Assessing current performance
- Assess your business’ performance
- Measure performance and set targets
- Deciding whether to grow
- Identifying, protecting and transferring your assets
Setting a vision for growth
- Assess your options for growth
- Strategic planning
- Prepare a business plan for growth
- Create an action plan to successfully grow your business
- The challenges of growing a business – and how to meet them
- The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise
- Importance of knowledge management to a growing business
- Best practice
- Make best use of standards
- Quality management standards
- Corporate social responsibility
- How to grow your franchise
Planning how to grow
- Project management – the basics
- Increase your market share
- Developing new business ideas
- Exploiting your ideas commercially
- Increase your profitability
- Spotting market opportunities
- Competing in markets dominated by big brands
- Buy an existing business
- Turn your business into a franchise
- Planning for e-commerce
Financing growth
- Identify the right finance options for your business
- Use your business plan to get funding
- Equity finance
- Factoring and invoice discounting: the basics
- Floating on the stock market
- Shares and shareholders
- Business support finder
- Joint ventures and partnering
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Bank finance
Growth through product and service development
- Research and develop your business ideas, new products and services
- Manage your research, design and development
- Market research and market reports
- Use innovation to start or grow your business
- Manufacturing innovation
- Get patent protection for your business
- Support networks and facilities for innovation and R&D
- The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise
Growth through sales
- Increase your market share
- Market research and market reports
- Understand your competitors
- Identify potential sales channels
- Choose and manage a commercial agent
- Reach your customers effectively
- Create your marketing strategy
- Overview on selling to government
- Retain and grow your customer base
- Tender for a contract
Growth through technology
- Planning for e-commerce
- Create an online shop
- Develop an e-marketing plan
- Generate business from your e-marketing plan
- Web 2.0: a guide for business
- Cloud computing
- Search engine optimisation
- Pay per click advertising
- Online business networking and social networking
Growth through strategic sourcing
- Choosing the right suppliers
- Negotiate the right deal with suppliers
- Manage your suppliers
- Manage overseas suppliers
- Outsourcing
Growth through strategic partnering
Suppliers: overview of tendering for contracts
- Find government opportunities, tenders and contracts on Contracts Finder
- Overview on selling to government
- Tendering for a public sector contract in the construction sector
- Transparency in government procurement and contracting
- Tender for a contract
- Price lists, estimates, quotations and tenders
- Tendering for public sector contracts in Europe
Buyers: publish tender documents
- Publish opportunities, tenders and contract documents on Contracts Finder
- Transparency in government procurement and contracting
Growth through international trade
- Exporting – an overview
- Preparing to export
- Use design to improve your export potential
- Intellectual property protection overseas
- Are you ready to import?
- Manage overseas suppliers
- The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise
Growing your business into Europe
- Understanding the European market
- Complying with European law
- Doing business in Europe
Leading staff through growth
- Taking on staff – the options
- Reorganisations, restructurings and other major changes
Managing risk
- Managing risk
- Crisis management and business continuity planning
- Business continuity and risk assessment
- Identifying, protecting and transferring your assets
- Manage the risks of exporting
- Manage the risks of importing
- IT risk management
- Assess and minimise your IT risks
- Business insurance: the basics
- Knowing when and how to stop growing your business
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