Forced and Fumbled Scale-Up

Dumb scale-up is bad. Forced scale-up is worse because it wastes resources faster. Fumble scale-up, and you die.

Bent Flyvbjerg
Geek Culture
Published in
6 min readJul 26, 2022

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I covered smart scale-up and dumb scale-up in two previous articles. Here I focus on two further types of scale-up: Forced and fumbled.

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Bent Flyvbjerg
Geek Culture

Professor Emeritus, University of Oxford; Professor, IT University of Copenhagen. Writes about project management. https://www.linkedin.com/in/flyvbjerg/