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Supply change: Risks and Opportunities     

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  • Natural Resources
    Positive: Responsible mining of valuable resources
    Negative: Forced and dangerous labor, environmental degradation of land and rivers
  • Component issues
    Positive: Single material constructions
    Negative: Long complex disassembly time, designs containing toxic materials
  • Design issues
    Positive: Designs for disassembly, refurbishment & reuse of valuable resources
    Negative: Poor quality design, toxic components, designed for obsolescence and multiple configurations
  • Assembly issues
    Positive: Highly motivated and productive workforce
    Negative: Sweatshops and discharging toxic waste
  • Transportation issues
    Positive: Real time visibility and trading schemes will create new markets
    Negative: Excessive cost with airfreight, excessive time with ocean freight
  • Sales issues
    Positive:
    Negative:
  • Product Usage
    Positive: Consumer preference drives consumption
    Negative: Excess energy usage, overconsumption and overproduction
  • Product Refurbishment opportunities
    Positive: Extending lifecycle at low investment
    Negative: Poorly designed products with short lifecycles
  • E-waste issues
    Positive: Effective collection of product remains
    Negative: Dispersed product discarding
  • Recycling issues
    Positive: Money for valuable resources
    Negative: Landfill shortages and groundwater and soil contamination