Information as Key for Strategic Stakeholder Opportunities Within the Value Chain of an Advanced Circular Economy
摘要
Designing resource-efficient products, aided by digitalization, offers additional potential to consider improved circularity of the product for the whole value chain. Distribution of data is crucial to provide key information for relevant stakeholders, to guide and support their decisions regarding the product of interest. Stakeholders have different interests in certain sets of data. Streamlining the data exchange will lead to improved efficiency for all involved parties. Therefore, the lifecycle of products has to be examined; the most relevant stakeholders, with their ability to extract and distribute data, are identified; and who has an interest in combined datasets from all stakeholders at what point in time were investigated. Hence, combining datasets has to take into account that time is a factor. Loss of information over time, as well as the necessary data-velocity, are important to provide valid datasets. The result is a schematic overview of the data and information exchange between stakeholders over time. Additional stakeholder data sets are defined and who is involved in providing data to X. Tailored information will be generated out of those data sets, depending on individual interests. The Stakeholder-Datasets are structured in static and dynamic information, potential loss of information, and information velocity between stakeholders. The mobility value chain is used to schematically show which stakeholders need which data set as information, in order to utilize potential that has not yet been tapped. To integrate these results along recent research, the product passport model is applied. The developed schematics are still on a meta-level and shall provide a procedure for further research based on case studies to enhance the advanced circular economy (Definition: Advanced Circular Economy: A circular economy supported with digitized information systems to aid optimization of the whole value chain in the economic system).