🔄 Unlock Circular Economy Ideas with SCAMPER! 🌿

🔄 Unlock Circular Economy Ideas with SCAMPER! 🌿
Want to dive into circular business models for your company but feel stuck in your thinking by the ways that you currently do things?

Everyone keeps saying we have to "rethink" when it comes to Circular Economy, but how can we even start with that?

One thing to try: 𝑺𝑪𝑨𝑴𝑷𝑬𝑹 (*) - a brilliant technique for a structured idea generation that we can use to trigger rethinking and to envision sustainable solutions.

Each letter stands for a ‘trigger’ to rethink your current methods and ways into something more sustainable.

It works best in a collaborative session with your team, so get together and ask yourself the following prompts:

𝐒 - 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐞: Reevaluate your materials. Can you swap supplies for circular sourced alternatives or opt to use materials with smaller environmental footprint?

𝐂 - 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐞: Think about merging your offerings. Can a product and service be integrated into a product-service system? Could you provide the function of your product rather than selling it outright? Examples include lease models, product maintenance, or performance contracts.

𝐀 - 𝐀𝐝𝐚𝐩𝐭: Tweak old processes to use fewer resources and to make it easier to repair.

𝐌 - 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐲: Can you modify your product to enhance its longevity or introduce modular designs for easy reuse?

𝐏 - 𝐏𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐮𝐬𝐞: What opportunities can you see to repurpose used products?

𝐄 - 𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞: Can you think about ways to streamline or simplify the product to eliminate wasteful processes?

𝐑 - 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞: Flip the process chain. Once you found ways to close the loop and use the products at the end of their lifecycle as inputs again its time to think about the reverse logistics. What are the ways to get the resources back to you, what incentives are there for customers, etc. ?

Remember, SCAMPER isn’t just steps. It’s a mindset - pushing boundaries for innovative, sustainable solutions. As the push for CE grows, such tools are gold.

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* source of the method:
Eberle, B. (1996) Scamper On: Games for Imagination Development

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