The Power of Sensing and Scaling: Leading Business Model Innovation for Sustainability in Textiles

The Power of Sensing and Scaling: Leading Business Model Innovation for Sustainability in Textiles

This paper examines how sensing and scaling capabilities drive business model innovation for sustainability in the textile industry. The sector faces significant environments and social challenges, including high carbon emissions, excessive water consumption, textile waste, and supply chain transparency issues. The paper explains how organizations use sensing to identify emerging sustainability trends, regulatory changes, technological innovations, and evolving consumer preferences, while scaling enables firms to expand and integrate sustainable business across business models across products, markets and value chains. Case studies of Patagonia, H&M, China, Japan, Bangladesh and Vietnam demonstrate how these capabilities support circular economy practices, resource efficiency and long-term competitiveness. The paper also discusses barriers such high implementation cost, limited recycling infrastructure, consumer behavior and fragmented policies. Finally, it provides recommendations for business leaders and policymakers to strengthen sustainability through innovation, collaboration and support regulatory frameworks. In conclusion, the study concludes that combining sensing and scaling capabilities is essential for achieving sustainable transformation and competitive advantage in the global textile industry. This reflects the papers focus on sustainability challenges, business model innovation, practical case studies and recommendations.