Consulting

BioThinking International provides an extensive range of consulting services.

INTEGRITY: FUTUREPROOFING BRAND VALUES

"Integrity" is a service that can be applied to existing products, new ones, or the results can be used as a brief for a concept or flagship product that can inspire and inform the rest of your range. Techniques we use include:

Issues Identification Workshop, identifying environmental and social impacts across the whole life cycle of your product. Perception of external stakeholders such as customers, campaign groups and trends in upcoming legislation are all considered, as well as trends in other industry sectors.

Issues Quantification, analysis and risk assessment, including product scoring.

"Earthstorming™", where we create solutions and concepts, using various methods, including drawing on our database of over 1000 eco-innovations and also using nature itself as inspiration.

Story-Led Prioritisation, where the innovations and new design features are as-sessed for their iconic value and marketing potential, as well as their cost and environmental benefits. This also explores branding potential, story promotion, and market potential.

SP100 -- 100% product visioning -- developing concept products that are 100% sustainable, to depict the most desirable, future state of a product or organisation, and inform and inspire future product development.

DEPTH CHARGE

"Depth Charge" is about Capacity Development within your organisation, a menu of services that will recharge your team's capabilities: Gaining internal support by writing project proposals and business plans -- Edwin has written several internal project proposals for client companies, averaging over £3 million apiece, and all of which went ahead. Themes have included: identifing market opportunities, developing new business models, and justifying spend on capacity building.

Hot groups -- "lively, overachieving, dedicated groups, usually small, whose members are turned on to an exciting and challenging task". The process of creating and nurturing such voluntary, informal groups of high achieving individuals has a low success rate but huge benefits for all involved. Edwin can help inspire, cajole, subvert and generally keep the corporate structure from interfering with the flowering process. Hot groups are ideal for tack-ling the cross-functional and somewhat counter-revolutionary nature of sustainable product development.

Status monitoring for each product area -- database development for sharing and reporting progress on the greening of the product portfolio, e. g. tracking the percentages of green and supergreen products, and developing indicators and measures.

Purchasing --getting the right type of materials into the organisation is essential for achieving sustainable mass flow. Edwin has worked with purchasing departments on the revision of policies, training, new product identification, and mamy other factors including raw materials sourcing, supplier assessment, and supplier search,