Power Transformer Program

Know what the next stage of growth needs. Then build it.

Growth Navigator assesses your company against the capabilities a scale-up needs at your stage, shows where you are under- or over-invested, and turns the findings into reviewed recommendations and Plans.

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How it works

Four steps to a decision

Register, confirm eligibility, respond to the merit criteria, and receive a decision. The same map tracks your application once you have started.

  1. Register
  2. Company
  3. Eligibility
  4. Merit
  5. Assessment
  6. Decision

What you get

Cohort tier

  • Growth Navigator portal access for all staff
  • All twelve assessment modules
  • Recommendations and Plans reviewed by a Commercialisation Manager
  • Peer transformer group membership
  • Eligibility for a Transition Specialist engagement
  • Scale-up clinics

Open-access tier

  • Portal access
  • The open-access modules (Phase, Strategy, Market, Commercial Engine, Risk)
  • Automated feedback only
  • Click-through terms instead of a Participation Agreement

The modules

Twelve lenses on scale-up health

M01 · mandatory

Phase and Growth Readiness

Churchill & Lewis (1983) five stages · Flamholtz Growing Pains Survey (10-item) · Greiner (1972/1998) growth crises

M02

Governance

ASX Corporate Governance Principles 4th ed. (adapted) · AICD governance principles for SMEs · Tricker's governance roles

M03

Strategy

SWOT / TOWS (Weihrich 1982) · Rumelt's strategy kernel · Ansoff matrix

M04

Market and Competition

Porter's Five Forces · Perceptual (positioning) map · Blue Ocean strategy canvas

M05

Commercial Engine

Business Model Canvas (Osterwalder) · Pipeline and funnel metrics · Unit economics

M06

Financial Health

Liquidity and leverage ratios · Cash runway and conversion cycle · Altman Z''-score (private firms) · Rule of 40 variant

M07

Risk

ISO 31000:2018 · 5×5 likelihood–consequence matrix · COSO ERM categories

M08

Operations and Scalability

Manufacturing Readiness Levels (MRL 1–10) · Hayes–Wheelwright four stages · Theory of Constraints · OEE

M09

Systems and Digital

CMMI-style five-level maturity · Ross & Weill IT governance · Essential Eight (ACSC)

M10

Team Composition

Belbin Team Roles · Big Five (IPIP-NEO-60) · Katzenbach & Smith team basics

M11

Culture and Leadership

Competing Values Framework / OCAI · Denison model · Kotter's 8 accelerators

M12

Commercialisation and Capital Readiness

ARENA Commercial Readiness Index (1–6) · Technology Readiness Level (1–9) · Investment Readiness Level (1–9) · IP position audit

Programs accepting applications

WA Commercialisation Hub Program

WA Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA) · Cohort

Intake open · closes 28 Feb 2027

Commercialisation support for Western Australian technology companies in clean energy, critical minerals and batteries.

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Power Transformer Program

Department of Industry, Science and Resources · Cohort + open access

Intake open · closes 31 Mar 2027

A structured scale-up program for Australian battery value-chain companies at the validated-product to repeatable-operation transition.

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