Sometime back, Prabhath directed me towards an interesting and very thought provoking article – Small is the new big. An interesting read that makes very succinctly clear the advantages of being a small company.

Well, my association with the Vesess Web Design team has shown me the truth of this situation. Having a small, multi-skilled team works out in so many ways for the organization, as well as its clients.

Everyone has a clearly defined responsibility which they have to fulfil. But when it comes to skills, everyone develops a multitude of them. We all discuss what we’re doing – so we collectively learn from each other. In this way, while we individually specialize in our particular fields, we obtain a better understanding of how we can perform best as a team. The better we function as a team, the better our service.

Further, there’s the cost component – being small means lesser costs. Lesser costs for us means lesser costs for our clients.

Then there’s the advantage that comes from being a close-knit team. Bureaucracy doesn’t even come into the picture. Decisions can be made quickly and acted upon almost immediately.

So it’s really no great surprise that some of the best up-and-coming companies out there are built on the “small is big” idea. I like to think of it in terms of Velociraptors – small, agile (and vicious) dinosaurs who, by acting as a team turned out to be some of the most effective hunters of their time.