by Daniel Zimmer | Sep 10, 2018 | Changemakers, Collaborative Action, Private Sector, Public Sector, Public-private synergies, Transitions
With contributions from Anaïs Sägesser and Majka Baur Since the inception of our Scaling4good initiative, 2,5 years ago, we have analysed many documents and talked to exceptional people motivated to transform our societies and economies at a faster pace than currently...
by Daniel Zimmer | Jun 11, 2018 | Private Sector, Public-private synergies
By Katrin Hauser and Daniel Zimmer Scaling, the art of deploying new solutions that have successfully passed their proof of concept phase, is most of the time approached from a business perspective, which can be summarised in a simple question: how does one...
by Daniel Zimmer | Apr 18, 2017 | Collaborative Action, Public-private synergies
Information technologies bring a lot to scaling processes. They facilitate large-scale dissemination of ideas, provide new marketplaces and contribute to reducing the marginal costs of services and products as clearly explained by Jeremy Rifkin. Using online...
by Daniel Zimmer | Apr 17, 2017 | Private Sector
In scaling, it is important to differentiate the growth of companies (scaling up) from the replication of successful initiatives (scaling out). Scaling-up has been given more attention because growth is what a “normal” company intends to do. Scaling out is equally...
by Daniel Zimmer | Dec 21, 2016 | Behaviour, Climate change, Collaborative Action, Transitions
The stability of our planet is at stake Our economic and demographic growth and development are taking humanity on planet Earth on a dangerous path. Since the middle of the 20th century, our environmental footprint has become so important that the entire Earth system...
