Business experimentation and sourcing of used furniture flows from the market for a global furniture company
“Business experimentation is the best way to learn fast. The test has generated many valuable insights.”
Jesper Gunnarsson,
Consultant at Xvii
The big why
The global furniture company has committed to become climate positive 2030, meaning they will reduce more greenhouse gas than the full value chain emits. More than half of the company’s emissions come from the materials going into their products, and offering solutions that prolong the lives of their products will have a big impact.
The Challenge Today
The furniture company started a recovery hub for used furniture in Malmö, with the aim to learn more around circular operations and how to enable customers to meet second hand products. They needed someone who could share the operational responsibility as well as help to run the business experimentation and the sourcing of used furniture flows from the market.
The Solution
The recovery hub will aim to build insights and learnings on how to source, clean, repair and sell used furniture that has been passed on and offer them to new customers at even more affordable price.
Xvii helped getting the recovery hub running by
Setting up business experiments and validating solutions
Creating partnerships to source used furniture
Being part of iteratively improve the on-site operations
Being part of documenting the processes and best practice, as a first step towards potential scaling
Supporting the internal and external communication of the initiative
Xvii’s role
Consultant on site to help run the business experiment.
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