OUR MISSION AND VISION
OUR MISSION at essensus is to drive the journey towards enhanced maturity in the systemic integration of sustainability into product development and related process. By doing that, OUR VISION is to mature the global abilities to sustain.
MEET THE TEAM
Giácomo Parolin
Senior consultant
Giácomo’s personal mission is to change the world by helping companies design more sustainable products, processes and technologies. He has a PhD in design for sustainability and 6 years of experience working with large manufacturing companies in their sustainability journey. He believes essensus is the pathway to empower businesses in tackling the world’s most challenging […]
Daniela C. A. Pigosso
Co-Founder
Professor of design for absolute sustainability, Daniela has been working with the development and application of the maturity model that forms the basis of essensus’ approach since 2006. Daniela sees at essensus an opportunity to have a significant effect on maturing the companies’ abilities to sustain based on value creation through leading-edge knowledge research and […]
Tim C. McAloone
Co-Founder
Professor of product/service-systems, ecodesign expert, and deeply dedicated to sustainability, Tim has over 25 years of experience in the field of design. His teaching, research and innovation activities are strongly based on industry collaboration. Tim’s motivation is for essensus to chart a clear way to ensure that sustainability is integrated systematically into product development.OUR CORE COMPETENCIES
We have consolidated and systematized state-of-the-art best practices for sustainability integration into business, product development, R&D, and related processes. Here are some examples:
ECODESIGN FOR ABSOLUTE SUSTAINABILITY
Bring your product portfolio within planetary boundaries
NEW BUSINESS MODELS
Rethink your business models by exploring cutting-edge insights in the product-service spectrum
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
Bring economic, social and environmental issues to the conception of your products
ECO-INNOVATION
Put sustainability and innovation to collectively generate business benefits
CIRCULAR ECONOMY AND VALUE-CHAIN
Get ready for the transition from linear to closed-loop thinking.
TRADE-OFF MANAGEMENT
Understand and navigate trade-offs in your product and technology development processes
LIFE CYCLE THINKING
Get the big picture with systemic solutions that carefully looks into all product's life cycle stages
SOCIAL INNOVATION
Create shared value by focusing on deep social issues
LEADING-EDGE KNOWLEDGE THROUGH STRONG RESEARCH FOUNDATION
essensus is based on leading-edge knowledge and research. Our aim is to continuously enhance the link between application and research, having a positive impact on society.
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TESTIMONIALS FROM ACADEMIA
Check out what researchers engaged in sustainability integration think about our approach
The approach of essensus is based on an expansion of a maturity model developed by Daniela Pigosso during her PhD under my supervision. The goal was to develop a practical and easy-to-apply approach with strong scientific basis, in order to integrate sustainability into the product development process and other related business processes of companies. The research was a great success, with strong application in industry and international visibility.
I have been closely following the development of the maturity model behind essensus. I was impressed by its solid scientific basis, the number of case studies taken into account and the testing in practice, before the method has been released. This is an approach which will contribute to make research results of universities much more readily applicable in practice as well, particularly because it is inspiring rather than prescriptive.