BSR Insight | Re-Scaling for the New Local
In the next decade, rapidly growing urban regions will need redesigned infrastructure, goods, and services to match peoples’ needs and work within planetary constraints. New efforts to track well-being and happiness, ecological systems under stress, and community and culture shocks like forced water restrictions and food-safety scares are driving people to pursue more resilient solutions such as low-impact housing, off-grid water and energy, seed-sharing programs, and community-supported agriculture.
In this environment, tomorrow’s business models will look radically different. But it won’t mean starting from scratch. Large food retailers, for example, could re-envision their sites as cooperative spaces for multiple kinds of food systems, including new modes of retail, distribution, storage, and preparation as well as for communities interested in sharing the use of productive land.
How will your company adapt to this future scenario? At a two-hour working session during the BSR Conference 2011, we will challenge participants to redesign current business models, products, approaches to consumer engagement, and more to explore how to create value and be relevant in this future scenario.
About the Author(s)
Linda Hwang, Former Manager, Research
Topics
Community Engagement & Development, Consumer Products, Energy, Environment, Food, Beverage & Agriculture, Health Care, Information & Communications Technology, Toxicity & Product Design, Transportation, Travel & Tourism, Water
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