Sustainable futures
Right now, every organisation on the planet is going through a transformation to respond to the ecological crisis. This transformation is highly complex, but it is fundamentally human.
Organisations are made by, of and for humans. How we navigate the transformation together is critical. It requires us to employ the best human qualities, empathy, collaboration and imagination.
Collectively, we must change our ways of acting, thinking and being to address the damage we are doing to our planet.
This change has to run much deeper than a single sustainability product, service, or claim — it should be essential to everything we do and bring to market.
How we can help
To create a sustainable future, we must rigorously reimagine how we live and work. We do this by design.
Reimagining our offers
Unlike other innovations, new sustainable solutions don’t automatically fit into the fabric of our value chains, organisations, economy or our lives.
Sustainable solutions need to inspire, engage and support people to adopt and use them — to change habits or behaviours.
That also means these offers need to be deeply thought through to reorient teams, processes, infrastructure and material streams. That is where our legacy in service design comes in. Services are the connective tissue between the sustainable offer to the customer and what is needed to deliver it operationally.
Reimagining our organisations
To transition to a sustainable pathway, sustainability has to break out of the ESG team and become a collective priority — Every job needs to be a sustainability job.
Design and innovation has the power to unlock solutions and enable sustainability to permeate mainstream business where more analytical approaches fail.
We approach organisational transformation for sustainability in three modes of action:
Understand
Gain a deep shared knowledge of the new reality and the challenges ahead across the entire organisation.
Accelerate
Design and implement high-impact solutions – fast.
Prepare
Get ready for a volatile world and navigate possible futures innovatively.
The three velocities of a sustainable transformation.
How to act on sustainability by bringing the best that design and innovation have to offer.
Unlocking circularity
An overview of Livework’s understanding of the challenges transitioning to a circular organisation — to inform discussion on the approach for steps forward.
“These are the kinds of problems you can’t manage your way out of. You have to design your way out of them.”
“These are the kinds of problems you can’t manage your way out of. You have to design your way out of them.”
- Marty Neumeier
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The future emerges directly from the things we design. We have to design ecologically.
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As Lead Sustainability for Livework, Anna coordinates across clients and projects to ensure our designers structurally update their mental models, approach and toolset to integrate the ecological perspective.
As a pragmatic environmentalist, she draws from over 6 years of experience in complex service/system innovation projects and transformation programs at companies like JPMorgan and Adidas. She leverages this background to work as a catalyst 0f change for the better.
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Customer Centricity
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Innovation by Design
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Sustainable Futures
What are the best strategies and solutions that will enable sustainable transformation for us?