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Organising for the Circular Economy: A Workbook for Developing Circular Business Models

Updated on 19.09.2023

The publication 'Organising for the Circular Economy: A Workbook for Developing Circular Business Models' supports companies and other organisations that aim to become circular. It provides a unique model that highlights the various building blocks of circular business models.

Author: Jan Jonker, Ivo Kothman, Niels Faber, Naomi Montenegro Navarro
Year of publication: 2018

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This workbook is an interesting guide for cities and regions who are co-creating circular business models together with local stakeholders. It supports those who are looking for best practices in terms of methodologies but also insights into how to facilitate the transition to circular business models.
 

A concrete step-by-step approach allows organisations to work on the development of their own circular business model. To clarify and inspire this, the workbook also provides a set of infographics displaying the cycles of 30 frontrunner organisations from the Netherlands, which already actively incorporate circularity in their business operations.

Relevance for Circular Systemic Solutions

The workbook provides steps necessary for the development of circular business models. It provides practical tools for entrepreneurs, policy makers, business leaders, start-ups and ‘intrapreneurs’ that are interested in organising circularity.
 

The sections on change management aspects, the implementation process and working with circular business models focus on the development of a circular business model. The workbook supports the idea of value chain integration and stakeholder integration in the business sector, making it relevant for Circular Systemic Solutions.

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