Learning networks to change “business models”
Dealing with Compression requires many organizations to fundamentally change what they do and how they serve clientele -- business model change. Most companies are so fossilized that they cannot survive this. Few leaders will take the risk without learning from peers facing the same challenge.
For work organizations to become intensive reshaping themselves for innovation, re-use, re-cycle, and life cycle service presumed by Compression, they have to work together more closely than is presumed than if each of them is just "competing in the market."
No sane business leader is going to commit to this without giving the matter considerable strategic thought. Changes are not only structural, they entail that elusive challenge called culture shift.
In addition, a manufacturing company that, for example, is trying to redesign products for cradle-to-cradle life cycles is likely need much denser communication with suppliers, customers, and other companies in the area than use or supply by-product materials and energy. This really does open the door into a different world.