"These two questions are the fundamental questions in strategy.  How can you understand your industry and your competitive environment, and how can you understand how to position your company within that environment? "

Michael Porter - Harvard Business School

"The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage"

Peter Senge - Soceity for Organizational Learning

"Small businesses have great potential for global business growth, and finding new customers overseas can help grow your business and create new jobs in your community"

US Trade Representative Ron Kirk

How ready are small and medium businesses to enter and compete in the global market?

What is the Global Mindset Inventory of the small and medium business? 

Are the small and medium business leaders being coached to prepare for a global mindset?

“Companies that are breaking the mold are moving beyond corporate social responsibility to social innovation. These companies are the vanguard of the new paradigm.

They view community needs as opportunities to develop ideas and demonstrate business technologies, to find and serve new markets, and to solve longstanding business problems.”

Rosabeth Moss Kanter - Harvard Business Review