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Partner Map

Map your stakeholder ecosystem and facilitate cooperation to create more value together than alone.

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The tool

What is the Partner Map?

Inspired by natural ecosystems, the Partner Map helps you visualize your stakeholder network, understand their roles and interactions, and identify the cooperations to activate to create more value together.

  • 1

    List the key actors

    Identify all the actors around your project: suppliers, customers, partners, institutions, communities.

  • 2

    Qualify the relationships

    Analyze the nature of each relationship: value flows exchanged, mutual dependencies, synergy opportunities.

  • 3

    Map the ecosystem

    Position the actors on the canvas based on their role and proximity to your organization.

  • 4

    Identify the cooperations to activate

    Spot missing or underused partnerships that could create new circular value loops.

Partner Map

Use cases

When to use the Partner Map?

Partnership strategy

Structure your partnership approach to build lasting strategic alliances.

Functional economy

Identify the actors needed to set up a service- or usage-based model.

Sector transition

Facilitate coordination between actors in a sector to build a collective circular economy.

Collaborative workshops

Create a visual space for dialogue to align stakeholders around a shared vision.

Service design

Understand all the actors involved in delivering a service to optimize it.

Open innovation

Identify external partners who can complement your capabilities and accelerate innovation.

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The complete method

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Circulab's tools are designed to work together. Each one prepares the next in the circular design method.

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