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This tool is exploratory—it won’t tell you what’s right or wrong or better or worse. To make such judgments, combine the sustainability booster with other tools or metrics such as the UN SDG targets, LCA, or sustainability certifications. But it can help you thoroughly assess an existing business using your own judgement, or it can help you brainstorm many ideas to boost the sustainability of your business, both environmentally and socially aligning the company operations with your ethical values. Download the Presidio Graduate School Business Sustainability Booster [PDF]
Such explorations are crucial to making products or services that change theworld. The Presidio booster recommends circular economy considerations, but does not recommend specific product service systems. It offers abstract prompts that can operate on the higher-level system. For example, for circular material sourcing, it provides obvious suggestions like the “materials” prompt in the “Key Resources” box suggesting material reuse and low-impact materials, but it goes beyond that to create the business conditions to drive such material availability. In the “Key Partners” box, the “Vendors / Suppliers” and “Industry Transformation” prompts suggest working with supply chain vendors to increase the availability of better materials or components,
and improve their production practices, share knowledge to co-create better options, and more. These and the “Governments / Regulators” and “Non-governmental Organisations” prompts suggest driving better policy across the whole industry. The “Industry Transformation” card even suggests working with competitors to drive such
material availability or policy. Such larger systemic interventions don’t replace product-level tools and strategies for circular design, but make them more viable by driving the availability of circular-sourced components.