ScaleUp

Global Scale X

GlobalScaleX

3 months intensive program to develop your global scaling strategy.

Our experts, mentors, entrepreneurs, faculty and investors are ready to support you in building the capabilities required for your company to scale.

Participating companies will be invited to four modules and will join a continuous strategy development process throughout the program.

Modules are held in:

Helsinki
Oslo
San Francisco

Nordic high tech-companies with global growth ambitions are invited to join the program. We require that the participating companies already have a product or service in the market and back by risk capital.

The program starts on September 14th with a kick off seminar:

Module 1: September 29th - 30th Online
Module 2: October 17th – 18th Oslo
Module 3: November 14th – 17th Helsinki
Module 4: November 28th – 2nd San Francisco

The program is co-designed by Aalto ENT and BI Norwegian Business School with Nordea Startup & Growth. Professor Sut I Wong is academic responsible for the program.

Programme benefits

GlobalScaleX is the step to take to get your company to the next level. Enroll two to three of the company´s management team members in the program and use the 12 weeks to develop your scaling strategy with the help of our trainers and mentors.

Identify where to target resources to maximize growth
Gain new tools and frameworks for scaling
Get inspiration and new ideas from experienced trainers and business mentors
Clarify your business strategy and optimize your business processes

Identify your company's current state, set future targets, detect the scaling barriers and select a strategic target based on the allocation of resources

Four two-day modules focusing on development of company's processes and capabilities.

Four private mentoring sessions with an expert selected to support company's unique scaling journey.

Programme content

We use Triple Chasm Model - a scaleup analysis to identify a company's internal and external capabilities. This framework is developed by Dr hailandra Vyakarnam and Uday Phadke based on research of over 3000 scaleups companies globally.
- Identifying company's strengths and competitive advantages
- Recognizing the weaknesses and development areas
- Detect and select the strategic target based on the allocation of resources
- Identify company's growth and scaling barriers
Dr. Shailendra Vyakarnam, PhD, Cranfield School of Management, Director of the Bettany Centre for Entrepreneurship, Cranfield School of Management

Watch video: Aalto Leaders' Insight: Why is Scaling-Up so Hard?
We will focus on how to lead a growing company and create successful culture and teams. We will use Hogan Leadership Assessment to help you build great leaders, impact the bottom line and develop talented employees. You will also learn what capabilities are the most needed for founders / leaders to lead a growing company.

Objectives for the module:
- Identifying leader’s strengths and developmental needs
- To be aware of your mindset and thinking
- Psychological safety is the foundation of creativity - physiology of psychological safety and how to actively create it
- Courage orientation in conversation; high stakes and tough moments, who isn't afraid?
- High quality conversation model (OK5) is always effective - learn to use it
Faculty:
Ira Lange, MA, University of Helsinki, Certified Business Coach (ICF) and Team Builder, TM
Riitta Lumme-Tuomala, DBA (Doctor of Business Administration), Head of Growth, Aalto University Executive Education
The Nordic Innovation House is a community platform accelerating high-quality Nordic tech startups, scaleups and growth companies. Via this strong community and network, they connect Nordic companies into the right ecosystem stakeholders with presence in Silicon Valley, New York, Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo providing a global network and framework tailored to serve the local ecosystem needs.

The company get service package from Nordic Innovation House globally. The package include:
- Introduction to the market
- Access to community platform
- Showcase the company to the platform
- Co-working space trial
- Event invitation
- Connect to the local ecosystem
NIH Global x Nordic scalers package (pdf)