The bio.t METHOD
Our bio.t™ METHOD is a proven process that helps you re/engineer your strategy and business model, and re/design your innovations. Using life centered design.
It works differently. Using a different playbook. Giving you different ways to diagnose, discover, design and make decisions.
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Most strategy and innovation frameworks ignore the science of life. Promoting "faster, better, cheaper" games, that chase first-player advantage in a zero-sum, agile and aimless world.
As global markets price in the materiality of the living world (3x the carbon bubble), you run the risk of not only wasting time and money, you limit your potential.
The living world is where the biggest disruptive growth opportunities are, where the coolest innovation is happening, where most of the investment world is heading, and where incredible profit potential lives.
When you leverage the biological value of the living world, you don't just reduce your risk, you get the chance to build real strategic advantage, create legacy brand power, open up new markets and unlock multiple new revenue streams.
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The bio.t™ METHOD plays in the design intersection of Biomimicry, Ecology, Ethics and Systems. seamlessly synthesized.
This is based on Melissa’s analysis and curation of 100 years of disruptive regenerative, living-system principles of how Nature designs.
Together they help you sense, seize and scale biological value potential. That you can directly apply to re/engineer your strategy and business model, and re/design your innovations.
(for profit or not, for social, for purpose, or anything in between)
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By someone who’s been there, done that, from in the arena. Not an academic, talking head or reinvented ad-man.
You get what works real life, real-time - the steps to follow, the questions to ask, and the models to use (and to avoid) from Melissa’s 25 years of transforming businesses (global corporates to start ups and NGOs), 15 years on the disruptive regenerative "bright" side, and 10 years training exec teams and entrepreneurs.
Made of 2 parts
1. the principles
The bio.t™ compass is a capability building framework that curates and synthesizes Biomimicry x Ecology x Ethics x Systems design principles, to give you the thinking tools you need to play the bigger disruptive game.
These are not virtue signaling principles. They are deep patterns of living systems. They’re built on deep analysis of 100 years of regenerative living-system research of how Nature designs. They’re strategic levers of future value creation.
Upskilling in these capabilities builds something we call your BQ™ - your biological quotient. They help level up your strategic practice.
2. the process
The bio.t™ canvas journeys you through a process of re/engineering your business, leveraging biological patterns of value potential.
It starts first with rooting yourself in the disruptive context of the living world and the lived experience.
As global markets price in the living world, this process helps you make better strategic decisions on where to play, how to innovate, and where to invest your time, tech and money.
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Each part of the bio.t™ canvas comes with a toolkit, built from what we learnt in Beta testing. Served up simply.
What NOT to do: 1. Practice traps to avoid. 2 Models to avoid. 3. Mindset shifts to make
WHAT to do: 1. Life-led design principles. 2. Biological champion species (to inspire). 3. cutting edge Biomimicry business case studies
HOW to do it: 1. Template. 2. Ten x questions to ask. 3. Distillation canvas with decision criteria framework
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NO Tired 20th century thinking. NO tired technocrat “best practice” examples from lazy talking heads. NO pale-male-stale consultancy speak. NO death-by-power point. NO long docs to read. NO ad-man soundbites and big stats in size 70 font with nature stock images. NO fluff. NO waffle. NO BS.
You're welcome.
Why Nature’s design playbook?
Because as global markets price in the materiality of the living world, there isn’t just huge risk. There’s huge opportunity.
life centered design gives you the inside track.
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Nature-positive sits alongside Climate. You don't just consider carbon emissions, but actively protect biodiversity, soil, water, land use, nutrient flows etc. as well.
WHY THIS? WHY NOW??
Half of global business GDP, US$44 trillion, relies on Nature (World Economic Forum 2020).
The ‘natural capital’ bubble is 3x larger than the CO2 bubble (Stuchtey et al 2016).
196 countries are now committed to not just Nature-risk disclosures, but to Nature-positive action (COP15 2022).
As global markets rapidly price in Nature, the disruptive impact on balance sheets and P&Ls is underway.
If we’re slow to disrupt ourselves, the negative impacts will be unprecedented, redefining our i. growth potential, ii. access to markets, iii. access to capital, iv. regulatory compliance, v. brand health and vi. supply costs.
But you don't have to wait for science-based target frameworks to take action.
As Simon Sinek said in the Infinite Game “There's no such thing as winning or losing; only ahead and behind” .
There is another Nature game we can play.
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There are two Nature games we can play.
Most are playing a game driven by TNFD and SBTN governance, reporting and compliance.
But there is a bigger game. Not just Nature-Positive, but Nature-played.
This game connects your strategy to the science of life, to unlock massive growth opportunity. Where innovation and business models learn from and leverage the high performance, high tech, 3.8 billion year old R&D genius of Nature.
There is an emerging global movement amongst leading business leaders, strategists, innovators, designers, management and sustainability consultants to play this bigger game.
To not just protect Nature, but to use Nature’s design thinking playbook. To radically reinvent the business world around us. To disrupt. To regenerate. To re/design products, services, platforms and even business models. Using Nature’s living genius as the guide.
These businesses are on the transformational pathway already. They're disrupting the shape of global markets, global industries, and the rules of the global economy.
They’re tapping into opportunities for radical new innovation, new revenue streams, new markets and profitable growth.
There is a 88%+ innovation gap between how biology designs and how humans design (Vincent and Mann 2011).
World Economic Forum estimates it could create US$10 trillion in GDP growth and 395 million new jobs by 2030.
This is where the evolutionary arc of disruptive futures is heading.
Where opportunities are abundant.
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We help you play the big game. It’s what we love.
We guide you on the business re/design and transformation journey. No matter where you are right now.
But what we’ve learnt in that to use Nature’s playbook, we need to shift our design thinking. From human centered design, to life centered design.
Our research of 100 years of living systems theory shows that we need to play on not ONE but FOUR interdependent design axes of value:
Transforming to less-toxic, more renewable solutions (ECOLOGY)
Transforming to more ethical, equitable, dignified and autonomous solutions for people, communities, and other species (ETHICS)
Transforming to more circular systems that keep materials, nutrients, energy, information and power in flow (SYSTEMS)
Transforming to unlock bio-potential, tapping into the genius of Nature’s R&D biotech toolkit (BIOMIMCRY)
If we use Nature's playbook, we open up:
Multiple new revenue streams. Multiple new market creating. Demand-led B2B and B2C growth. Scalable growth. De-risking. Lower costs. Capital flows. More profit. And we play at the highest order of sustainability.
We just need to learn how to discard the old 20th century, human-centered, business design playbook we’ve been taught to use.
And what we really really love is that in Nature's playbook, leverage is abundant. Not in some Pollyanna world view kind of way, but as a deep design principle. Which makes the journey way more fun!
Not just Nature-positive, but Nature-played.
Welcome to the bright side..
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The t stands for Tensegrity. We originally called it the Tensegrity Method - but turns out, that was a bit of a mouthful!
Tensegrity is a design principle coined by Buckminster Fuller in reference to the tensional integrity of systems. The strongest systems only work when all parts are held in tension.
Nature favors tensegrity structures the most - from the structure of our DNA and cells, to our our skeletal, muscular and myofascia systems, to spider webs, birds’ nests and trees.
Tensegrity structures are the most effective, use the least materials and energy, and unleash the greatest transformative potential. Which directly relates to business in terms of performance, efficiency and disruptive power.
When we lean into the tension, we unlock our disruption potential, and we access the transformative power of tension. It’s abundant.
