The light in my cube

Micro versus macro businesses

What if everybody did a microISV and nobody was available to work for large organizations. What if every individual was a business entity. Well in a perfect world, people would work towards a common cause and build airports, skyscrapers, malls, we would have a perfect eco-system. But seriously not everybody's personal goals and thoughts align towards common goals. The very idea of running a micro business is the ability to think and act on your own. So does that mean we should never have large projects at all? So how did the GNU and Linux movement fall into place to build a complete operating system. A lot of Ifs and Buts is what we have out there.

We do need macro businesses to pull of large projects, personally I do enjoy strolling through a large mall and eying all the fancy products out there. These kind of projects would never happen 'easily' in a micro business driven environment. But there is a time and place for macro and micro businesses. Micro businesses are lean and offer an advantage of nimbleness, especially useful when trying out new things that demand an ability to adapt quickly. But take a look at a large airport project, you wouldn't be changing the runway plans on t-10 days, you wouldn't change the passenger lounge overnight, Its mostly about making minor modifications, this is where macro businesses excel. What I'm driving at is that macro businesses and large projects are a necessary evil to accomplish large tasks. For an individual who feels out of place in a macro model, its mostly the need to control the creativity and tweak every little thing, like work hours, need for money and the kick of doing the right things, These things can best be done in a micro model. The micro model is small enough to be tweaked at every little place by a single individual and at the same time powerful enough to accomplish fairly complex projects. In short do your right thing as a micro business, and if it works well, it will evolve into a macro biz. But remember the rules when the transition happens.

To be continued...

posted by Girish Bellalcheru @ 1:47 AM