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45 Sustainable Business Model Patterns - Coggle Diagram
45 Sustainable Business Model Patterns
II. Financing
Crowdfunding
Modular pattern
Challenge: Mainstream investors are less likely to invest in sustainable businesses
Solution: mobilizing an online network to raise capital through relatively small contributors
Microfinance
Prototypical pattern
Solution: providing small loans and other financial services such as savings accounts, insurance, money transfer
Challenge: Lack of access to financial services to low-income people
Profit Reinvestment
Modular pattern
Challenge: lack of offerings, price barriers
Solution: investors are able to regain their initial investment, but do not receive any return on investment.
VIII. Social Mission
Expertise Broker
Employing Minority Talent
Soup Kitchen
Socio-Economic Empowerment
Two-Sided Social Business
Challenge:
I. Pricing & Revenue
Differential Pricing
Modular pattern
Challenge: Lack of access of much-needed products/services
Solution: Higher prices for willingness and ability to pay, lower prices for people in-need.
Social Freemium
Modular pattern
Solution: providing a basic service/product free of charge, while charging a fee for advanced features and functionality
Challenge: Prices too high
Customer Financing
Modular pattern
Challenge: Prices too high
Solution: applying a financial life cycle perspective, progressive purchasing
Subscription
Modular pattern
Solution: charge customers a recurring fee
Challenge: Discontinuous revenues
VII. Access Provision
Market Maker
Challenge: people living without access to education or basic infrastructure
Prototypical pattern
Solution: creating a new marketing system, such as using established and local retail networks, offering small amount of basic products, training, education, etc.
e-Transaction Platform
Challenge: High transaction costs, logistical problems, and a lack of security hinder customers from making safe payments
Solution: allows financially excluded customers to manage their finances more flexibly and securely at low costs with a e-transaction platform
Prototypical pattern
Experience-Based Customer Credit
Solution: offering credit to customers they know, based on trust
Challenge: lack access to financial services
Modular pattern
Last-Mile Grid Service
Modular pattern
Solution: providing access to grid-based services also to low-income and remote households
Challenge: lack access to grid-based electricity and water services
Value for Money Education
Challenge: Higher education is often not available or affordable
Solution: making higher education accessible to all by improving affordability, offering flexibility, creating awareness, and sustaining involvment
Prototypical pattern
Value for Money Housing
Solution: comprises a portfolio of initiatives going beyond offering a home for sale, from setting up partnerships with homebuilders and banks to offering 'soft' forms of support, such as process guidance
Challenge: Owning a home
Prototypical pattern
IX. Service & Performance
Pay for Success
Product-Oriented Service
Use-Oriented Service
Result-Oriented Service
X. Cooperative
Cooperative Ownership
XI. Community
Sharing
III. Ecodesign
Green Razor & Blade
Protytypical pattern
Challenge: reducing material and energy consumption as well as waste generation, stop planned obsolescence
Solution: creating a modular offering that combines a durable product with short-lived consumables.
Resource Efficiency & Productivity
Overarching pattern
Challenge: preserving resources by reducing waste
Solution: unlocking the full potential of resources
Sustainable Product Design
Modular pattern
Challenge: energy inefficient and resource wasteful throughout their life circle
Solution: Discover how product design eases or frustrates maintenance and repair, upgrading, reuse, remanufacturing, and re- or upcycling, across its entire life cycle
Renewable Resource and Natural Processes
Overarching pattern
Challenge: Almost all economic activity relies on finite natural resources
Solution: Substitute finite resources by renewable energies, going along with biomimicry, blue economy, etc.
VI.Giving
Buy One, Give One
Challenge: price barriers
Modular pattern
Solution: donate goods or services in a fixed ratio to their regular sales
Data for Social Good
Challenge: unwillingness or incapacity to pay for a product/service
Prototypical pattern
Solution: offering a product or a service for free, while at the same time allowing the company to accumulate, curate, and commercialise data generated by using the product or service
V.Supply Chain
Green Supply Chain Management
Challenge: Supply chains can have huge impacts, in some cases up to 90% of a company's total social and environmental impact.
Solution: green purchasing, green manufacturing at supplier sites, green transportation and distribution, as well as broader practices
Overarching pattern
Inclusive Sourcing
Modular pattern
Challenge: Little local suppliers in poorer countries are often excluded from participation in the global economy
Solution: providing support to small-scale producers, or other disadvantaged groups by including them as employees, producers, and business owners at various points in the supply chain
Micro Distribution and Retail
Solution: designing and managing logistics for small and frequent deliveries, adapting products to the needs and financial means of cunsumers, and offering support
Challenge: People suffer from insufficient supplies of important goods
Modular pattern
Virtual Sales and Distribution
Challenge: classic brick and mortar stores are expensive
Solution: replacing it with digital platforms, digital stores, and other types of virtual customer relationships and channels
Modular pattern
Produce on Demand
Challenge: forecasting demand to produce before is difficult
Modular pattern
Solution: manufacturing products after customers have ordered them
Short Supply Chain
Challenge: Complex supply chains lead to a lack of transparency
Solution: reducing the complexity of supply chains (geographical distance & number of partners) and networks to improve their transparency and traçability
Overarching pattern
IV. Closing-the-Loop
By-Product Synergy
Overarching pattern
Challenge: Production processes often have a number of by-products, which are often seen as waste material
Solution: Taking the waste stream from one production process and turning it into resources that can be used as input in the same or other production processes
Industrial Symbiosis
Overarching pattern
Solution: optimising material flows and reducing waste through collaboration with a close ecosystem
Challenge: leveraging wasted and underutilised resources
Online Waste Exchange Platform
Prototypical pattern
Challenge: a lot of what one person calls 'waste' or 'residuals' is useful for someone else
Solution: Create an e-commerce marketplace to match supply and demand
Product Recycling
Challenge: Much of the value still contained in a product's materials is lost after the use phase when products go into landfills or incinerators
Solution: processing discarded products for the purpose of extracting secondary raw materials
Modular pattern
Remanufacturing
Modular pattern
Challenge: fast-placed replacement of many valuable products
Solution: transforming used products to a 'like-new' state by restoring original product functionalities
Repairing
Challenge: products are thrown away even if only their parts are damaged
Solution: prolonging the life of goods by fixing the parts that are damaged or worn out
Modular pattern
Reusing
Modular pattern
Challenge: Products are become unwanted because they are obsolete or no longer fashionable
Solution: selling, giving to someone else, extending a single-use item to multiple-use, repurposing
Take-Back Management
Modular pattern
Solution: Implement channels that minimise the costs of collecting products or parts from customers, distributors, or other intermediaries
Challenge: users may not be willing to return used or no longer wanted products on a voluntary basis
Upgrading
Solution: anticipating the replacement of obsolete components with new technological innovations and aesthetic features.
Challenge: well-functioning products become obsolete and unattractive
Modular pattern
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