Open for Business

CftBTeam Members:Richard AdamsLiam BoltonEléonore MayolaAndrew Schofield

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The Problem Being Addressed

The Problem Being Addressed: BaU to BnaU

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Validation

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• How can organizations become and be more environmentally and socially sustainable?

• Innovating for sustainability: A systematic review of the body of knowledge• Report, Executive summary, webinars, workshops, conferences• Conceptual foundation for series of Sustainable Innovation

Laboratories• 2x academic journal papers• Short-listed for CIM management article of the year 2014• Evidence submitted to the All Party Parliamentary Group on

Management Commission on the future of management

• Competing solutions• AMEE• Caelus Consulting• Green Plus• Green Pulse Check• Green Enterprise Movement• Strategic Sustainability Consulting• Futureway Australia• Greener Gateway• PWC

The Solution

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A multi-sided platform that brings together open data, industry data and proprietary firm level data to help firms become more environmentally and socially sustainable:

• Identify their environmental and social sustainability performance

• Benchmark against similar others

• Identify risk areas (e.g. compliance) and targets for improvement

• Access knowledge and expertise to address challenge areas

• Enhance social legitimacy and licence to operate

• Bottom line impact

• Change for the Better

Target user or customer

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• Industry – initially SMEs, corporations (for expertise pool)

• Buyers – decision aid for organisational or individual buyers

• Public sector – policy and procurement

• Knowledge providers – academic community, consultancy, NGOs

The Datasets Used

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• AMEE (EDX)• Energy consumption for selected Bristol buildings from smart

meters by half hour (Bristol City Council) (EDX)• Companies House• International Standards Office (ISO 14001)• Multiple others, eg:

• DEFRA’s Survey of public attitudes and behaviours towards the environment (EDX);

• DEFRA’s UK-AIR: Air Information Resource - automatic and non automatic monitoring data (EDX)

• But there are challenges: format and content

• Supplement with user-provided data

Monetisation & Value

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VP1 - Firm level data. Free to use by data owner• Reduce risk; facilitate compliance; track, monitor, improve internal & external

performance

VP2 – Opportunity to enhance social legitimacy. Free to use by data owner• Top & most improved ‘E’ firms in country, region, sector• Licence to operate

VP3 - Aggregated data. Pay per use & subscription• Benchmark; assess performance against similar others; identify opportunities for

improvement

VP4 - Consulting tools. Commoditisation and pay per use• Off the shelf and bespoke training, coaching & transformational packages

VP5 - Multisided platform. Affiliate model• Knowledge broker to solution providers (academic, consulting, NGOs)

VP6 - Environmental and social sustainability: win-win

Potential partners / channels and next steps

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• Challenge of scaling up

• Multi sided platform knowledge broking with academic and consulting community

• NGOs & GOs: e.g. UNEP, WWF, WBCSD, Environment Agency for issues identification and data

• Proprietary data sources: e.g. Government, Commercial data sets, National censuses etc

• Lobbying to extend and enhance existing datasets

The system

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Data sources

Registered Businesses

EDX Data

Other Open Data

Fee Based Data

OFBStandardised data

DataTransformation

EngineStandardised Data

Open For Business™Dashboard

Users

Registered Businesses

Public Sector Procurement

Public Sector Policy

Experts(Academia,

Consultants)

PublicDataPersistence

The Technology

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Data sources

API Data Streams

OFB User populated

OFB Static datasets

As JSON data

Web Engine

FlaskPythonMapboxLeaflet.js

Hosting - Heroku

GUI Design / Implementation

PrecursorappTableau

BootstrapIPython Notebook

DataPersistence

TBD

The Prototypes

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The Prototypes

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The Prototypes

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The Prototypes

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Eleonore Mayola @EleonoreMayola Mar 21

Using AMEE api for companies sustainability scores data with Python and cartodb! #edxhack http://cdb.io/1MYuPdX

Thank you

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