Associates

Many people work in an environment that has become too volatile and too hostile for them to successfully operate in, in isolation.

Ironbark Country Associates become involved in many ways by:

• Providing additional capacity to develop and implement projects.
• Sharing and exchanging expert knowledge and information.
• Delivering more comprehensive resources to a situation, or project.
• Being part of a critical mass of resources to provide quicker responses.
• Reducing the cost structure in delivering services to projects.
• Enhancing marketing results through innovative use of experience and skills.
• Developing new ideas, products and services beyond an individual's capacity.
• Improving access to research and researchers.

Ironbark Country operates, as a Virtual Collaborative Organisation empowering and leveraging trusted relationships, drawing on and leveraging each other's strengths and resources.

The concept of Ironbark Country is an infinite number of Associates and organisations that work together with the ultimate in adaptability and flexibility, while still retaining their own identities.

People that cluster into groups will have a significant competitive advantage, which could simply mean survival.

Cost Sharing Resource Sharing Knowledge Sharing

Characteristics of Ironbark Country are significantly different from those found in traditional, hierarchical business support structures. There are several major characteristics that bind Ironbark Country people into an effective unit:

• We share similar values in a common culture of caring and sharing.
• There is a shared vision and a common air of can-do co-operation.
• Ability to maintain a low overhead structure, increasing competitiveness.
• Capacity to reach effectively into all corners of the market.
• Activities are clustered around core competencies.
• Greater access to new technologies and skills is achieved.
• Information and knowledge is freely shared throughout the trusted relationships, allowing us to make decisions more efficiently and effectively.
• Tasks are delegated when there is an overload, whenever economies of scale can be achieved, new conditions arise, or a specific competence is required.
• Activities that we consider non-core or non-strategic are outsourced.
• We are more in tune to generating quality opportunities.

Becoming an Associate

Ironbark County offers opportunities for the appropriate applicants to join in our quest to develop regional businesses and communities.

Affiliation is free, but is subject to acceptance by Ironbark Country and your acceptance of the terms and conditions. Ironbark Country's Resource Centre, which includes information, knowledge, tools and other products, is supplied at very competitive rates.

At times our clients seek funding. Ironbark Country is pleased to hear from Investors and Financiers who are interested in receiving details of opportunities.