1. The Role of Disruptive Technology for a Circular Economy: Value Added by Data-Driven Intelligence
Sankar Sivarajah & Jyoti Mishra

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3. Circular Economy: Making it happen!
Collaboration
Rethinking incentives
Technology
Leading by example and driving up scale fast
Access to financing
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4. Disruptive technologies?
“”A disruptive technology is one that displaces an established technology and shakes up the industry or a ground-breaking product that creates a completely new industry.”  
Clayton M. Christensen
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Research Rationale
Extant literature (Urbinati et al., 2017; Heyes et al., 2017) highlights CE from:
an industrial ecology
social sciences
product design view point
However…
“Lack of research looking at the role of digital technologies such as intelligent assets and connectivity for the proliferation of CE (Morlet et al., 2016; Despeisse et al., 2017)…”
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Circular Economy
Adaptive Supply Chain
Digital Technology
Research Aim
To explore if data-driven intelligence through the use of IoT could enable reduction of manufacturing waste by enabling a more targeted delivery of customised products that specify user needs in different context across the product/service lifecycle…
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9. Characteristics of Adaptive Supply Chain Execution
Product
Lifecycle
Management
Item Level
Inventory
Tracking
Automatic
Receiving
Intelligent
Shelf
Automatic
Checkout
Security
Last
50 yards
Product
Related
On Sell
Waste
Disposal
Raw Material
Manufacturer
Manufacturer
Finished Goods / Warehouse
Distribution
Retailer
In Store
Reactive
Marketing
Fleet
Maintenance
& Repairs
Improved
Production
Planning
Asset
Tracking
Proof of
Delivery
Vendor
Managed
Inventory
In Store
Availability
Plant
Maintenance
Characteristics of Adaptive Supply Chain Execution
Real Time
Proactive
Intelligent
Collaborative
Visible
Event Driven
Responsive
Coordinated
Closed-Loop
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10. Traditional Linear Supply Chain vs. Digitally Enabled Supply ecosystem
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12. Winnow: Data-backed stories that drive change
The Need - each year an estimated USD 100 billion worth of food is thrown away by the hospitality industry, mainly due to overproduction.
The Solution - a simple way of collecting data on food waste in commercial kitchens
What makes this smarter - Winnow analytics correlates food waste to sales directly connecting  behaviour changes to increased profits.  
The result - restaurants that use this system have cut food waste by between %, leading to increases profit margins by 50% or more as well as reducing carbon emissions
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Future Directions
Development of conceptual framework
Identification of potential case studies – current talks with Morrisons
Validate the framework
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14. Faculty of Management and Law THANK YOU