Business remodelling

Is life a circular or linear process? Some say attitude to life differs between cultures and that western culture always has been linear. Maybe that is why this winter has hit us so hard, both in Europe and in the states. We have been expecting a linear change from cold to warm winters believing the cold ones never will come back.

I don´t think life is a circular process. I think it is more like spiral drifting in certain direction but with situation reoccurring. This development is both good and bad. Good as it gives you the possibility to use your experiences from last time but bad as you have to be very carefully to identify the gradual change. It is like with fashion, even if you keep a coat from the eighties in wardrobe you realize when the eighties is back in fashion in 2010 the coat is not really up to date anyway.

This is something I have learned about technology for energy efficiency as well. Much has been invented earlier, especially in the seventies, but it does not really fit today. It needs a lot of remodelling to fit in the new business environment. I am glad to have had the opportunity to participate in the HINT project. I think that we in this project really have taken sustainable business remodelling one step further.