ABSTRACT
This chapter brings together the responses to key questions posed by the work and key learning points which emerged. It explains what occurred and what people learned as a summary, of how organisations' current models were selected; what these were; their adequacy in meeting current and future challenges. The chapter shows how useful they found the models; and the outcomes' of this work against its claims, so far. It presents some implications of small business theory for participant organisations. The established organisations accepted the challenges and identified their next stage of development, how to activate this through changed models, and integrate this into new business planning. The start-up explicitly chose its business model and refined this in practice, while the thinking needed for progressive management and learning models is explicitly implicit', available as a resource once they begin doing business.
