Executive Curriculum
Advanced Strategies for Scaling Established Companies
Program Overview
The Astra 5-Day Advanced Scaling Program is an intensive, outcome-driven executive experience designed specifically for senior leaders of established companies seeking to unlock new growth trajectories. Unlike programs focused on startups, this curriculum addresses the unique challenges faced by mature businesses looking to scale operations, expand market share, and achieve sustainable growth in competitive landscapes.
Each day of the program builds upon the previous day's insights and deliverables, creating a cohesive executive journey from business model optimization to international expansion and sustainable growth financing. The curriculum combines expert-led instruction, case study analysis, strategic workshops, and personalized mentoring to deliver maximum impact in just five days.
Program Dates: August,2025 | The Garage
Program Philosophy
Strategic Transformation
Executives will engage in rigorous reassessment of their business models, market positioning, and growth strategies, challenging established assumptions to identify new scaling opportunities.
Operational Excellence
Every session is designed to produce actionable frameworks for optimizing existing operations while building capacity for significant scale, balancing current performance with future growth.
Sustainable Growth Leadership
The curriculum prioritizes sustainable scaling strategies that executives can systematically implement across complex organizational structures, avoiding short-term gains that compromise long-term value.
Global Market Mastery
International experts will provide insights into global expansion strategies, cross-border operations, and cultural adaptation techniques that enable established businesses to scale beyond their current markets.
Daily Curriculum
Day 1: Business Model Optimization & Market Re-segmentation
Reimagining your established business for the next growth horizon
Advanced Business Model Optimization
The program begins with a deep dive into business model optimization for established companies. Participating executives will learn sophisticated frameworks for evaluating their current business models and identifying opportunities for strategic evolution without disrupting core revenue streams.
The session includes analysis of successful business model transformations by mature companies across industries, with particular focus on value chain reconfiguration, platform strategies, subscription models, digital transformation, and strategic outsourcing decisions.
Early Strategic Market Re-segmentation
Building on the afternoon's business model analysis, this session focuses on advanced market re-segmentation techniques for mature businesses. Participating executives will learn how to identify new growth opportunities within and adjacent to their existing markets through sophisticated segmentation approaches.
The session includes practical workshops on identifying underserved segments, developing segment attractiveness models, creating segment-specific value propositions, designing targeted go-to-market strategies, and balancing resource allocation between established and emerging segments.
Executive Roundtables & Case Study Analysis
The day concludes with structured roundtable discussions led by international experts who have successfully transformed established businesses. These sessions will feature in-depth analysis of high-profile business model transformations such as Adobe's shift to subscription, Microsoft's cloud pivot, and IBM's services transformation.
Day 2: Product Portfolio Re-alignment & Innovation Management
Evolving your product strategy to capture new growth opportunities while leveraging existing strengths
Product Portfolio Re-alignment
The second day begins with a comprehensive exploration of product portfolio strategies for established companies seeking new growth. Participating senior leaders will learn advanced frameworks for evaluating their current product portfolios and identifying opportunities for strategic re-alignment.
The session includes workshops on portfolio analysis techniques, identifying product adjacencies, managing the tension between core products and new offerings, pricing strategy optimization, and cannibalization management.
Early Innovation Management for Established Companies
This session focuses on building innovation capabilities within established organizational structures. Participating executives will learn how to foster innovation while maintaining operational excellence in their core business.
The session includes practical workshops on establishing innovation governance models, balancing incremental and disruptive innovation, creating effective corporate venturing programs, designing acquisition strategies for innovation acceleration, and implementing stage-gate processes optimized for established businesses.
Executive Panel on Transformative Innovation
The day concludes with a panel discussion featuring C-suite executives who have successfully led innovation initiatives within established companies, covering topics such as securing board support, managing cultural aspects of innovation, measuring innovation impact, and balancing short-term performance with long-term innovation investments.
Day 3: Operational Scalability & Process Optimization
Building operational infrastructure that enables significant scale without disrupting current performance
Advanced Operational Scalability
The third day focuses on creating scalable operational models that can support significant growth without compromising current performance. Participating executives will learn sophisticated approaches to operational design that balance efficiency, flexibility, and scalability.
The session includes practical workshops on identifying operational bottlenecks, designing modular operational architectures, implementing process automation strategies, creating scalable shared service models, and developing operational KPIs that balance current performance and future scalability.
Early Supply Chain and Delivery Network Optimization
This session explores the critical role of supply chain and delivery network optimization in enabling sustainable growth. Participating executives will learn how to design resilient, flexible supply chains that can scale efficiently while managing risk.
The session includes practical workshops on conducting supply chain vulnerability assessments, designing multi-tier supplier strategies, implementing advanced inventory management models, creating flexible manufacturing networks, and developing digital supply chain capabilities.
Technology Infrastructure for Scale
The day concludes with a focused session on technology infrastructure requirements for significant scaling, covering topics such as enterprise architecture design, cloud migration strategies, data architecture and governance, legacy system modernization, and cybersecurity considerations for rapidly scaling operations.
Day 4: Leadership for Scale & Organizational Design
Evolving leadership approaches and organizational structures to manage complexity during rapid growth
Executive Leadership for Complex Organizations
The fourth day addresses the leadership challenges that executives face when scaling established businesses. Participating senior leaders will learn advanced leadership frameworks for managing increased complexity, geographic dispersion, and organizational transformation.
The session includes practical workshops on evolving leadership styles, managing the tension between centralization and decentralization, developing effective executive team dynamics, creating cascading accountability systems, and implementing strategic communication approaches for large-scale change.
Early Organizational Design for Sustainable Growth
This session focuses on organizational design strategies that enable sustainable scaling. Participating executives will learn how to evolve their organizational structures to support growth while maintaining alignment and efficiency.
The session includes practical workshops on assessing organizational design fitness, implementing matrix and network organizational models, designing governance systems, creating talent management strategies, and developing organizational culture that supports sustainable growth.
Change Management for Transformation
The day concludes with a focused session on change management approaches for significant organizational transformation, covering topics such as stakeholder management, overcoming resistance in established organizational cultures, pacing and sequencing change initiatives, building change capability, and measuring transformation progress.
Day 5: International Expansion & Sustainable Growth Financing
Expanding beyond current markets and securing the capital required for sustainable growth
International Expansion Strategy
The final day focuses on international expansion strategies for established companies. Participating executives will learn sophisticated approaches to market selection, entry strategy, and cross-border operations.
The session includes practical workshops on international market assessment, entry mode selection, cross-border partnership strategies, global operating model design, and managing the complexity of multinational operations.
Early Sustainable Growth Financing
This session addresses the financial strategies required to support sustainable growth. Participating executives will learn how to optimize their capital structures and secure the financing needed for significant scaling initiatives.
The session includes practical workshops on growth financing options, optimal capital structure design, investor communication strategies, valuation approaches for transformation initiatives, and financial risk management during rapid scaling.
Integration & Implementation Planning
The program concludes with a comprehensive integration session where participants synthesize their learnings from all five days into a cohesive scaling strategy for their organizations. Executives will develop implementation roadmaps with clear priorities, resource requirements, risk mitigation strategies, and performance metrics.
Program Methodology
Expert-Led Instruction
Sessions are led by world-class experts with extensive experience in scaling established businesses across industries and geographies, providing both theoretical frameworks and practical implementation guidance.
Case Study Analysis
Participants analyze detailed case studies of successful scaling initiatives by established companies, extracting applicable insights and avoiding common pitfalls through structured analytical frameworks.
Strategic Workshops
Interactive workshops enable executives to apply scaling frameworks directly to their own organizational contexts, developing concrete strategies and implementation plans with expert guidance.
Executive Roundtables
Structured discussions with peers facing similar scaling challenges create opportunities for collaborative problem-solving and the exchange of diverse perspectives on common growth barriers.
Expert Panels
Panels featuring C-suite executives who have successfully led scaling initiatives provide real-world insights into implementation challenges and critical success factors for growth strategies.
Implementation Planning
Throughout the program, executives develop concrete implementation plans for their organizations, culminating in comprehensive scaling roadmaps with clear priorities and performance metrics.