The books shows how, by thinking ‘smart’, companies and governments can economically profit from technological progress and at the same time contribute to sustainable development. Replete with both successful and failed examples, this useful tool for tomorrow’s functional economy

• introduces the business models that turn knowledge into better performance, more jobs and greater wealth,
• describes how to improve the manufacturing process, product service sales and performance over time,
• shows how traditional techniques and innovations for renewal of precious resources can create both manual and skilled jobs, resulting in lower unemployment, lower energy consumption and reduced resource throughput – three ingredients for economic growth.

Chapter 1: Producing Performance

Introduces the value-per-weight ratio (€-per-kg) to measure wealth creation in relation to resource consumption and shows strategies how to signi­ficantly boost this ratio.

Chapter 2: Selling Performance

Introduces the ‘manhour-per-kg’ ratio to measure job creation in relation to resource consumption and highlights ways to radically increase this ratio.

Chapter 3: Managing Performance Over Time

Presents the business models that enable entrepreneurs to achieve synergies by profit­ably exploiting the three objectives into sustainable profits while at the same time internalising the costs of risk and of waste.

Chapter 4: Sustainability and the Performance Economy

Shows the common denominator of the two concepts and how they are intertwined with the three objectives.