Generate 'quick win' ideas

Reducing energy is important because energy is going to get more expensive, every year for the next 50 years and beyond. If your competitors are way ahead of you on the value they deliver compared to the energy they use, your business may struggle to remain competitive.

Reducing the whole-life energy impacts of a product almost always aligns with reducing the depletion of scarce resources and toxicity impacts.

This section assumes the reader wants to:

• Find a quick win for an electronics product that increases profitability, improves the customer experience and also reduces energy / carbon footprint.
• Use the outcome of a 'quick win' to start the ball rolling for wider adoption of Designing Our Tomorrow within the business.

For convenience, the contents of the Quick Win Guide are shown below as a series of images. Clicking on any of these images will download the corresponding PDF file.

Further reading

If you are looking to start a concept design process from scratch, please see the introduction to concept design described within DOT in a nut shell. Before completing this Quick Win Guide, it is recommended that you try the Energy quiz to learn ‘what matters’ for energy impacts. If you would like to find out about Quick Win Guides for other product categories, please contact edc-toolkit@eng.cam.ac.uk