How can we enable sustainable networks for cotton sourcing in China. Presentation at Sustainable & Ethical Cotton Sourcing Conference London 16th-17th March.
3. Better business will evolve new models...
Radically
efficient
Full lifecycle
servicing
Learning
orientated
Stakeholder
valued
4. ..with new sources of inspiration
• Efficient energy transfers designed on bees
• Self-cleaning windows based on lotus leaves
• Disposal of toxic byproducts using mushrooms
7. Ability
to capture sources
of value
Invest to
maintain
competitive
advantage
Apply
external pressure
to conform
Adopt
practices to
comply, defy,
or manipulate
Establish
role models
for future
Seek
successful
examples to
replicate
Change
standards of
personal practice
Promote
professional
standards
(Consumer
behaviours)
Catalysts for change
How to better businesses evolve…
8. Catalysts for change
How to better businesses emerge…
Radical paradigm shift (sustainable business design)
Develop radical new
business models, market systems, governance, and exchange
mechanisms