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Improve your cashflow and business performance
Assess your business' performance. Assess and improve your business cashflow. Ensuring customers pay you on time. Recover your debts. Avoid insolvency. How to turn your business around.
SWOT, PESTLE and other models for strategic analysis
Introduction to the common business analysis models, including SWOT and PESTLE analysis, scenario planning and Porter's Five Forces framework
Deciding which key performance indicators to measure
Focus on the key drivers of your business to make your measurement and target-setting much more effective
Employee focused performance measurement
Tools and techniques to measure and manage your employee performance more effectively
Benchmark your business performance
Use benchmarking to measure your business performance against that of your competitors as a focus for your growth strategy
Set business performance targets
How to move from performance measurement to target-setting in order to help your business improve and grow
Use KPIs to assess business performance
How to select key performance indicators that are well-defined and quantifiable to measure your business performance
Customer focused performance measurement
How to gather and manage information to help your business attract, retain and sell to customers
Competitor analysis
Performance metrics you can use to analyse your competitors, and how to use this information to inform your business decisions
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.
Expert financial advice
Guides which can help your business to find the right financial advice for different common and specific issues.
Understanding customers in Great Britain
Understanding regional differences and identifying decision-makers
Assess the opportunity for exporting to Great Britain
Key sales opportunities in England, Scotland and Wales.
Sectoral opportunities in Great Britain
Find out the sectors that could offer opportunities for Northern Ireland businesses exporting to Great Britain.
Transport, logistics and infrastructure in Great Britain
Travel and shipping to GB, and taking advantage of the Internet
Marketing to customers in Great Britain
Identifying and selling to potential customers across GB
Grants and government support
Find and secure grants and government support to help start up and develop your business
Business banking
How to choose and manage a business bank account. Debit and credit cards for your business. Using payment cards to buy and sell goods or services. Accepting online payments. Foreign currency and exchange risks. ...
Insurance
Get the right insurance for your business. Insure your business and assets - general insurances. Insure your business - people, life and health. Liability insurance. Insurance for international trade. ...
Debt recovery
Ensuring customers pay you on time. Recover your debts. Calculate the interest due on an unpaid debt. Formal requests for payment: statutory demands. Get help and advice about your debt problems. Recover debt through court. ...