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Copyright for your business
What is copyright, how to use this legal right to protect your creative work and what to do if someone violates it
Protecting your intellectual property abroad
Understand how to secure and enforce your intellectual property rights internationally, and register your patents, trade marks and designs overseas
Manage your research, design and development
How to manage your design, research and development projects to adapt to customers' changing requirements
Make best use of standards
Introduction to the different technical, management and best practice standards, and their benefits to your business
Use innovation to start or grow your business
What is innovation and why should new and existing businesses innovate in order to increase their efficiency and profitability
Find support for inventors
Support and advice for inventors and businesses developing innovative ideas, products and technologies in Northern Ireland
Project management templates and tools
Find project management sample documents and templates, including project scope, project plan and risk register templates.
Advantages of project management
Discover how project management methods and strategies can help you reduce risk, cut costs and improve success rates.
Thinking about growing your business (video)
Short video tutorial covering some important points to consider before growing or improving your business.
Project management
Introduction to project management, the different methodologies, processes and stages, and benefits to your business.
Is my business ready to grow?
Common reasons why you may want to grow your business and how to tell if you're ready to expand.
Types of business growth: rapid and organic
There are many different ways to grow your business, and at different paces - some strategies are riskier than others.
Avoid problems during business growth
Common issues that businesses often face during growth, and tips for overcoming these difficulties through proper planning and management.
Business growth implications
Growth can have many implications for your business - it will affect your premises, equipment, staff and IT systems.
What is a quality management system?
Different types of quality management systems, their core elements and purpose, and how to choose the right quality approach for your business.
Quality management standards
Overview of the quality management systems, the ISO 9001 standard, benefits to your business and steps to ISO implementation and certification.
Business growth planning
What is a growth plan, how to plan for business growth or expansion, and what to include in the growth plan document.
Benefits of ongoing business planning
The importance of business planning and its role in securing funding, allocating resources and aligning business goals to strategy.
Business plans for each department
How to create a business growth plan that incorporates objectives for individual departments within your business.
Use a business plan to allocate resources effectively
How to use your business plan to identify resources you will need to meet your objectives and grow your business.