Circular Chain Course

The course is eligible for all businesses that operate with a circular business model or are planning to implement a circular business model.

We worked with businesses in several sectors:

+ Appliances

+ Consumer products

+ Built environment

+ Mobility

+ Robotics

+ Healthcare

+ Interior

You name it!

Is the Circular Chain Course right for you??

• Do you have a circular business proposition, and are looking to integrate chain partners?
• Are you looking to lower your financing need through strategic partnerships?
• Do you want to set up a collective business case, but don’t know where to start?
• Are you in conversation with you chain partners, but don’t know what to offer them?

If you answered yes to x or more questions, the Circular Chain Course is right for you!

The circular Chain Course is NOT for you if you

• Do not yet have a circular business proposition
• Are not willing to be transparent to your chain partners

Not sure if your business is a good fit? Fill in the Quickscan here or reach out to us on info@cise.network.

100% money back guarantee!

If you do 2 modules, and send us your homework, and you truly derived no value, you get your money back!

In the circular future you’re not a supplier anymore

If you’ve started the journey into circular services, you know that the most fundamental change (compared to linear business): you’re not a supplier anymore!

You’ve become a partner to your customer.

You’ve taken responsibilities from your customers onto your own shoulders.

You are working to deliver the best-of-the-best experience to your customer.

However, to deliver the most amazing, circular experience to your customer, you need to collaborate with value chain partners. Best-of-the-best product- & part suppliers, repair services, data and monitoring services, logistic partners and so on.

You need to strategically connect your CISE Chain.

This goes beyond just partnerships. This is about resilient networks, reciprocative circular service networks. Risks are shared. Revenues also.

Why would you connect your CISE Chain?

Here are a few reasons:

• Delivering even more awesome service experience to your customers,
• Building a resilient business case by strategic chain connections,
• Extending and creating new funding opportunities to attract capital to grow,
• Improving sustainability by continuing the extend the lifetime of your product,
• Using each other’s networks to extend and reach new target markets,

+ The CiSe solution is a complete financial-legal and digital structure for chains that collaborate to offer a circular service.

+ The core foundation is the CiSe Participation Agreement. Here, cooperation between chain partners is agreed upon and the sharing of revenues is aligned.

+ Collaboration not only strengthens the business case, but also improves the possibilities to attract capital to grow.

+ With this CiSe structure we have simplified and standardized Project Finance techniques to make them accessible for circular chain projects.

+ With CiSe we aim to unlock financing that could not be unlocked before.

What financiers have said about the CiSe structure:

“Where individual PaaS financing requests are often risky, the CiSe structure ensures spreading to a complete project with multiple PaaS financings. The cash flow and contracts are set up in a solid manner.”

– ABN AMRO

“An innovative product, which resembles mini-project finance, which a bank can easily connect to. The risk profile of the project is lower, because the cash flows first flow into the project vehicle before they flow into the underlying business.”

– Credit Analyst, Rabobank

In the Circular Chain Course, we guide you step-by-step how-to setup your own circular value chain collaboration, all legal documentation to support it and build a solid collective business case around it.

• The course consists of 6 modules, with each module consisting of explainer videos and engaging worksheets,
• 3 live coaching sessions with the trainers and legal-, tech- and financial advisers,

A new module is shared every week. Every other week, you have the opportunity to ask all your burning questions in the live Q&A sessions with the trainers and experts. Besides the live Q&A’s you can write your questions in the online course area, where the coaches and experts will answer your questions.

What you’ll learn in the modules:

 Module 1: you will select your key value chain partners by plotting your own CISE Network, choosing the partners that are most strategic, and formulate your pitch to convince them to collaborate.

Module 2: you’ll set up your collective business model to set incentives right. Circularity, longevity and collaboration is rewarded and waste and linear practices are avoided.

Module 3: we will dive into the legal support documents you’ll need to set up the chain collaboration. Core to this module is the exploration of the CiSe Participation Agreement and how you can use it for your business.

Module 4: this module is about payment automation software and data sharing.

Module 5: is about the Code of Conduct, a legal document we created to ensure that all companies that enter the CiSe Network are working towards circularity. Providing a product-as-a-service, doesn’t mean this is a circular service.

Module 6: we will introduce CiSe Chain Finance. We will look through the eye of an external financier/investor and answer the following questions: How can your CiSe network be financed? What are the advantages of CiSe to financiers? How are risks mitigated in the CiSe structure?

• 3 live Q&A’s with Elisa and other experts
• Access to a one-of-a-kind network of circular founders, financiers and legal experts
• The templates you need to set up your collective business case

+ But how do I know if I’m ready?

Not sure if your business is ready to connect your circular value chain? Take the free Quickscan to find out!

+ What if chain partners won’t join?

Getting your chain partners along in your circular journey is not always easy. Showing them your solid business case can be just the thing they need to get them onboard!

+ My business case is negative. Does the course help me with this?

The CiSe structure is not a magic pill that turns all business cases positive… However, sharing investments, risks and revenues with you chain partners can make your case potentially look brighter.

+ I don’t know, it sounds like too much hassle…

Setting up your circular chain collaboration takes time, indeed. But see it as an investment. The potential time and hassle it can safe you in the future is enormous!

+ What’s in it for me?

You can earn more by wasting less.

Besides complying with stricter regulations and increasing customer demand for businesses to operate within planetary boundaries, circular business models bring financial opportunities too.

+ Low on budget, is it worth the investment?

We made this course for this exact reason, to bring our expertise to all circular entrepreneurs.

Contact: Bas Slootman – bas.slootman@cise.network

Start: April 28th

Duration: 9 weeks – 6 modules & 3 Q&A’s

Investment: €2499 excl. VAT

+ We have been working with businesses in smartphones, washing machines, speedgates, elevators, clothing, lasting flowers, baby products, but also buildings, e-bikes, etc.

With a solid business case, strong contracts and unlocked financing potential these entrepreneurs can now do what they are good at: scaling their circular impact.

Through this course, we can also help you do what you are good at!