Achieving Prosperity Through Effective Collaborative Action

The magnitude of the results you get depends on the size of your belief.

    A significant increase in prosperity would be easy to achieve were it not so difficult to coordinate the activities of the many organizations and individuals who are responsible for the various elements of economic and social welfare.

    Business Growth Partners, Inc. has designed the Rapid Business Growth Initiative model to stimulate the formation, support and success of Gazelle companies, businesses that generate 75% or more of new jobs in any economy. The model can be effectively used to harness the resources of organizations in pursuing common economic prosperity goals. This web site has been established by Business Growth Partners, serving in part as an example, to promote cooperative , results-oriented action as a publicly accountable coordinating platform.

[For further information about our strategy, review the background papers, Rapid Business Growth Initiative and Enterprise Community Prosperity Model.]

Rapid Business Growth Initiative Goals

    The goals of the Rapid Business Growth Initiative are to:

1. Create a communications context and common understanding regarding the primary forces that bring about successful regional economic development and general prosperity.
2. Generate a common, general recognition among community, government and business leaders that:
   1. Successful economic development and prosperity will best happen by stimulating the formation of rapidly growing companies (referred to as Gazelles.)
   2. Rapidly growing companies are most effectively nurtured through strong, vibrant entrepreneurial cultures.
   3. Strong, vibrant entrepreneurial cultures are both a cause and result of strong, interactive communities.
   4. Strong, interactive communities can be created through concentrated effort and super-organization involving well-designed incentive and communications systems.
3. Develop a willingness and readiness among community, government and business leaders to support and coordinate organizational resources to rapidly implement a regional Action Plan conforming with the propositions of Objective 2.
4. Assist economic development agencies, business organizations and other interested parties in executing a "Rapid Business Growth Initiative" Action Plan in defined economic regions.
5. Establish implementation methods and processes to execute Rapid Business Growth Initiative Action Plans, using state-of-the-art information and communications technologies, including the Internet and extranets.
6. Execute the necessary coordination and research relating to implementation activities identified through Objectives 3 and 4.