Een retail guide voor duurzame business modellen | 2023

Short summary

This expert group aims to enable its participants in realizing business ideas to improve their impact on the value chain. This expert group will develop a step-by-step approach for you as an expert to transform your business models.We strongly believe in the balance between intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship as this combines creativity and best practices in efficiency. While enabling our experts to improve their impact on the value chain, we will develop a bluepaper that will inspire thought-leadership.

This expert group is chaired by Boer & Croon (a management consultancy) and hosted by Avanade (an IT consultancy), and Microsoft (a software developer). Interested to learn how this combination will benefit the expert group? Join our journey towards a sustainable value chain for retail.

Research question

How can we develop business models that result in a sustainable end-to-end value chain?

Research clarification

Our approach to this expert group will be pragmatic. We aim to provide our experts with the tools to realise change in their expertise of the value chain. From this we obtain the best practices which will be the baseline to develop a research paper, together.

To structure our approach towards solving the research question, we will work together towards identifying sub-questions. Sub-questions that could be covered entail, but are not limited to:

• How to evaluate and guarantee a transparent value/supply chain?
• How to design an end-to-end process that is sustainable?
• How can we reduce and reuse waste?
• How can we better distribute products with a reduced impact on the environment?
• How to reduce the impact of packaging materials?
• What systematic changes are needed in the value chain?
• How do we measure the success of a sustainable end-to-end value chain?

Research approach:

In April we will, together, commence on a journey where, through six physical sessions, the various parts of an end-to-end value chain will be analyzed. Through the analysis of the end-to-end value chain, we will evaluate the impact of sustainability on its specific parts. This will be done through use cases that clarify underlying developments and current challenges, we expect the use cases to be submitted by the experts and a shared effort in the writing of the thought-leadership paper.

Above all, we aim to share knowledge, enrich our network and work towards a shared vision of sustainable end-to-end chains.