HFES Sustainability & Product Design Technical Group Webinar: Designing sustainable North Star: a design approach to drive sustainable product innovation

Presented by the Sustainability Technical Group

In this session, a newly developed approach to drive and guide sustainable product design innovation will be presented: the Sustainable North Star. This approach combines different capabilities and expertise areas in one single process. From Lifecycle assessment to User Research and Value Chain Mapping. Through a tangible case study, this session will provide actionable guidance on how to define a long-term sustainable vision for a product, translate it into tangible proofs of concept and derive a roadmap from it. Find out more about this approach here: http://www.accenture.com/susta...

Francesco de Fazio 

Francesco De Fazio is a Senior Sustainability Design Engineer at Accenture Industry X. Prior to joining Accenture, he worked as Circular Design Engineer at Philips and as Researcher at Delft University of Technology. In his current role, Francesco supports companies in bridging the gap between corporate-level sustainability strategy in product innovation roadmaps, design requirements and solutions development. He would like to present about the Sustainable North Star approach. This is a newly developed sustainable product innovation approach, which combines different capabilities and expertise areas in one single process. From Lifecycle assessment to user research and value chain mapping The goal of this approach is to define a long term sustainable vision for a product, translate it into tangible proof of concepts and then derive a roadmap from it. He and his team thoroughly documented this approach in an extensive design guide, publicly available at: http://www.accenture.com/sustainablenorthstarguide