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Is your business ready for a joint venture?
How to carry out a SWOT analysis for a potential strategic partnership and assess if you are ready to enter a joint venture.
Identify areas for improvement in your business
Get ready to tender for contracts by improving your business, identify areas for improvement and take action
Does my business need a consumer credit licence?
If you sell on credit, lend money, issue credit cards, collect debts or give debt advice, you may need a consumer credit licence to operate.
How to apply for a consumer credit licence
You can apply for consumer credit licensing from the Financial Conduct Authority who will assess your fitness on factors such as competence and past offences.
Grow your business successfully
How to identify and overcome the challenges and the pitfalls that you may encounter while growing your business
Implement changes to improve your business
Making the right changes to your business to improve prospects when competing for contracts and preparing to tender
Best practice in employment and improving skills
Improve your chances of winning contract work by developing your staff and using best practice in employment when preparing to tender
Improve health and safety in your business
Set high standards in health and safety to compete successfully for contract work when preparing your business to tender
Demonstrate good environmental compliance
Show your environmental credentials to become a more attractive business to contractors in Northern Ireland when preparing your business for tender
Compliance and regulatory risk
How to identify and manage compliance and regulatory risks in your business
Risk management
Introduction to the risk management process and the steps to help you identify, manage and minimise risk in your business
Find contracts and tender successfully
Put your business in the best position to find and win tender competitions in Northern Ireland, Great Britain, Republic of Ireland and the EU
Skills required by growing businesses
How the complexity and variety of skills your business needs to access increase as your business grows.
Building a management team
Key considerations when building an effective management team for your business.
How to grow your business
Guidance to help you explore the different ways of growing your business, such as franchising or buying another business, increasing your sales and market share, achieving efficiencies to boost profits or using IP to grow
Operational risk
Understand the sources of operational risk and how to minimise the impact of operational problems in your business
Types of risk your business faces
Understand the main types of business risk - what they mean and how they can affect your business
Strategic risk
What is strategic risk management and how to identify and mitigate strategic risks in your business
Evaluate business risks
Risk evaluation helps you determine the importance of each risk to the business and decide whether to take action
Prevent and reduce business risk
Reducing risk to business involves putting in place processes and methods to deal with the consequences of an adverse event