Is small a handicap?

That is the point I raised in a comment on the blog of my former Gartner colleague Carter Lusher. Then I see John Drovak raise questions about US CIO Vivek Kundra with (among other things) a skeptic tone that a company Vivek started had only one employee – himself.

As John Hagel says the world is moving to scalable networks of small suppliers with deep specialization. The average CIO spends 85% of his budget with vendors. That is a 1 to 6 leverage and that is the future of the industry – small teams which bring plenty of leverage.

I mean here is Carter, part of a 2 person firm whose clients are some of the biggest vendors in the industry. Here is John, a sole blogger, whose story no matter what you think of it got a reaction from the White House.

Talk about influence way beyond your small size. I am proud of their success, and hope they similarly are of other small businesses.