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4. Manage your circular performance and impact

Translate results into roadmap by analyzing results, prioritizing interventions, applying improvements and establishing effective governance structures.

4.1 Analyze results
4.2 Prioritize actions
4.3 Develop your action roadmap
4.4 Establish governance for circular value

4.1 Analyze results

Contextualize your circular performance assessment results to identify patterns, inefficiencies and opportunities for action. Compare results across business units, product lines and value chain stages to identify where targeted interventions can drive the greatest impact. Tracking progress over time allows for thorough evaluations, strategy adjustments and staying in line with internal targets and industry levels.

4.2 Prioritize actions

Integrate insights from the circular performance assessment and the identified impacts, risks, and opportunities (IROs) to rank potential actions according to their relevance, feasibility, and contribution to organizational objectives. Consider both immediate and long-term value, including cost savings, risk reduction, and innovation potential. This prioritization process enables organizations to focus on high-impact, high-value interventions, providing a clear foundation for the action roadmap.

4.3 Develop your action roadmap

Identify hotspots and areas of strategic importance based on your organization’s exposure to circular risks and opportunities, enabling you to focus efforts on high-impact areas and developing actionable roadmaps to improve circular performance. The combination of the analysis and prioritization sections culminates in the formulation of targets and tangible actions that ensure transparency and accountability.

Departments to involve
External partners
Further considerations
Example targets
Example actions

Reduce linear inflow by replacing it with renewable inflow

Sustainability, procurement, product design, product management and R&D
Suppliers and certification bodies
Suppliers
Launch a new fashion line using natural materials by 2030
Explore how certificates consider sustainability and land use and the functionality of certified materials for purpose

Reduce linear inflow by replacing it with secondary inflow

Sustainability, procurement, product design, product management and R&D
Suppliers
Sustainability, technical feasibility, acceptance by customer and functionality
Product category X should contain 40% recycled content by 2027
  • Discuss technical feasibility and availability with supplier
  • Switch supplier if needed

Increase recovery potential by circular product design (for modularity, disassembly, mono-material biodegradability

Sustainability, product design, service and maintenance, product management and R&D
Clients and suppliers
Technical feasibility and economic viability
60% of bottles produced consist of mono-materials by 2027
  • Change supplier
  • Set up research with supplier

4.4 Establish governance for circular value

Define strategic priorities, roles and responsibilities, cross-functional collaboration, targets, accountability mechanisms and data structures to embed circularity as a shared organizational priority rather than confining it to sustainability teams. Monitor progress via regular reporting, performance reviews and corrective actions, and maintain comprehensive internal documentation.

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