The size limitation defining our kind of small businesses would seem to place a ceiling on what we can accomplish. This need not be so. Small business collaboratives offer an answer. Consider a large business as an aggregation of separate functions organized into a unit by a command and control management system. Each function has an employee-manager who obeys the orders that flow down the chain of command. Conceptually the same outcome could be provided by independent small businesses skilled in each particular function. A cooperative organizational structure would replace the command and control system. Such an approach would allow a number of small businesses working together in “collaboratives” to achieve the same outcome as one large business, but far more creatively and efficiently. Small businesses can in this way extend their reach. Building “collaboratives” with other selected small businesses is a more efficient alternative to expanding employment to try and achieve the same goals. The blueprint developed by the School of Small Business Practice sees small business collaboratives becoming a basic and normal feature of small business operation. The School has identified situations where such collaboratives can be initiated to achieve particular goals. For each such situation the school provides the opportunity for any small business to identify themselves in a database, as having an interest in pursuing a collaborative relationship. Think about future possibilities for your business in this new way, and join the secure databases of your choice. When well populated, these databases will be the practical means for you to explore and develop desirable collaboratives as a strategy basic to your future business success.
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