The Pack Scout Resource Library
Books, frameworks, and clarity tools to help packaging companies move faster with confidence.
Frameworks & Tools
The practical alignment and clarity tools I use with teams every day.
Designed so anyone can pick them up and start moving faster.
Shared Principles for Sustainable Print & Packaging
Today, most sustainability challenges come from one problem:
misalignment. Different teams, suppliers, and customers use different definitions, metrics, and assumptions — which leads to confusion, friction, and slow progress.
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These two manifestos were created to solve that.
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They offer clear, shared, non-competitive principles that any organisation can adopt. They’re not frameworks to sell, but alignment tools designed to eliminate the wasted time and miscommunication that happen when everyone is speaking a slightly different sustainability language. Use them as internal guides, onboarding tools, strategic references, or to align cross-functional teams around a simple, shared understanding of what “sustainable” really means in print and packaging.
Sustainable Print Manifesto
A concise set of shared principles that unify the print value chain — brands, printers, designers, converters — around what responsible, modern, sustainable print truly looks like.
It clarifies expectations, improves collaboration, and removes unnecessary complexity from sustainability conversations.
Sustainable Packaging Manifesto
Sustainability stalls when teams use different definitions. This manifesto provides a uniform definition as well as simple metrics and principles— alignment tools designed to remove confusion, guide conversations, and support faster, clearer decision-making. Using the same language will increase understanding across the value chain and plug the legacy leaks and bring clarity to a complex topic.
Alignment Compass
A simple diagnostic tool that reveals where packaging teams are misaligned — strategy, direction, execution, communication, or ownership.
In under five minutes, leaders can identify hidden friction, repeated rework, or misinterpretation that slows progress.
Essential for teams who want fast clarity and clean alignment before major decisions, engagements, or redesigns.
Circular Communication Framework
A practical, audience-first communication tool that fixes messaging breakdowns.
Shows why messages fail, how interpretation varies across functions, and how to create communication that sticks.
Perfect for anyone who wants to ensure consistent internal and external narratives and communication that is understood.
Regulatory Alignment Decision Tree
A simple flow checklist to help guide teams in material design that aligns with legislation.
Helps teams understand when to redesign, when to document risk, and how to make safe packaging claims across markets.
Excellent for companies that want to ask the questions at the start of the project that will help avoid mistakes or waste later.
Misalignment Diagnostic
A quick and powerful simple clarity diagnostic that exposes where your team’s “leak” is — strategy, interpretation, ownership, communication, or execution.
Score each area and use the total to immediately see where clarity breaks down.
A perfect starting point for leadership alignment conversations and roadmap clarity.