I Dare You to Measure THIS in Your Circular Strategy …
Author: Charlaine Baartjes

Can you prove you’ve gone 🌌 (Circular?)

Not with glossy brochures. Not with a “green” product line.

With numbers. Cold, hard, regenerative numbers. Yes, please.

Here’s your Circular Innovation Dare:
Measure these and tell me you’re not sweating a little:
1️⃣ Number of Circular Innovations per Year
New (modular) products, processes, or services designed to prevent waste before it happens.
(Don’t tell me about your recycling bin. That’s cute, but it’s not innovation.)
2️⃣ Circular Knowledge Retention Rate
% of waste prevention know-how embedded into training, SOPs, and onboarding.
If it’s not documented, it leaves with Karen when she retires.
3️⃣ Idea-to-Implementation Time
Average time for a waste prevention idea to go from “Hmm…” to “Hell yes, it works.”
Spoiler: Years = you’re not innovating, you’re hibernating. 🐻
4️⃣ Stakeholder Engagement Score
How well you bring suppliers, clients, and regulators into your waste prevention party.
Hint: If they’re not dancing, the music’s wrong.

💡 Circularity isn’t a label. It’s a living, breathing capacity to keep innovating, year after year, without slipping back into linear autopilot.

So… do you have the courage to measure? Do you measure something different?
Better yet, are you sharing your results? Maybe somebody else “catches” what you have. A circular conscience.

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