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The Nanocorp Primer #4
Shamrocks and Nanocorps
Bridging the Digital Divide with 'Small is Good' Business Webs
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Preface
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| Learn about Shamrock and federal organizations, the Portfolio Life and more in Charles Handy's The Age of Unreason. |
This installment of The Nanocorp Primer presents a strategy for using 'Small is Good' organization dynamics to open up a new category of entrepreneurial opportunity in the U.S. Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities. We'll show how Charles Handy's 'Shamrock' organization model plays a part in shaping the 'Small is Good' business webs which can bridge the Digital Divide.
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28 September 2000
Raleigh, NC USA
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Table of Contents
This presentation consists of the following slides:
- Shamrocks and Nanocorps: Bridging the Digital Divide with 'Small is Good' Business Webs
- The 'Digital Divide' It's today's spin on the timeless dilemma of the Gap between the 'Haves' and 'Have-nots'
- Solutions to the Digital Divide are not 'rescue missions' to bring folks across the Gap. We need to build bridges.
- Shamrocks and Nanocorps: Business Webs of 'Small is Good' partners working together can bridge the Digital Divide.
- To understand 'Small is Good' Business Webs, you need to understand Charles Handy's Shamrock organization and its three 'leaves'...
- 'Shamrocking' is changing the face of business and the workplace. It is a logical response to global competition and the increased speed of change.
- In a Shamrocking world, nanocorps represent the convergence of 'employee' and 'business' coming together as the 'unary business'.
- The nanocorp is the 'atomic' building block of a 'Small is Good' Business Web.
- Groups of nanocorps form dejobbed small businesses where they fill contractual roles, not jobs.
- Free Agent nanocorps and Dejobbed Small Businesses are the basic building blocks of 'Small is Good' Business Webs.
- Now... back to the Digital Divide. How do we bridge the Gap with Shamrock-based 'Small is Good' Business Webs?
- Squirrelfeeders.com -- 'Core Leaf', dejobbed, 'small' business, a pure Internet play, the eBrand... (1 of 3)
- Squirrelfeeders.com -- 'Core Leaf', dejobbed, 'small' business, a pure Internet play, the eBrand... (2 of 3)
- Squirrelfeeders.com -- 'Core Leaf', dejobbed, 'small' business, a pure Internet play, the eBrand... (3 of 3)
- The Core's Sales and Marketing challenges are comparable to other 'dot.com' ventures...
- The Core's 'crown jewels' are the value-chain infrastructure technologies enabling its 'Small is Good' Business Web
- Squirrelfeeders.com's 'Small is Good' B-Web -- an elastic network distributed throughout the EZ/EC communities! (1 of 3)
- Squirrelfeeders.com's 'Small is Good' B-Web -- an elastic network distributed throughout the EZ/EC communities! (2 of 3)
- Squirrelfeeders.com's 'Small is Good' B-Web -- an elastic network distributed throughout the EZ/EC communities! (3 of 3)
- Squirrelfeeders.com's 'Small is Good' B-Web can elastically grow and shrink from a few to hundreds or more members
- Shamrock-nanocorp 'Small is Good' Business Webs have many of the same properties of the Internet itself
- Interested? Want to help build the Squirrelfeeders.com 'Small is Good' Business Web? Let's start talking...
- Shamrocks and Nanocorps: Sometimes the BIG solutions come in the small packages...
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Shamrocks and Nanocorps: Bridging the Digital Divide with 'Small is Good' Business Webs
No.4 in 'The Nanocorp Primer' - A self-education offering of Sohodojo, The Entrepreneurial Free Agent and .Dejobbed Small Business R&D Lab
By: Jim Salmons and Timlynn Babitsky
28 September 2000
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