1. The Scaling Innovation Game
Charles Leadbeater

2. Congratulations, you’ve got a prototype
that works, that was the easy bit…

3. Now it’s a game of snakes and ladders…

4. 1. What is the appropriate scale?
Small but beautifully formed:
African Institute of Mathematical Sciences

5. 2. What is being scaled?
Principles, products, process…
Reggio Emilia Child Centred Development

6. 3. What are the risks involved?
The disposable diaper

7. 3. What are the risks involved?
It may work but will people want it, now,
and can you create a business model?

8. 4. Go back to the drawing board…
Make it simpler, lower cost,
easy to adopt, focus on the average user..
Pratham and the Doorstep School

9. 5. Do you have all the assets needed to
go to scale?
The sad story of EMI and its MRI scanner

10. 6. Do you have the right people?
Social innovators might be the enemy of
social innovation
The struggle to scale JumpMath

11. 7. Is it McDonalds or Chinese restaurant?

12. 7. Is it a system (centralised knowledge,
local implementation, standard format)
or movement (core principles, local
knowledge, adapt to context)

13. 8. Maybe you should think like a
Strawberry…

14. 8. Mobilise resources in the right way…
One main source, up front?
Through partners?
From many sources, as you grow?

15. 9. Success creates its own dilemmas …
Who stole my idea?
Why is it so crap?
Escuela Nueva

16. 10. Dislodging incumbents…
Public service innovation is just the tip of
the iceberg, the current system is
lurking below the surface ready to sink
you

17. The scale of impact equation:
Innovation x Intensity x Reach =
Impact

18. The scale of impact equation:
Different x Better x More =
Impact