Sustainability and Circular Economy

The Circular Economy model requires firms in different sectors across the value chain to integrate disruptive technology and design business, and financial models that are based on longevity, renewability, reuse, repair, upgrade, refurbishment, serviceability, capacity sharing, and dematerialisation.

Organisations still need consider cost management and control and evaluate the financial impact.

Despite the importance and potential benefits of the Circular Economy, the private sector is yet to adopt this new approach at either the strategic or the operational level, for many different reasons. Why we think of sustainability as a vision, the Circular Economy can be considered as an operating model to enable this vision.

Designed to introduce participants to the inextricable relationship between Circular Economy and Sustainability.

It is important for companies to establish a comparative analysis between a traditional economic model and a circular business model. This programme is designed to link the Circular Economy business model to strategy, operations, value chain, finance, and innovation and technology. The blended format of the programme enables delegates to start building onto their Circular Economy knowledge, being exposed to terminology, interviews, case studies and scenarios, to support their learning that take place during their live sessions.

The micro-modules have been designed to provide foundation and introductory knowledge to participants, enabling them to immerse themselves into the Circular Economy (CE) topic more efficiently during the face-to-face part of the programme.

The module will firstly provide an overview of supply chain management, exploring its challenges and identify frameworks that can be used to overcome them. You will then explore whether the frameworks developed for forward supply chains can be applied to reverse supply chains, and we will discuss some of the unique challenges that reverse supply chains face. In the second half of the module, you will gain knowledge in business disruption and adaptation in response to economic shifts. Further, explore the rising importance of circularity and sustainability as disruptive forces and learn how successful organisations navigate disruption and emerge as winners in evolving markets.

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

This session will outline the key principles of impact investing and its role in capital allocation decisions in achieving long-term sustainability objectives. We will start by looking at the key metrics in assessing financial returns and how we can relate them to ESG considerations.

By the end of this module, you will be able to understand:

In the first part of the module, you will explore the circular transformation and its alignment with information. You will dive into how digitalisation and the utilisation of intelligent assets empower businesses to embrace circularity, but also understand how to confront potential barriers and unintended consequences linked to digitalisation. In the second part of the module, you will explore digital innovation for the Circular Economy, uncover the intricacies of Business and Circular Economy Ecosystems, and decode the mechanisms driving value creation within these interconnected networks. This module provides a holistic view of circularity, digitalisation, ecosystem dynamics, and value creation, equipping participants to excel in today’s dynamic business landscape.

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

The module will allow the participants to see that you can build competitive advantage by putting circular economy and sustainability at the core of your strategy rather than having a “separate Circular and Sustainability Strategy”. The participants during the module will be revisiting the key underlying choices underpinning a great strategy through the lenses of Circular Economy and Sustainability.

You will understand: