nextcycle is your outsourced innovation department for sustainable growth and a reliable partner in planning and executing resilient strategies. Resilience is the ability to stay innovative in times of crises – it is a systems ability to quickly regenerate from shocks like financial crisis or resource scarcity.
Profile
Chris is founder and head of nextcycle. With an academic background in corporate management and economics his primary focus is in the field of sustainability and innovation. Since 2009 he has worked with several companies from various industries such as Philips Design, Ernst & Young, BASF SE or Recarbon Deutschland GmbH. Chris lectured sustainable innovation at Fontys Business School Venlo, Netherlands and design thinking at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. Since his publication of the Global Waste Ideas Manifests in Berlin he focusses his work on resource-intensive business models which made him an expert in the circular economy.
Network
We aim to increase the resilience of your company through the decoupling of growth from resource consumption. Therefore nextcycle relies on a network of multidisciplinary entrepreneurs instead of interdisciplinary generalists. To show you the business case in sustainability, we assemble our project teams with design thinking experts, economists, scientist, engineers as well as product and service designers. nextcycle analyses your current business model and evaluates opportunities for sustainable innovation. We accompany you on your way from a linear to a circular economy by advising you in strategic descision making and execution.
Get in touch
nextcycle
Christian Rudolph
Grüner Weg 38
50825 Köln
rudolph@nextcycle.de
Twitter: @nxtcycle
Tel: +49 (0)221 630 608 62
Mobile: +49 (0)151 432 344 32