CIBIP Toolbox

To help you facilitate a target group loop process, we use the value creator tool. The right side of the value creator tool specifies what information you are looking for about your target group in the target group loop.

By starting from yourself and the members you have in your team, you can begin to map your common existing resources. The resource mapping is not only about identifying finances or time, but also about finding your common competences, skills, contacts, passions, driving forces and experiences. Many times important resources are overlooked as they are invisible to the rest of the team. To prevent resources from being wasted, you can use the opportunity map tool to make a joint inventory of what assets you have in your particular team.

The visual highlights 5 business models, linked to the circular value chain. New elements contain reversed logistics, connecting with a different circular circuit and design & systems thinking across the entire value chain. For each business model a business example was provided.

Source: Adapted from https://vlaanderen-circulair.be/nl/kennis/infografieken

The R strategies are a practical guide to circularity. The strategies are ordered by the degree of circularity and divided into 3 groups. Strategies R9 and R8 are closest to the current linear economy and relate to useful applications of materials; R7 to R3 contain strategies related to extending the lifespan of products and its parts; and R2-R0 are strategies related to smarter product use and manufacturing.

Source: R-strategies. Source: Adapted from Potting et al. (2017)

What do you want to achieve? 5x Why (Simon Sinek)
To understand the purpose & motivation of the participants' circular business idea the 5x why technique was used.

What are the Five Whys? A Tool For Root Cause Analysis | Tulip

This is a guide on the boxes of the CBMC with two business examples.

The circular business model canvas is a development of Alexander Osterwalder's business development model: Business model canvas. The model has been applied and tested all over the world and is used today in organizations such as IBM, Ericsson, Deloitte etc. The business model canvas creates a common language that makes it easier to manage business models in order to create new strategic options. The adaptation in to a Circular Business Model Canvas was designed by the Smice project, an Interreg Sverige-Norge initiative