card deck-based tool that challenges you to take a broad perspective on the circular economy. It helps you analyze, ideate and develop the circularity potential of your innovation ecosystem.