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The ZERI Axioms
TARGET
Systems must allow business to combine
economical, ecological and social objectives and must be
able to do
this with no need for subsidies
GROWTH
Businesses must increase their final products while
using less raw materials and therefore growing in
armony with Nature
PRODUCTIVITY
Businesses must increase their total productivity while
increasing jobs opportunities and avoiding contamination
CASH FLOW
Consolidated cash flow is higher then the sum of the
cash flows of all the processes taken independently
QUALITY
Businesses must offer to Society the best quality at the
lowest price
PRICE
Businesses must allow the prices of the core product to
descrease thanks to Research, so that they can offer more to
their own customers for the price they pay
LOCALIZATION
Businesses are more efficient when they are more local
and when they are goupped in clusters depending on
Biodiversity, respecting the Systems Design Principles of
the Five Kingdoms of Nature, when optimization is pursued by
all and not maximising the benefits for just one of them
COMPETITIVENESS
Competitiveness is based on appropriate economies, giving
less importance to scale economies
INNOVATION AND RISK
Improvement of the systems and acceleration in innovation
offer a basis for further entrepreneurial actions while reducing risk
MANAGEMENT
Management must be inspired by the immunity system
THERMODYNAMICS
Industrial clusters, when they are open and do not close
their circuit, determine that such creative circuit never
ends and converts itself into a series of integrated
operations, turning from caos to disorder reaching higher and higher levels of order
in an endless process
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