by Leigh Baker | 11th Jul 2022 | Business for Good, Leigh Baker
Process efficiencyOR systems optimisation? Approx. time to read: 10 minutes “More of the same, faster!” has been the primary approach to production efficiency for centuries, from factory production lines to wide-acre mono-crop farming. And the focus of production...
by Leigh Baker | 4th Jul 2022 | Business for Good, Leigh Baker
Engineering and chemistryOR physics and biology? Approx. time to read: 7 minutes From the earliest blacksmith shops and soap makers to 20th century steel foundries, cement plants and Kevlar manufacturing – a surprising number of global production technologies...
by Leigh Baker | 27th Jun 2022 | Business for Good, Leigh Baker
Focus on delivering products OR delivering service and value? Approx. time to read: 8 minutes The “everybody knows” way to grow a business in the 20th century was to grow product sales – and once you were in the market to continuously develop new...
by Leigh Baker | 21st Jun 2022 | Business for Good, Leigh Baker
From 1-Way Supply “Chains” TO Circular Systems Approx. time to read: 8 minutes Since the Industrial Revolution (if not further) the way business has thought about products and services has been basically 1-way – dig materials up, make a product, sell it to someone,...
by Leigh Baker | 2nd Jun 2022 | Business for Good, Leigh Baker
Less waste, less toxic, less badOR fully good? Approx. time to read: 13 minutes The design paradigm of 20th century industrial systems is pretty much “1-way”: mine/make/use/dump [repeat] Waste has been a standard part of making products and delivering...
by Leigh Baker | 26th May 2022 | Business for Good, Leigh Baker
Doing good – cost and compliance and charity OR a world of opportunity? Approx. time to read: 7 minutes When you start looking at today’s global social and environmental challenges through the lens of strategic opportunity then a wealth of business potential...
