**Dimensions** * *[[Tool Attributes]]:* #framework #use-case #article #linked-toolkit #practice-based #research-driven #sequenced-tools #use-case * *[[origin]]:* #practice-based #research-driven * *[[Stakeholders]]:* #private-sector #product-designers * *[[Value Generation]]:* #circular-economy #life-cycle * *[[Sustainability Strategy]]:* #piloting #product-innovation #service-innovation #design-thinking #capacity-building #strategic-planning #impact-analysis #reporting-progress [Manufacturing SMEs doing it for themselves: developing, testing and piloting an online sustainability and eco-innovation toolkit for SMEs](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19397038.2019.1685609?journalCode=tsue20) An online sustainability #framework that incorporates the views of owner-managers together with a set of best practice environmental tools and training are presented as part of this article. - **Life Cycle Management** (LCM) tools, to measure environmental impact of products, services and activities, which include: - Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for the most comprehensive and widely accepted environmental methodology measurement tool - Life Cycle Costing (LCC) to evaluate the environmental cost of a product or service over its entire life - Carbon Foot printing as the most widely used sustain- ability measurement method - **Design for Environment methods** (DfE) to guide the design process towards more sustainable products, services and processes - **Environmental Management Systems** (EMS) to provide a framework to guide and implement best practice environmental management - **Corporate Social Responsibility** (CSR) assessment and reporting tools to create awareness of the benefits and gain a competitive advantage by articulating sustainable business practices - **Product service systems** (PSS) tools to explore new business models - tools to **audit** and measure environmental indicators (waste, water and energy) - tools to support environmental **legislation compliance** - Eco-Innovation and sustainability **training** to support all the above ![[Previous Versions/Version 1/Files/Pasted image 20210813145925.png]] ![[Previous Versions/Version 1/Files/Pasted image 20210813150118.png]] [[Previous Versions/Version 1/3 - collections/business models and business design]] [[Previous Versions/Version 1/3 - collections/collaboration and strategy tools]]