At Quaking Aspen, we bring diverse expertise to the table in several areas of green-business innovation. Just as with a financial toolkit, when it comes to sustainability, there’s a tool or framework for each part of the business cycle. While we’ve worked with both product- and service organizations, the example illustrated here is our Sustainable Innovation Toolkit integrated into a product development cycle.
The generalized product-development cycle has several steps, including R&D and product design, operational development, and sales and marketing. How do we infuse sustainable innovation into each of these steps? There are green-innovation frameworks that address each part of the cycle, but traditionally they’re practiced by individuals or companies with very specific expertise. Quaking Aspen brings these frameworks together to form a coherent product development strategy. Click the links below in the typical product-development cycle to learn more about how we infuse our Sustainable Innovation Toolkit each step.
- R&D and Product Design inspired by Nature.
- Process Development using a restorative operational model.
- Operations and value delivery using closed-loop production.
- Product launch using a sustainable business model.
- Generating sales by developing a green marketing program around the product.
- Managing continuous operations using metrics for sustainable success.
