This framework is developed by a team of former McKinsey and Big 4 consultants. The presentation follows the headline-body-bumper slide format used by global consulting firms.
Explore a Circular Economy framework by ex-McKinsey & Big 4 consultants. Learn to implement a 3-phase Circular Strategy for sustainable enterprise performance. Circular Economy: Circular Strategy is a 32-slide PPT PowerPoint presentation slide deck (PPTX) available for immediate download upon purchase.
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.
This PPT slide outlines 6 core activities of a Circular Economy: Regenerate, Maintain, Exchange, Virtualize, Share, and Optimize. Regenerating resources involves shifting to renewable energy sources. Maintaining components and materials in closed loops enhances resource efficiency through manufacturing and recycling. Exchanging old materials for advanced renewable options supports sustainability. Virtualizing goods and services reduces physical resource use, while sharing products extends their lifespan. Optimizing processes improves product efficiency and waste removal. These interconnected activities form a continuous cycle that enhances operational resilience and sustainability. The slide references a specific framework for implementing these activities, emphasizing the ongoing nature of the Circular Economy.
This PPT slide outlines a three-phase approach to implementing a circular economy strategy. The first phase, scanning opportunities, involves identifying options based on clear criteria and structured plans, emphasizing transparency and early discovery. The second phase focuses on selecting target segments by converting opportunities into actionable bets, defining parameters such as business models, products, and ecosystems to prioritize high-potential segments with measurable outcomes. The final phase, scaling initiatives, centers on operational execution, ensuring reliability, cost efficiency, and resilience. Utilizing the circular strategy framework as an execution tracker highlights progress, expected outputs, and necessary investments. Progress from discovery to scaled operations relies on clear stage gates and disciplined execution, aligning investments and technology with each phase to support measurable results.
This PPT slide outlines the next phase in a circular strategy process focused on selecting target segments for resource prioritization. The goal is to identify key segments with high impact, economic viability, and feasibility. This structured approach involves choosing segments, offers, and channels aligned with strategic goals. Clear accountability is essential, with assigned budgets, owners, and KPIs. Activities include building business cases, selecting commercial models, pricing strategies, and planning pilots to test assumptions at scale. Inputs consist of ranked options, pilot learnings, customer validation, and regulatory constraints. Outputs are formalized bets—budgets, KPIs, contracts, and plans guiding execution. Leadership must commit to strategies with clear thresholds and accountability to streamline resource allocation, reduce risk, and improve success likelihood by focusing on promising segments with a disciplined, data-driven approach.
Prioritization of circular initiatives can falter when organizational functions rank them differently without a unified rubric. Establishing a single enterprise rubric based on impact, feasibility, and time to value is essential to align priorities and avoid conflicting views. Leadership should conduct stage-gated reviews of circular projects, designating a single portfolio owner to create a clear roadmap with budgets and commitments. For instance, the sales team ranks sustainability (circularity) at 56%, while the supply chain team assigns it only 39%, illustrating how different functions perceive the same initiative variably. This misalignment can slow progress and create capacity issues. A consolidated roadmap with shared priorities is critical for effective and scalable circular strategies across the organization. A Bain & Company study further highlights how conflicting rankings hinder execution.
Legacy economic models are failing to support the shift toward circular economy practices, focusing instead on linear KPIs like revenue that overlook value from services, data, and reverse flows. Identifying and monetizing new value creation drivers from circular initiatives is essential. A remediation strategy involves mapping profit and control points across the product lifecycle to locate sustainable margins generated by services and reverse flows. Piloting models such as uptime guarantees and subscription services aligns incentives with circular activities. Updating KPIs, pricing structures, and incentive systems is necessary to reward these behaviors, moving away from traditional single-sale metrics. Success metrics should include revenue, margins, utilization, recovery, and lifetime metrics, with cross-functional KPIs vital for organizational alignment toward circularity. Transitioning from a linear to a circular economic model necessitates a fundamental change in how value is measured, tracked, and rewarded, unlocking new streams of value.
Source: Best Practices in Circular Economy PowerPoint Slides: Circular Economy: Circular Strategy PowerPoint (PPTX) Presentation Slide Deck, LearnPPT Consulting
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