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What makes scale-up leaders different?

What makes scale-up leaders different?

In September 2017, THNK launched a survey amongst its program participants to better understand the leadership characteristics of scale up leaders.

Creative Leadership Scale-Up Design

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Enterprise growth and scalability

Enterprise growth and scalability

What is the magic ingredient to scaling? How come some businesses enjoy exponential growth and others – despite their best efforts – often hit a ceiling?

Innovative Enterprise Scale-Up Design

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Structure follows strategy

Structure follows strategy

In this article, we discuss different organizational models that are fit for a specific strategy. Read more about Alfred Chandler that structure follows strategy.

Creative Leadership Innovative Enterprise Personal Mastery Scale-Up Design

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Timing a wave

Timing a wave

Timing a wave — whether it's a challenge, a big change, or a significant transition — is a temperamental, unpredictable ordeal that scale-ups must face.

Innovative Enterprise Scale-Up Design

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Getting the ear of the CEO to pivot

Getting the ear of the CEO to pivot

Learn how to sell the need to pivot to a manager or how to encourage feedback as a scale-up CEO. We share several tactics associated with success.

Scale-Up Design

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Delighting users

Delighting users

Delighting users is not about service. It takes the premise of what it means to be a consumer and raises it to new heights.

Innovative Enterprise Scale-Up Design

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Scalable platforms

Scalable platforms

Learn how to build scalable platforms that provide new benefits to users, create digital delivery systems, and work with an innovative business model.

Innovative Enterprise Scale-Up Design

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Managing your innovation portfolio

Managing your innovation portfolio

We explore the importance of innovation portfolio management and how to organize the innovative ambitions of your company.

Innovative Enterprise Scale-Up Design

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How to successfully set up a pilot

How to successfully set up a pilot

How do you shorten the distance to failure and make it meaningful? In in the world of innovation, how do you successfully set up a pilot?

Innovative Enterprise Scale-Up Design

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Are you focusing on the right pilot?

Are you focusing on the right pilot?

Piloting in business innovation means testing an idea effectively. Find out if you're focusing on the right pilot by addressing the important questions.

Innovative Enterprise Scale-Up Design

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Getting innovation to scale: Emergence

Getting innovation to scale: Emergence

Innovation leadership can look to make use of emergence by designing an open system with rules for interaction, allowing for successful behavior to spread.

Innovative Enterprise Scale-Up Design

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Getting innovation to scale: Networks

Getting innovation to scale: Networks

Human behavior is strongly affected by the way people are connected together. Read our seven methods for scaling that leverage the properties of networks.

Innovative Enterprise Scale-Up Design

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