A Scaling Challenge: Technology in K-12 Education “We’re focusing on diffusing good ideas across networks and organizations, and also on how to maintain and enhance excellence as social systems expand and change, while avoiding or at least dampening the loss of speed, efficiency and commitment that plagues large networks and organizations,” Sutton explains. The hope is that the emerging strategies can be used in a host of contexts, from businesses and governments to nonprofits and the education system. The goal is to bring together faculty, students and practitioners from both inside and outside of Stanford to share best practices related to scaling. Recently, to extend the impact of this work around scaling in a more interactive way, Sutton and a group of other scaling-focused collaborators launched a project out of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program that they’re calling the Stanford Scaling Network.
“We’re focusing on diffusing good ideas across networks and organizations.” “What drove them crazy, kept them up at night, and devoured their workdays was the difficulty of spreading that excellence to more people and more places,” they write in the preface to their book. Executives, they found, could always identify pockets of excellence in their organizations. In the preface to his 2014 book “Scaling Up Excellence,” co-written with Huggy Rao of Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Sutton explains that their interest in scaling emerged as they led a Stanford-based management education program.
For over a decade, Bob Sutton - a professor in Stanford’s Department of Management Science and Engineering - has been obsessed with problems of scale.
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