Managing Sustainable Products:
Organisational considerations in product and service development

Towards Sustainable
Product Design 7
7th International Conference
28-29 October 2002
British Standards Institution
Chiswick, London, UK

Reviewed papers: five parallel sessions
Programme and Abstracts

Time
Topics, Chairmen, Papers and Authors

Strategy


Chair: Professor Martin Charter, Coordinator, The Centre for Sustainable Design, UK

Organisational design 

Chair: Professor David Wheeler
Erivan K Haub Professor of Business and Sustainability
Schulich School of Business
York University
Canada

Management


Chair: Professor Ken Peattie, Director
Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability & Society (BRASS)
Cardiff University
UK

Product development 1

Chair: Gunnel Wisén
Vice President - Sustainability Affairs Sweden
ABB
Sweden

Product development 2

Chair: Raymond Nyer, Director
RNC Conseil
France

2:00 - 2:25

Developing and offering sustainable solutions: report on a cross-industry
exploration of integrated solutions

Frank van der Zwan, Cranfield University, UK

Tracy Bhamra, Cranfield University, UK

Organisational Considerations in Product and Service Development

Keith Melton, Institute for Sustainable Development in Business, Nottingham Trent University, UK

Kati Stoor, 3663 Limited, UK


Product orientated environmental management in the Dutch furniture industry

Diana de Graaf, BECO, Netherlands

Heleen Pinkse, BECO, Netherlands

 

"State of the art" in Product Development and Eco-design in the Baltic States' Industry

Rasa Uselyte, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania

Inga Belmane, International Institute of Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University, Sweden

2:25 - 2:50

Managing Sustainable Product Development

Andy Wales, Interface, UK

Organisational aspects of the application of Sustainable Product Development and Design

Anna Simonsson, BSI, UK

Mark Barthel, BSI, UK

Development of a tool to introduce product oriented environmental management at SME's

Diana de Graaf, BECO, Netherlands

Managing sustainability in electronics companies

Ab Stevels, Philips consumer electronics, Netherlands

Casper Boks, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

A Flexible Framework for Integrating Sustainable Design

Ralf Nielsen, Five Winds International, Canada

Andrea J. Russell, Five Winds International, Canada
2:50 - 3:15

Designing a Sustainability Programme: Experiences from Philips Semiconductors

Chris Sherwin, Philips, Netherlands

Hans van der Wel, Philips, Netherlands

Leo Klerks, Philips, Netherlands

Organisational Structure to Optimise Product Environmental Performance

Tim Carey, Hewlett-Packard Printer
Supplies, US

Lynn Laszewski, Hewlett-Packard Printer Supplies, US

Integration between EMS and the EPD system in ABB Italy

Gianluca Donato, ABB Service Srl, Italy

Toward sustainable rail products - Examples from Bombardier Transportation

Åsa Ander, Bombardier Transportation, Sweden

SustainNovation! Analysing the success and failure of sustainability innovations

Kai Hockerts, INSEAD, France

 

3:15 - 3:40

Design for Equity: Incorporating standardised social responsibility into product design and development

Callie Whitfield, Research Assistant, University of Florida, US

The GSK Approach to EHS Management and the GSK Eco-DesignToolkit

Virginia L. Cunningham, US GlaxoSmithKline

David C. Constable, GlaxoSmithKline, US

Alan Curzons, GlaxoSmithKline, UK

Successful approaches to sustainable products

Tom Cochrane, Envirowise, UK

Multinational companies and the supply of sustainable products

Gary Parker, INCPEN, UK

 

An assessment model for sustainable product development

George Howarth, Smith & Nephew

M. Hadfield, Smith & Nephew, UK

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3:40 - 4:05

Changing The Game: Sustainability Without Compromise

Darrell Mann, University of Bath, UK

Developing Sustainable Products & Services

Dorothy Maxwell, Enterprise Ireland, Ireland

The Utilisation of eco-design practices within Brazilian SME companies

Reidson Pereira Gouvinhas, PEP/UFRN, Brazil

Gunther Josuá Costa, PEP/ UFRN, Brazil

 

Organisational Aspects of
Successful Packaging Eco-Design


Mark Hilton, Enviros Aspinwall, UK

Robert Holdway, Giraffe, UK




Terry Foecke, Materials Productivity LLC, US

4:05 - 4:30

Design-for-sustainability as a
creative process of change for innovation, wealth generation and brand reputation


Josephine Green, Philips, Netherlands

Simona Rocchi, Philips, Netherlands

Integrating Stewardship and Development: A Multidisciplinary, Systems Approach in Reducing Products to Practice

JohnPaul Kusz, Center for Sustainable Enterprise, US

 

Product orientated environmental management system in the Dutch plastic recycling industry

Lonneke Baas, BECO, Netherlands

Sustainable Product Design for SMEs: A Design Framework

G Kane, University of Teesside, US

G Street, University of Teesside, US

 

4:30 - 4:55
Are service systems worth our interest

Kai Hockerts, INSEAD, France

When a company's walk is greener than its talk: the development of secretly environmentally friendly
products


Trudy Heller, Executive Education for the Environment, US
Eco-design in the Environmental Management System, a survey amongst the EMAS certified enterprises

Wolfgang Wimmer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Managing the Life Cycle for Sustainable Construction Products

Suzy Edwards, Centre for Sustainable Construction, UK
Participatory learning process in the development of sustainable products

Bernd Siebenhuner, Oldenburg University

Esther Hoffmann, Institute for ecological economy research, Germany
4:55 - 5:20

Using scenario design as a strategy development tool: integrating global efficiencies with local effect

Stephen Evans, Cranfield University, UK

Andrew Burns, Cranfield University, UK

Simona Masschi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Industrial products from renewable resources: management of change and new partnership development as a precondition for successful implementation

S. Geissler, Austrian Institute of Applied Ecology

E. Ganglberger, Austrian Institute of Applied Ecology

T. Bechtold, Austrian Institute of Applied Ecology

A. Hartl, Austrian Institute of Applied Ecology

O. Schütz, Austrian Institute of Applied Ecology, Austria

Elements of product service systems

Trond Lamvik, SINTEF, Norway
Evolutionary Perspectives on Adoption of the Eco-service Concept

M. B. Cook, Cranfield University

T.A. Bhamra, Cranfield University, UK
The Relation of Aesthetic and Sustainability in Product Design

Seyed Javad Zafarmand, Chiba University

Kazuo Sugiyama, Chiba University, Japan
5:20 - 5:45

 

Organisational considerations in product and service development

Cynthia Cann, University of Scranton

Michael Cann, University of Scranton, US

Integrated chain management applied to the coffee chain: a pilot for Costa Rica and the Netherlands

Myrtille Danse, CEGESTI, Costa Rica

 

 

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