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Circular Design Guide (Ellen MacArthur Foundation + IDEO)

Tool	Scope
Define your challenge	Clearly articulate the circularity challenge you are looking to solve
Find circular opportunities	Start with an achievable small initiative that can scale over time
Building Teams	Building multidisciplinary teams with collaboration in mind
Circular Buy-in	Understand your stakeholders and develop strategies for engagement
Circular Business Model	Develop your business model from a circular design perspective
Create Brand promise	Build circular proposition that reinforce your brand promise

DIY, Development Impact & You (Nesta)

Tool	Scope
SWOT analysis	I want to develop a clear plan by evaluating how I am doing and what my options are.
Business model canvas	I want to develop a clear plan on how to grow my idea into something bigger.
Building Partnerships map	I want to develop a clear plan for working with other groups that have the same vision as me.
Learning loop	I want to develop a clear plan by improving upon what I’ve done before.
Experience tour	I want to clarify my priorities by learning from first hand experiences
Problem definition	I want to clarify my priorities by focusing on key critical issues.
Causes diagram	I want to clarify my priorities by breaking down a complex issue.
Theory of change	I want to clarify my priorities by defining my goals and the path to reach them.
People shadowing	I want to collect inputs from others by observing and learning from everyday life.
Interview guide	I want to collect inputs from others in a conversation that uncovers their perspective.
Question ladder	I want to collect inputs from others by getting to the heart of what motivates people.
Storyworld	I want to collect inputs from others to ensure my work is relevant to the people I’m working for.
People & connections map	I want to know the people I'm working with by clarifying relationships between stakeholders.
Target group	I want to know the people I'm working with by better defining who I am trying to reach.
Personas	I want to know the people I'm working with by visualising their key characteristics.
Promises & potential map	I want to know the people I'm working with by defining how my offering is new to them.

Systemic Design Toolkit (Namahn + Shiftn)

Tool	Scope
Value proposition	Helping the stakeholders articulate the common desired future and the intended value creation.
Intervention strategy	Exploring possible ideas for intervening on the leverage points. Empowering the ideas by working with the paradoxes in the system.

Service Design Toolkit (Namahn)

Tool	Scope
Lotus blossom	Find inspiration by looking at how others fulfil requirements.
Idea selection - COCD BOX	Hang all the solution ideas up and let the participants vote using different colour stickers. Sort the ideas on the poster and decide together which ideas you want to further develop
Serious play scenario	Develop the user story by means of “serious play”. Keep in mind the various phases: notice, trigger, consider and decide, the use itself, help needed, relationship building after usage. Use this poster to draw out the service experience and show what is said using speech bubbles.
Users' journeys	USERS: Needs, activities. SERVICE PROVISION: touch points, answers.

Making Sense Toolkit (Fab Lab Barcelona, WAAG Society, NL Dundee University, UK EC Joint Research Center, BE PEN Educational Network, KS)

Tool	Scope
Community lever indicators	Encourages participants to choose collaboratively what information will be collected, and how.
Sensing strategies canvas	Helps communities co-create plans for deploying their sensors and capturing data.
Calibration	To ensure that the data is valid and calibrated against scientifically reliable measures. The calibration process is seen as an ongoing methodological process that is constantly checked, verified, adopted and updated.
Targeted measurements	Allows peopole to embed themselves within a community, and become more agile and fluid by capturing data in every corner of the city.
Sensing guides	Helps everyone keep track of the sensing activities; helps with the basic operation and maintenance of the sensor, serving as a basic field guide on how to operate the technology.
Data Journals	To hard sensor data
Operation manuals	To helping participants get back on track should any problems occur with the technology or the process.
Open hardware	To find and use cheap and versatile sensing equipment.

Product-Service Systems Toolkit (PSS Toolkit) (• Brussels Environment, Ecores, Groupe One, Strategic Design Scenarios and Egerie Research)

Tool	Scope
Workshop on key themes emerged from the assessments	To identify a set of strategic challenges which can integrate the functional economy model in an appropriate way and facilitate the transition to a sustainable and resilient city
Business cases	Help to start the conversation at the incubation workshops by offering a list of existing solutions to be hybridised.

Circular Economy Playbook (Sitra, Technology Industries of Finland and Accenture)

Tool	Scope
Capability maturity assessment	For assessing your company’s maturity in the circular capabilities and identifying which capabilities to develop internally and which ones to outsource for external partners
Technology maturity assessment	For assessing your company’s maturity in the technologies enabling circular business models, and prioritising those for development.