Value Cycles: Use Nature's Value-Adding Self-Sustaining Cycle to Revolutionize Your Value Chain
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- Synopsis
- The value chain model has long served the needs of business production, but today we know it is built on faulty assumptions about what happens at both ends of the chain-inputs won't always be abundant and cheap and the environment cannot limitlessly accept the consumer and industrial waste at the other end. Now compare this overtaxed and costly model to nature's value cycle in which literally everything we see is made of recycled elements which have been in existence since the beginning of time. While your business may not be able to reach nature's level of efficiency, recreating nature's value cycle for your business will result in increased profitability and environmental sustainability. This chapter gives you a realistic and easily adaptable plan for shifting from chain to cycle-morphing your products from simple, valueless waste to an economically valuable supply of inputs for the next production run. Through relevant business cases and models, this chapter shows you how to transform your business at the materials, products, and components levels, how to combat the economic enablers which might challenge your new cycle, and how to extend your value cycle strategies for one product across any number of products. This chapter was originally published as Chapter 3 of "Earth, Inc.: Using Nature's Rules to Build Sustainable Profits."
- Copyright:
- 2010
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Publisher:
- Harvard Business Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 08/03/16
- Copyrighted By:
- HBS Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Business and Finance
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.