Entrepreneurship
Lead high growth
When demand climbs fast, avoid the traps of premature scaling, rank your growth options, and build the organization without losing speed.
Your learning route
The program order
Complete the programs in order to finish the route. Each one brings short lessons, applied practice and a realistic business case together.
Plus and Pro members can create a verifiable Stratify certificate when the route is complete.
- Program 01
Measure your readiness to scale
Foundational: you learn to read whether a venture is ready to move to growth. By the end of this program you can explain why launching and growing are different jobs, separate economies of scale from economies of scope, recognize the five dimensions of premature scaling, and show what your current position gives you to build on.
- A sprint and a marathon
- Economies of scale and scope
- The five dimensions of premature scaling
Apply it: Case: the growth decision at Aegean Filtration
5 lessons · ≈3 hours
- Program 02
Rank the growth options
Intermediate: you learn to compare the growth options in front of you and put them in order. By the end of this program you can separate the enhance, expand and explore approaches, tell apart the four routes to a capability, show how one investment lowers the cost of the moves that follow, and test whether an option can be carried by what you already have.
- Strategy is making choices
- Enhance, expand, explore
- Four routes to a capability
Apply it: Case: three options at Anatolia Seed
5 lessons · ≈3 hours
- Program 03
Build the growing organization and its governance
Advanced: you learn to build the organization and governance of a growing venture without losing speed. By the end of this program you can explain why twentieth-century design logic turned nimble firms rigid, design work units in four steps, show which organization your metrics are actually building, and plan the shift from founder to leader alongside the shift to an independent board.
- Keeping speed as complexity rises
- Designing the work unit
- The metric builds the organization
Apply it: Case: year two at Marmara Logistics
5 lessons · ≈3 hours