Elements and Performance Criteria
- Define parameters of new/improved product
- Consult with relevant stakeholders to determine required function, performance and aesthetics of new product
- Identify market, expected time to market and cost constraints of product and production process
- Identify requirements with possible high sustainability impacts
- Negotiate requirements to achieve desired sustainability impacts
- Develop agreed definition of product requirements
- Develop alternative product and process designs
- Identify alternative resource requirements
- Identify alternative processes
- Determine the possible sustainability impacts of different combinations of resources and processes
- Test alternative product and process designs against original product requirement definitions
- Identify product requirements which may be causing significant sustainability impacts
- Renegotiate, where possible, product requirements to lessen sustainability impacts
- Short-list preferred resources and processes
- Evaluate life cycle impacts
- Confirm design
- Prepare for implementation