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What is the Scaling Scan?

The Scaling Scan is a user-friendly tool to explore what is required to scale an innovation
in a specific context, the implications this has for project management and collaborations and the potential trade-offs on the environment as well as social dynamics. 

The Scaling Scan has three steps: 
a) Scaling Ambition: Scopes the innovation goal you want to reach within a context.
b) Scaling Ingredients: Assesses the enabling conditions in that context to scale your innovation.
c) Points of Attention: Evaluates the opportunities and challenges you have to scale your innovation.

The Scaling Scan is based on ten scaling ingredients that represent the enabling environment for an innovation and have a significant impact on whether a scaling ambition can be realistically achieved.


To learn more about the tool, its steps, and its ingredients, you can explore the resources below under “More information”.

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More Information

  • Easy explanation of the Scaling Scan

    This quick video explains the “Scaling Scan” steps.

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  • A 2-pager on the Scaling Scan, what it is, when to use it and why

    A practical tool to determine strengths and weaknesses of a scaling ambition

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  • Lesson: Introduction to Scaling

    In this video you will learn the basics of scaling.

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  • Lesson: The scaling ingredients

    In this video, you will learn about Step 2 of the Scaling Scan: Assessing the status of the 10 scaling ingredients.

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  • Lesson: How to construct a Scaling ambition

    In this video, you will learn about Step 1 of the Scaling Scan: Construct a Scaling Ambition.

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  • Taking a Scaling perspective

    A 2-pager on six scaling principles that help projects achieve sustainable and responsible scaling.

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  • The Scaling Pyramid

    This image describes the three scaling dimensions; what it means to scale out, up and deep. It shows an example of how this different scaling dimensions were planned during a project in Mexico called Masagro.

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  • Using the Digital Scaling Scan

    Instructional Video: Do you want to learn how to use the Digital Tool? Click here.

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  • Video: Defining your Scaling Ambition

    In this video, you will learn about step 1a of the Scaling Scan. This video shows the steps to develop your Scaling Ambition, but also reflections and recommendations in this step of the Scaling Scan.

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  • Video: Responsibility and Systems Check of your Scaling Ambition

    This video shows the questions and reflections that you have to make yourself during the steps 1b and 1c of the Scaling Scan, concerning systems, social and environmental responsibility checks.

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