There are three basic phases of growth: startup, scale-up and grown-up. While each presents unique obstacles and challenges, the scale-up phase can be particularly difficult for many leaders. I’ll ...

If you are a startup or small to medium-sized business, you need to think about your scaling-up journey. As entrepreneurs, regardless of the economy, we must grow our businesses or remain stagnant, if ...

Over the past five years, I worked exclusively on trying to help social ventures scale up at an organization called Spring Impact. As a player in the middle—neither a practitioner nor funder—I spent ...

IT systems can scale vertically, horizontally, and sometimes both. In broad terms, vertical scaling, or scale-up, entails installing more powerful systems or upgrading to more powerful components.

Starting a business is one of the most rewarding and high-stakes journeys an entrepreneur can undertake. It’s a well-known statistic that 90% of startups fail, with many never making it past their ...

If you’ve proven your product on a pilot line, and it’s time to turn up real-world production, beware because many companies stumble on their first large-scale build. Before you pour concrete or sign ...

This month I interviewed Verne about his new book, Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0). I interviewed him with a single focus: Why do only a fraction of companies actually scale up, while so many ...

If 20 years of coaching business owners to scale their companies has taught me anything it is this: the overwhelming majority of entrepreneurs want growth. They focus on it; work towards it; and even ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. When growing capacity and power ...

Governments aren’t generally known as innovative environments. But although innovation may not always come naturally to these institutions, scale certainly does. So when they do find ways to incubate ...