Circular Economy: Circular Strategy (PowerPoint PPTX Slide Deck)

CIRCULAR ECONOMY PPT DESCRIPTION

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A Circular Economy replaces the linear "take-make-dispose" model with loops that design out waste, keep materials in use, and regenerate systems.

Circulatory reduces material use, redesigns materials and products to be less resource intensive, and recaptures waste as input for new production, decoupling material use from growth.

In practice, value circulates longer through repair, reuse, refurbishment, remanufacture, recycling, and composting across technical and biological cycles. These loops extend product lifetimes, recover materials at end of use, and lower lifecycle impacts.

This PPT presentation outlines how organizations can achieve and sustain results in Circular Economy through a 3-phase Circular Strategy:

1. Scan Opportunities – Create a ranked set of options supported by transparent criteria and structured learning plans to guide early discover.

2. Select Target Segments – Convert the most promising opportunities into funded bets with clear charters, defined accountabilities, and measurable outcomes.

3. Scale Initiatives – Deliver operating performance and unit economics at enterprise thresholds, ensuring reliability, cost efficiency, and resilience at scale.

Circular Strategy turns Circular Economy principles into enterprise performance by combining vision, action, and disciplined scale-up. This deck digs deep into each of these 3 phases of Circular Strategy, including inputs, outputs, risks, and guardrails. Other topics discussed in the presentation include challenges and obstacles impeding delivery of value through circularity, and their respective mitigation strategies.

This PowerPoint presentation on Circular Strategy framework also includes some slide templates for you to use in your own business presentations.

Source: Best Practices in Circular Economy PowerPoint Slides: Circular Economy: Circular Strategy PowerPoint (PPTX) Presentation Slide Deck, LearnPPT Consulting

CIRCULAR ECONOMY PPT SLIDES

Six Core Activities for Circular Economy Operations Design

This PPT slide outlines the 6 core activities that structure operations within a Circular Economy, emphasizing how these steps enable products to last longer and materials to circulate through the system. The activities are presented in a linear flow, starting with "Regenerate" and ending with "Optimize," illustrating a continuous loop designed to improve performance and reduce waste. Each activity is briefly described, highlighting its role in maintaining resource efficiency, such as shifting to renewable energy, keeping components in close loops, or removing waste from supply chains.

The core activities include regenerating resources by shifting to renewable energy sources, maintaining components and materials in closed loops through manufacturing and recycling, exchanging old materials with advanced renewable options, virtualizing goods and services to reduce physical resource use, sharing products to extend their lifespan, and optimizing processes to improve product efficiency and waste removal. These steps are interconnected, forming a cycle that supports sustainability and operational resilience.

The slide also references a specific framework for implementing these activities, with a link for further details. The visual design emphasizes the cyclical nature of the activities, reinforcing the idea that a Circular Economy is an ongoing process rather than a one-time change. For executives, this slide offers a clear, structured approach to embedding circular principles into operational strategy, with each activity representing a lever for improving resource management and cost efficiency. It underscores that adopting these core activities can lead to tangible performance improvements and sustainability benefits.

Structured Three-Phase Approach to Circular Economy Strategy

This PPT slide outlines a three-phase approach to implementing a circular economy strategy. The process begins with scanning opportunities, where options are identified based on clear criteria and structured plans. This phase emphasizes the importance of transparency and early discovery, setting the foundation for subsequent steps.

Next, the focus shifts to selecting target segments. This involves converting promising opportunities into actionable bets by defining specific parameters such as business models, products, and ecosystems. The goal is to prioritize segments with the most potential, supported by clear accountability and measurable outcomes.

The final phase is scaling initiatives, which centers on operational execution. It involves delivering performance at enterprise thresholds, ensuring reliability, cost efficiency, and resilience at scale. The slide suggests using the circular strategy framework as an execution tracker, highlighting current progress, expected outputs, and investments needed to pass each stage.

A key insight is that progress from initial discovery to scaled operations depends on clear stage gates and disciplined execution. The slide also underscores the importance of aligning investments and technology with each phase, ensuring that the transition from one stage to the next is supported by measurable results. Overall, the slide provides a structured view of how organizations can systematically advance their circular economy efforts, emphasizing clarity, accountability, and disciplined scaling.

Target Segment Selection for Circular Strategy Execution

This PPT slide outlines the next phase in a circular strategy process, specifically focusing on selecting target segments to prioritize resources. It emphasizes that the goal is to identify a few key segments that are most likely to generate success, based on their impact, economic viability, and feasibility. The process involves a structured approach, starting with choosing the right segments, offers, and channels that align with the company's strategic goals.

The slide details the purpose of this phase, which is to ensure that resources are directed toward segments with the highest potential. It highlights the importance of clear accountability, with budgets, owners, and KPIs explicitly assigned. The activities include building business cases for each segment, selecting commercial models and pricing strategies, and planning pilots that test these assumptions at scale. These steps are designed to create a focused, measurable approach to scaling the most promising segments.

Supporting inputs and outputs are also specified. Inputs include ranked options, pilot learnings, customer validation, and regulatory constraints. Outputs are the formalized bets—budgets, KPIs, contracts, and plans—that will guide the execution. The slide underscores that leadership must commit only to strategies with clear thresholds and accountability, avoiding scattered efforts. The overall message is that this phase aims to streamline resource allocation, reduce risk, and improve the likelihood of success by focusing on the most promising segments and having a disciplined, data-driven approach.

Identifying and Monetizing New Value Drivers in Circular Economy

This PPT slide discusses how legacy economic models are failing to support the shift toward circular economy practices. It highlights that traditional approaches focus on linear KPIs like revenue, which do not account for the value created through services, data, and reverse flows. The slide emphasizes the need to identify and monetize new value creation drivers that stem from circular initiatives, as these are often overlooked in conventional financial metrics.

The core of the slide outlines a remediation strategy centered on mapping profit and control points across the product lifecycle. This involves locating where services, data, and reverse flows generate sustainable margins. It suggests piloting new models such as uptime guarantees and subscription services, which align incentives with circular activities. Updating KPIs, pricing structures, and incentive systems is also recommended to reward these new behaviors, replacing traditional single-sale metrics. Building secondary marketplaces and service offerings is another tactic to capture value that would otherwise be lost.

Success metrics focus on financial contributions from service-based and recovery-linked offerings. The slide stresses that revenue, margins, utilization, recovery, and lifetime metrics should meet thresholds to justify investments. Cross-functional KPIs and incentives are vital to support these efforts, ensuring that all parts of the organization are aligned toward circularity. The overall message is that shifting from a linear to a circular economic model requires a fundamental change in how value is measured, tracked, and rewarded. This approach improves long-term sustainability and profitability by unlocking new streams of value that traditional models ignore.

Aligning Organizational Priorities for Circular Strategy Execution

This PPT slide discusses how prioritization of circular initiatives can break down when functions across an organization are ranked differently, and no single rubric or owner sets the sequence. It emphasizes the importance of establishing a unified enterprise rubric based on impact, feasibility, and time to value to avoid confusion and conflicting priorities. The slide suggests that leadership should conduct stage-gated reviews of circular projects, assigning a single portfolio owner to convert decisions into a clear roadmap with budgets, capacity reservations, and partner commitments.

The visual shows 2 sets of rankings from different expert groups—sales, marketing, support on one side, and supply chain, operations on the other. Both groups rank sustainability-related initiatives, such as circularity, differently in terms of importance. The sales team places a higher importance on sustainability (circularity) at 56%, while the supply chain team assigns it a lower priority at 39%. This discrepancy highlights how different functions view the same initiative through their own lenses, which can lead to scattered funding and duplicated efforts.

A key point is that these conflicting priorities can slow down progress and create capacity issues. The right approach involves consolidating these perspectives into a single, aligned roadmap. The slide underscores that shared priorities and a sequenced plan are essential for turning circular strategies into tangible enterprise-wide results. It also hints that a study by Bain & Company illustrates how different functions apply different lenses, producing conflicting rankings that hinder execution. The overall message is that alignment on priorities is critical for making circular initiatives effective and scalable across the organization.