An Introduction

This site is to be developed as a management research knowledge repository containing

• Observations made and lessons learned by and with Australian SMEs (Small-Medium Enterprises) seeking to compete in a globalized business environment
• Experiences with government support programs and interactions with academia to help such enterprises
• Some experience with not-for-profit enterprise establishment and maintenance

The common themes were:

• The enterprises had to be Agile/Creative/Innovative Organisations to survive
• They had to develop Collaboration as an Acquired Competency working with others to build internal capability, virtual scale and scope of operations
• They had to be good at Obtaining Leverage from Knowledge wherever they could access it within or external to their operations
• Their Business Models needed to both match the operational environment and be a source of competitive advantage

The content presented comes from a blend of practitioner hands-on experience and external observation as a researcher of a multiplicity of real-world cases over more than two decades. The Wiki has been sponsored by a research and consulting network - see http://reinventnet.org and should be seen as an evolving work-in-progress.