by Lavery Pennell | 31 Jul 2015 | business model innovation, cost reduction innovation, full blog, manufacturing, product & service innovation, sustainable innovation
You can now buy as-new remade office furniture for less than half the new recommended retail price, thanks to the circular economy. Used and recyclable have limits While used office furniture has always been an option, it has traditionally involved compromising on...
by Lavery Pennell | 27 Jul 2015 | business model innovation, full blog, manufacturing, sustainable innovation
This video offers practical lessons on how to create a disruptive business, with details on building a circular/remanufacturing business. Greg Lavery explains how Lavery/Pennell has fashioned its own disruptive business model and created Rype Guides and Rype Office, a...
by Lavery Pennell | 20 Jul 2015 | full blog, sustainable innovation
Sustainable innovation differs substantially from regular innovation. Read what a group of leading innovation and sustainability experts had to say on the subject. On 9 July, international corporates, startups, academia, financiers and not-for-profit organisations...
by Lavery Pennell | 26 Mar 2015 | full blog, sustainable innovation
New Opportunity Many commentators believe that sustainability harms profitability; we have found the opposite to be true – good sustainability programs add significantly to profits. This is because many of today’s business challenges relate to society and the...
by Lavery Pennell | 10 Nov 2014 | full blog, sustainable innovation
Sustainability teams in leading global companies are re-inventing themselves to move from squeezed cost centres to vital profit centres. They have realised that they must be able to answer the question: “What is the return on investment of the sustainability team?”...
by Lavery Pennell | 28 May 2014 | business model innovation, full blog, manufacturing, sustainable innovation
How Unilever, Interface, Nestle, Patagonia and others have improved both their profitability and sustainability in 3 steps. This video describes how leading companies have built on a foundation of non-labour resource efficiency (as discussed in the Next Manufacturing...
